Lean with it...

When it comes to “Drugs” and altering the state of a person’s mind, people are coming up with some ridiculous ways to do so.  One of the newest trends is called Lean.  Lean was created and first done in Houston, Texas and is a mixture of things that a person drinks in order to alter their state of mind.  The way people make it is by mixing Promethazine with Codeine cough syrup and adding Sprite soda and Jolly Rancher candies to it for flavor.  The mixture is then usually poured into a Styrofoam cup and drank.  “Lean” is often referred to as Purple Drank or Sizzurp.

The drink is referred to as Lean because of the effects the Codeine cough syrup causes when people drink it and make themselves stay up.  The Codeine causes a euphoric feeling in the user and the Promethazine in the drink is responsible for lethargy, extreme drowsiness, a severe impairment of motor skills, and a dissociative feeling from all other parts of the body, mainly the stomach and digestive system.  People who drink it tend to just sit around, not move very much, and literally lean against things in order to stand up because of a loss of motor skills.  It is referred to as “Purple Drank” because of the purple or dark purple color it gets from the cough syrup and it’s referred to as Sizzurp because of the syrup in it. 

To me, the crazy thing is no matter what the government decides to ban or make illegal, people are still going to find ways to get high or to alter their consciousness.  New things are being mixed together by people who most likely have no idea what they’re doing and when they do figure something out it spreads like crazy.  This is pretty dangerous and it’s kind of insane that it’s come down to kid drinking cough syrup to get high.  What will they think of next?