A chemist once told me the two paths that bring people into chemistry are learning how to blow shit up and how to get high.
But yes, regardless of those two it should be easy to frame it as a magical adventure.
But yes, regardless of those two it should be easy to frame it as a magical adventure.
There was one guy in my class that we all pegged as a recreational pharmacologist within the first week or two of freshman year. He's a good chemist; if he offered me something, I'd trust that it was both pure and exactly what he said it was.