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Drugs

Legal

Most drugs are allowed so long as they don't hurt anyone as it's to much trouble to try and restrict them all, thus most blends of alchol, marijuana, tabaco, and various other 'earth' drugs who's side affects are not to exstream and the damage done to the body is not anything that can't easily be repaired by a doctor.   Olumpus Gonge - A popular mage drug that is a hybric of marijuana and a mushroom that grows in the ashes of Olympus Mons infused with magic that was created through life magics to force a normally impossible hybridization to create a form of marijuana with traits from the mushroom. The end result is a potent drug that induces relaxation, trance like states, and pleasant hallucinations. Cost for this can start from 3kc a gram and range to 30kc a gram.   Sprite - Part 1 of a group of drugs created by a rather odd Virtual Adept with a taste for hallucinogenics and 'OLD - old school' video games. This comes in the form of a canned fluid that when drunk induces hallucinations where the user see's everything in the form of sprites. Newer 'brands' offer various graphic sylizations and change the way you hear things too. The more one consumes the longer the effect lasts and the lower the resolution of there vision drops, the drug seams to have built in low end limit of "8-bit graphics" though to prevent any accidents. Though this has still caused a few from people dumb enough to think they can still operate complicated machinery while all a bit. This is rather standardized and cheep at 500c a can and can some times be found cheaper, however taking stuff past its date can lead to some weird 'glitches'.   Rejuvenate - Distilled version of an unknown fluid from parts unknown, and a highly guarded secret of Shinkoto Industries. When used properly the treatments from this drug can reduce the age of a person and extend there life space to 300~500 years with regular treatments. Rumors of some finding ways to make this work longer abound of course. Treatment to reduce the age can range from 1Mc to 30Mc depending on the age of the subject. life extension treatment tends to cost between 75kc to 100kc a month depending on the individual.  

Restricted or illegal on most planets

  This includes Various 'earth' drugs that are dangerous or deadly to use even once or a few times or are instantly chemically addictive, as well as magically enhanced versions of other drugs that when amplified by magic fall under that specification. Other drugs just do morally unacceptable things like ruffies and other date-rape drugs (see bad date bellow) or have long lasting affects that are hard for even mages to get rid of (see Pigment).   Titanian Honey - While using bee's to pollinate some of the rare samples they managed to steal away from Titan they found that there honey had an odd affect of physically transporting people into there dreams. Rather if is the odd flowers or having the means of altering the bee's to survive in a methane biased environment, or a combination of the two... the end result is unexplained... but highly profitable. The drug is rare and costly due to the means of it's production, but in wider and wider use. However many planets are trying to crack down on it's use due to the dangers involved. There are some blinds that are especially strong and have been rumored to result in one way trips or bringing something back with you, and being physically in a dream means what ever happens there can really affect you... though the affect seams to be lessened in most cases. Overuse may lead to "honey-mazing", where the user's body returns from the dream before his or her mind does. The drug makes the value of flowers from titan so high that people are willing to risk death on the planet's surface to try and obtain them. The drug starts at around 10kc per 1ml and the standard dosage is 10ml.   