weed wafted onto center stage from 1992 to 1997, and ecstasy brought hip-hop into a new millennium from 1997 to 2002, and so on, until we get to today’s aesthetic anesthetic: fentanyl.

I’m Tragically Hip,'” which he delivered with a dazed smirk. “On Gord’s part, it was probably a response to the nerves, to the weed, and to the very fact that he just repeated the last ...