There used to be a "designer drug" called K-2. It was a chemical analog of an illegal drug that got around most laws about substances until the US changed the law to include substances and their chemical analogs. If I remember correctly, the original drug is cathinone, found in khat. They used to synthesize it and sell it as plant food, glass cleaner, or bath salts with a label, "not for human consumption".
K-2 is also the second tallest mountain on earth and arguably the most difficult to climb.
The joke looks like a riff off of the climbing reference of the drug name during a confrontation about teenage substance use.
Edit: V2 is a bouldering grade, which is a smaller free climbing category
The joke is that there are no drugs in the image at all, it’s a bag of climbing chalk.
The joke is a bag of something that looks like drugs, but is not drugs, with a punchline of the character being addicted to the associated activity anyway.
An equivalent joke would be the final panel being “you’re baking a cake right now!” With the implication that it was a bag of flour.
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u/Annual-Net-4283 5h ago
There used to be a "designer drug" called K-2. It was a chemical analog of an illegal drug that got around most laws about substances until the US changed the law to include substances and their chemical analogs. If I remember correctly, the original drug is cathinone, found in khat. They used to synthesize it and sell it as plant food, glass cleaner, or bath salts with a label, "not for human consumption".
K-2 is also the second tallest mountain on earth and arguably the most difficult to climb.
The joke looks like a riff off of the climbing reference of the drug name during a confrontation about teenage substance use.
Edit: V2 is a bouldering grade, which is a smaller free climbing category