Something motivated her to experiment with a lot of substances, some mind altering and some highly addictive. Some I tried with her. And some she increased her

volume & frequency

of use on her own.

so my problem is when I’m crushing pills I can never get a fine powder…

What was the USA doing during this time you ask? Coinciding with the industrial revolution, the first years of our country experienced rapid economic expansion. Manufacturing, particularly of textiles, was mechanized through factory production.

Although, funny thing, we were an agrarian economy rather than an industrial one.

This owed in no small part to our

peculiar domestick institution

of course that we didn’t get around to abolishing until our next phase in addiction.

and even when you get a fine powder, how big do you make the line? straw or dollar? benjamin perhaps? I say you gotta go with those foreign currencies, there’s a reason they’re plastic

Yes, Franklin himself testified to the land speculators of the frontiers.

Perhaps it was the

risk-taking

of youth, buying stuff of questionable quality from shady characters;