[Moltke]

How does diluting cough syrup with soda turn it into a powerful drug?

[wbill]

How does diluting cough syrup with soda turn it into a powerful drug ...doesn't turn it into a more powerful drug, it just makes the cough syrup more palatable.

Kids always think that they're the 1st to discover something, but this isn't a new concept. When I was in college 20(cough5) years ago, I knew a couple of kids that would get a codiene high by drinking cough syrup. They called it "going Rob-ing" (with a long 'o'). Apparently it was a good, cheap, and legal high, but the aftereffects (constipation from the codiene) were unpleasant.

[lacrew]

They’re just taking an extraordinarily large dose of cough syrup...and using the supersweet drink and candy to make it palatable.

[circlecity]

"How does diluting cough syrup with soda turn it into a powerful drug?"

The high comes from slamming the entire bottle of syrup, the sode is so you can it get down cuz it taste's nasty. As noted above, I remember back in college kids were doing this, it's nothing new.