Those among us who've been paying any attention at all the past several months have heard about "lean", or "purple drank": a concoction of juice (or some such thing), candy (or one or another specified variety), and cough syrup.
The big deal is of course the codeine in the cough syrup.
...Except that over-the-counter cough syrup doesn't contain codeine. It's made with dextromethorphan. Which is also an abusable drug, apparently, but a hallucinogen (in huge doses) rather than a narcotic.
So when someone suggests that a certain angelic teenager had procured a beverage and a package of candy with the intent of making a narcotic concoction with OTC Robitussin...?
Yeah, well. It's entirely possible that's what the kid was planning on doing; there's certainly ample misinformation out there*. And maybe he was going to drink enough DXM to get the hallucinogenic effects.
But please don't go believing, nor repeating the notion, that he was actually going to transform DXM into codeine.
* Probably even more misinformation than we used to see in rec.pyrotechnics back in the day.
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