[friedrichanton]

The farming thing can't possibly be true.

One common thread in all of these articles is the concentration on side effects that are either rare or only occur with extreme overdoses and teens who do idiotic things that are beyond belief. The kids in the articles always do the stupidest things. It's like watching Jerry Springer and asking someone to believe that that is what normal people are like. I like to believe that most teens have a little more common sense. You can still do stupid things with drugs and not go to nearly the extreme these articles describe. I would be more worried about a kid taking dxm at a party and forcing himself to drive home because he was afraid to let anyone know he was intoxicated than I would worry about a bunch of kids sitting around a bowl of grandma's blood pressure medicine daring each other to take one and see what it will do.