Very few similarities, actually. John was a brilliant engineer with massive success and accomplishments who was set up by the US government when he was vulnerable, failing at his lifelong dream. John made things that were bought and sold and treasured, not just in movies or in museums. Wes was a lazy, narcissistic con man who produced nothing but a bunch of pinheads who would like to give him the ultimate wedgie, not to mention the possibility he may have caused a few fatal overdoses. Sorry, but the two scenarios are completely different.
Quoted from Noahs_Arcade:Never really understood the whole synthetic drug craze. Is it cheaper, or what? It certainly can't be the accessibility
First of all, most street drugs are synthetic. Meth would seriously not exist if there weren't manufacturers turning out enormous quantities of precursors that aren't needed on the legitimate market. These are simply organic compounds not currently scheduled. Check out the books Alexander Shulgin and his wife were writing 20-25 years ago and you'll realize that there are thousands of these compounds already documented. It was only a matter of time before enterprising chemists realized that flipping a methyl ring here and there would change the legality but not the effect of a molecule. Secondly, street drugs tend to be wildly inconsistent in potency. Consumers are trained to trust the packaging more than the contents, so they gladly hand over cash at the haji-mart before they stray into the rougher parts of town - even if half-wits like Wes are ultimately responsible for the QC they assume was involved. And the home run on the deal is that if you're a fiend and staying ahead of the trends, you don't have to break any laws to get your gear.
Lawmakers can't keep up and as Dennis Miller famously opined, you could remove all the intoxicants from the earth and people would still spin around in circles until they fell down dizzy in the yard thinking they'd met god.
TL;DR: Wes is a puppet himself with a Chinese chemist's hand up his ass.
That's good practice; if you get infected by a browser hijacker that prevents you from accessing the tools you need to fix it, just use a different browser. Also one could theoretically configure one of those browsers to automatically clear the cache every time you're done using it for nefarious purposes while the rest stay legit.