Drug use & abuse : characteristic of the Age of Kali.

 

• People will become addicted to intoxicating drinks and drugs, human beings will behave like asses.

Source : https://chopra.com/blogs/meditation/a-vedic-journey-through-no-time-chapter-5-kali-yuga-the-age-of-ignorance-and-hope

Kṣamā, tolerance or forgiveness, is diminishing as well, because there is no practical method by which people can purify themselves and thus become free of envy. Unless one is purified by chanting the holy names of the Lord in an authorized program of spiritual improvement, the mind will be overwhelmed by anger, envy and all sorts of small-mindedness. Thus dayā, mercy, is also decreasing. All living beings are eternally connected by their common participation in the divine existence of God. When this existential oneness is obscured through atheism and agnosticism, people are not inclined to be merciful to one another; they cannot recognize their self-interest in promoting the welfare of other living beings. In fact, people are no longer even merciful to themselves: they systematically destroy themselves through liquor, drugs, tobacco, meat-eating, sexual promiscuity and whatever other cheap gratificatory processes are available to them.

Source : https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/12/2/1/