Medically, the drug can lead to a heart attack, kidney damage or kidney failure. It can quickly raise body temperature to dangerous levels.
Why the hell would anyone even think about this crap? You'd do better snorting arsenic with a strychnine chaser. Some people are just stupid.
Because many people feel hopeless and want to escape reality any way possible. And prohibition/taxes makes safer drugs FAR more expensive.
Why spend $50 on cocaine or $20 on booze when $5 of this stuff makes you forget your problems just the same?
Even if we magically succesfully outlawed every drug, these people would be frying their brains huffing road tar. Or even fermenting their own feces.
They’re sick and need mental help. Prison and restrictions on the freedoms of healthy people is NOT a solution to their illness