Joy Pad – Part 2 of a group of drugs created by the same guy who created Sprite. It causes hallucinations where the user’s life becomes a video game to him/her, complete with power-ups and everything. Due to the unpredictability of this drug it is most often illegal or restricted to controlled environments as people have been known to get lost into violent ‘games’… thankfully the hallucinations are only based off live stimuli when available and if locked in a room alone someone on joy pad can generally run the course of the drug without endangering anyone. While new versions with genre’s programed into the drug are available, they are mixed up with the old drug and drug dealers aren’t the most reliable people. Until the old drugs are off the market it’s unlikely the more controlled version will be legalized. There is a growing love for this drug though and it comes in many forms, however due to the complete lack of any regulations and the creators 'freeware' packaging of the technology involved anyone can create there own version and getting it under control is quite a hard prospect. A few companies have tried to produce a standardize and controlled "Safe" Joy Pad but are always drastically undersold by the 'freeware' competition. You can get your hands on Joy Pad in many forms for around 1~15kc a dose depending how long you want it to last, or 10~25kc a dose of the "safe" version.   1-up - The last part of the group of drugs created by the producer of Joy Pad and works in turn with that drug. When used with Joy Pad, 1-up 'saves' the aspects of the hallucinations into the users brain so the next time the user takes Joy Pad there hallucinations will pick up where they they came down off the last dose, 1-up can be taken at any time during a Joy Pad trip. It works by creating cysts in the tissue of the brain however that brake open in the presence of Joy Pad, and while cysts are normally harmless forming in the wrong place can lead to a grate deal of problems. The drug is suppose to prevent the cysts from forming in known places, but what about unknown places? More tests need to be done and not everyone is convinced this is ready to be on the market.... that and Joy Pad is not legal everywhere yet anyway. 1-up goes for 5kc almost everywhere as people know how desperate people can be to pick up where they left off.... price shoots up dramatically if your on Joy Pad and it's wearing off, go figure.   Bliss - A synthetic drug made to induce a state of peace and serenity, while removing all fears. There are no real drawbacks to this drug save the physiological effects and the dilemmas it presents. It is quite usefully for people who are afraid of gate travel or space travel in general, as well as therapy, however the ethical concerns and rampant abuse due to physiological dependency on the drug has keep it heavily restricted or out right Illegal in most places. Bliss goes for about 2kc a cup.   Tripwire - Hallucinogen simulator used by people with brain implants and by mechanical/AI based constructs. The limits of what Tripwire can be programed for are quite limitless, however the chips they take the form of are quite standardized now and hard to tell apart from each other and ones that overstimulate or draw to much power from the systems can cause damage to implants or nueral pathways when they are not well fabricated, over powered, the wrong type, or they burn out. All in all making them increasingly less safe to use. Particularly as newer more powerful versions of Tripwire come out and are attempted by older implants/constructs. The price points really depend on how new the chip is and what they offer. Various 'artist' work can fetch a very very high price.  

