The Increasing Use Of Street Drugs In today's society the use of street drugs is much greater than thirty or forty years ago. Cocaine, speed, heroine and marijuana (more commonly known as pot) are the most common drugs of the nineties. One week ago I picked up a bag of speed in the parking lot of Stater Brothers. Is this normal? Can anything change society from getting worse than it already is? The availability of drugs is a power struggle that unfortunately will not ever diminish. Power struggle to me is the battle between law enforcement and the criminals. Regardless of how criminals may feel, street drugs are illegal. Unfortunately in today's society, drugs can