Blog 7 for Always Running

In the novel, Always Running by Luis J Rodriguez is about the author's life as he lives through the gang days in LA. One of the conflicts that the author faced was drug abuse and drug use. During that time Luis and all of his friends would do drugs, their most common way of getting their high was spraying an aerosol can into an enclosed bag and would cover their mouths and noses and then would inhale all the fumes. Doing this would damage their minds and literary eat their brains. Although the dangerous side effects Luis, and his friends would use the drug to escape the harsh reality that is their life. The author even explained that the spray would allow him to see things differently and would let him let loose. Then he explains that he becomes water with the spray, which one could see it as him becoming relieved, loose, stress-free, and relaxed. But as each time that he does this he comes really close to over dosing, once he does this his friends take the bag away from him and tell him to go home. Later one of his girlfriends would join him to inhale the spray, but after they both would partake in lewd and explicit activities.