The world of Cartel Babies is set in Sinaloa, México but the story it touches runs through almost every city on earth. Long before a pickup blocks a highway or a lab hums in the mountains, something older is already in motion: the natural urge to change how we feel.
Humans reach for stimulants, depressants, and escapes of every kind. Not only fentanyl or meth—but also alcohol, marijuana, caffeine, energy drinks, prescription pills, performance enhancers, mood stabilizers, and sleep aids. These substances live in bedrooms, gyms, boardrooms, and backpacks. They have been with us for thousands of years.
And it is not just us.
Across the animal kingdom, creatures pursue altered states with a clarity that surprises most people:
Bumblebees become intoxicated on fermented nectar, returning disoriented to the hive.
Porpoises and dolphins carefully pass around pufferfish, seeking low-dose neurotoxin euphoria.
Tasmanian wallabies eat opium poppies until they wobble in circles.
Mountain goats and bighorn sheep scrape hallucinogenic lichens off cliff faces to chase the chemical high.
Birds gorge on fermented berries until they stagger and fall from branches.
Primates consume overripe, alcohol-rich fruit with unmistakable intent.
The instinct to alter consciousness—to escape, soothe, elevate, distract, or explore—is ancient. It predates cartels, laws, nations, and even humanity itself.
This hub is not here to judge users or moralize about “good” and “bad” drugs. It is here to widen the frame. Because if there were no hunger—no pain to numb, no boredom to escape, no pressure to survive, no curiosity to feel different—there would be no market. Cartels are not the origin of the problem; they are one visible expression of a universal human and animal behavior.
Instead of simple answers, this space asks harder questions:
What happened upstream of the person who started using?
When does coping turn into dependence?
Who profits from our hunger for stimulants, and who pays the real price?
How do choices made in one neighborhood echo into another, thousands of miles away?
What does it mean that the same drive exists in us… and in bees, dolphins, goats, primates, and other species?
Cartel Babies follows one captive and one child inside a Sinaloa camp.
Behind every convoy and camp in the novel is that same demand—spread across cities, countries, and lives that will likely never going to see a mountain in Sinaloa.
This companion hub steps back from that single story to look at the wider fabric—the demand, the instinct, the systems, and the biological truth that when the novel ends, the world of drugs and escape is still all around us.
Within the EvØ-Myth Universe™, this is one of the places where evolution meets soul—and where a world saturated with demand tests what creation, and the people inside it, can endure.