Universally Illegal

Generally any drug that can be instantly fatal, drugs that do serious long term harm to the body that is hard to fix, poisons, or those that later life patterns (as they lead to pattern leakage and can be addictive). These highly illegal substances will not have a listed price as they can fluctuate greatly.   Bad Date - This one was created with a mage with a sick mind and weakens the composer and resolve of those who take it. Depending on how well the victim can resist the affects the results can vary. While there are many people who would take such a drug willingly, it is still highly ilegal in mane places due to those that use it for darker purposes. The possible affects vary from one mix to another and effectiveness on an individual can include arousal, being more open to suggestions, mental regression, drowsiness, submissiveness to strangers, and an inability to identify people correctly.   Blood Honey - A little known strain of Titanian Honey, very little is known about the substance due to the fact that it's very existence was well suppressed for the longest of times, and attempts to suppress it still go on if it actual exists because few people talk about it and finding entries on the intersphere is hard. Whispers of it's existance are out and around though, but no one is really sure what exactly it is or dose due to the lack of knowledge.... only that it is EXSTREAMLY illegal, EXSTREAMLY valuable, and 'blood' red.   Frozen Sun - A dark crystalline substance that usually takes a form looking like red salt. It is derived from a strange plant that grows in the clouds of Venus, it's fruit produces the substance to entice creatures living in the clouds to eat the fruit taking int the seeds to transport them, and kill them to provide the nutrients for the seeds. The affects are intense pleasure through out the entire nervous system and it is IMMEDIATELY addictive almost always as the substances replaces various natural substances in the body, withdraw is excruciatingly painful and depending on the dose can cause body parts to shut down leading to death even from the first time. Many people in rehab are forced to stay on full life support there entire life time as there life patterns are irreparably damaged. It is said that an addict will gladly sell everything he or she owns, along with all body parts beyond the minimum needed to inject the drug, for his or her next dose. There has been an attempt to drive the plant responsible to extinction as synthesizing the substance is extremely hard. Venus government has a bounty placed on any ships to be gunned down that are producing it and even rumors say they have looked the other way for civilian casualties on said ships a few times. Thankfully it is more than just the air and something in the atmosphere of Venus that allows it to grow and while there are some rumors that air taken from the psychical Venus works in enclosed spaces on the Spiritual/dimensionaly shifted Venus... no one found any of these 'Jungle Sun' Greenhouses.   Pigment (AKA Black Heroin, Black-H) - A designer mage drug that is cheap to make and easy to obtain, especial on Earth, and is quickly becoming Earth's drug of choice. Effects of pigment on the body include mild hallucinations, ecstasy, sexual arousal... and most unusually.. the ability to see, hear, and talk to ghosts. It can be smoked, injected swallowed (in the form of pills or vials of liquid), or administered in a tattoo patch, in witch case it becomes known as a piggyback. Pigment can also be used to assist in astral projection and mostly used by amateurs without access to other, safer projecting drugs. It is highly addictive in any form. Worst of all The ghost of former pigment addicts who took large quantities of the drug or died from an overdose become are known as Hues. In addition to weird stains and coloration Hues tend to be weaker than regular ghosts, and still carry cravings for the drug in death leading Hues to trying to possess users of Pigment quite often making use of the drug more and more dangerous the more people become Hues. There however seam to be rituals involving ritualistic scar tattoo's and pigment in large qualities that are rumored to give lasting powers to people..... but is it really worth it to risk becoming a Hue.   Sublime - Sublime acts like a much stronger version of Bliss, leaving people caring about nothing not even there own survival or doing even moving... they tend to just competently zone out losing all sense of self and time. While the affects on a person are only dangerous in the lack of will to do anything that is required to keep themselves alive or protect themselves from harm, it his the side affects of withdraw that make it universally highly illegal. While many of the apathetic and bliss like affects of the drug continue well after it wares off the affects of withdraw start to add massive levels of aggression. With the same affects of bliss, heavy aggression, and a growing need for more sublime the users turn into violent, fearless, and heartless killers that will do whatever it takes to get more sublime caring nothing for the lives of themselves or others. It's no wonder most seam to think this is a drug cooked up in a lab some where to create an army.... but if it is no one seams to be doing anything with there army of wackos other than letting them run lose on the outer planets. Whats stranger is while bliss is a synthetic drug, this seams to be a naturally produced prodigy..... which begs the question did some one make a construct to secrete this stuff, and why?1?     Celestial Drugs - In the upper spiritual realms exists the conceptualization of many plants that drugs are harvested from, as well as the concepts of the various drugs themselves. Partaking of them in mental or spiritual form is said to be quite the experiences. However for those few that find ways to physically transport there body into the higher realms these substances are quite dangerous in such a pure metaphysical idealized form and many are quite deadly. They also exist sometimes in godly realms, however in these personal realms if you are offered some you are often protected from any harmful affects as well by the gods. Transporting these substances into the middle realms is considered highly iligal. They are often easy to identify having strange unearthly qualities to them though, so accidental dosing is uncommon. While the blessed by the gods, and taken from there realm as a gift are quite safe, there is little way of telling them apart from those taken from other higher realms.  

Designer Mage Drugs

While many of the drugs above started as designer drugs, it's important to state that nearly any drug imaginable can be produced with true magic, and there are many places set up to create these drugs on request. However many run a legitimate business and will not work with anything too shady, but some will. Still it's a profitable business and here are some common types.   Toxin-Filtering Suppresses - Many constructs, and several supernatural beings are unable to fill the affects of most drugs, rather than resorting to harsher and unsafe drugs they can be given drugs that temporarily weaken bodies ability to filter and processed these drugs allowing them to enjoy them. For constructs it's rather easy and many can just switch this on and off or take a standardized drug, however other beings need to have drugs tailored to there bodies.   Memetic Drugs and Viruses -

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