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re: Whatever happened to Quaaludes?
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:39 pm to Rebel
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:39 pm to Rebel
quote:This is true. They raided a lot of places trying to get rid of them. The South Africa story was really interesting. The scientists were trying to make it an airborne delivery system to spray on the public to keep them from rioting and what not.
They were banned in the US in the early 80’s.
People still got them in Mexico for awhile. But I believe they are banned there too.
If you get a chance, check out the Hamilton's Pharmacopeia episode on the South African quaalude.
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Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:39 pm to OK Samaritan
Xanax* FFS
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:39 pm to LSU Wayne
I think Quaaludes are still around, just that the people that can get them don't talk about it.
You mean to tell me they can clone a monkey, but not produce 70s pharm technology?
You mean to tell me they can clone a monkey, but not produce 70s pharm technology?
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:41 pm to High C
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Xanax* FFS
pretty sure it's xanex, but we can agree to disagree.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:41 pm to StealthCalais11
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^Someone partied
I did. My first year at Ohio State was forgettable (or was it forgotten?). When I look back at some of the things I did I'm surprised that I survived.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:41 pm to VABuckeye
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Quaaludes would frick you up beyond all recognition.
You got that right, remember green and red palcidyl's?
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:41 pm to CaptainPanic
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quote:
It was just a barbiturates, right? They still make xanex, they just call it something different every few years. In the nineties it was Valium. Probably has something to do with patents.
You don't really know how pharmaceuticals work, do you?
That provokes an off-shoot question: if they were so popular at the time, why haven't garage chemists reverse-engineered the stuff and started producing their own in the U.S.? Is there not a market for it any longer?
This post was edited on 1/26/18 at 2:43 pm
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:42 pm to LSU Wayne
Quaaludes and beer was good times.
ETA: Lemmon 714
ETA: Lemmon 714
This post was edited on 1/26/18 at 2:44 pm
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:42 pm to LSU Wayne
I slag them all the time in the early 90s on my TI-82.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:45 pm to AbuTheMonkey
quote:They have likely made attempts or somethign similar, but it won't be the Mandrax-quality. Probably just a mix of a bunch of different barbiturates. It's a little easier to regulate than stuff than coke or pot.
if they were so popular at the time, why haven't garage chemists reverse-engineered the stuff and started producing their own in the U.S.?
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:46 pm to Lakeboy7
Placidyl? It's still around right?
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:46 pm to LSU Wayne
quote:
methaqualone is a common recreational and self-medication drug in South Africa and other of the former Frontline States, including Mozambique, Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Some percentage of this consumption, as well as on the European and Near East clandestine drug markets, was/is in all probability sourced from the massive cache of powder and tabletted methaqualone produced under the aegis of the apartheid-era South African government's Project Coast in a segment thereof directed by Dr Wouter Basson (whose "Brownies" are capsules of pure MDMA in doses of up to 135 mg), who at one point was held by police in Croatia carrying $40m in Vatican bearer bonds when attempting to purchase 500 kilos of methaqualone. The methaqualone and MDMA, along with cocaine and other empathogens and aphrodisiacs as well as muscle relaxants and incapacitating anticholinergic deliriants were considered for non-lethal riot-control use. The entire drug cache disappeared into the underground in the final days of the National Party's tenure in office. The total methaqualone cache may have approached a ton.
Based on the pill ad below, this cache would've been enough to make over 3million doses.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:46 pm to Lakeboy7
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You got that right, remember green and red palcidyl's?
Yep. Those would make you weak in the knees. Better than 'ludes, imho.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:47 pm to LSUballs
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Not quite the same thing
if you're referring to ecstasy, Quaaludes were the first drug to be called disco biscuits.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:48 pm to mailman
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Its not real ludes in SA, the have to make it using another drug. Its sketch af, i think vice has a special on it
I've seen that special. They crush them up and smoke them out of broke glass bottles.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:50 pm to OK Samaritan
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In the nineties it was Valium.
Valium was huge long before the 90s. In the US it was the highest selling medication in the US from 1968 to 1982 with sales peaking in 1978.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:52 pm to CaptainPanic
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They have likely made attempts or somethign similar, but it won't be the Mandrax-quality. Probably just a mix of a bunch of different barbiturates. It's a little easier to regulate than stuff than coke or pot.
Is that because the input ingredients are difficult to get your hands on?
Genuinely curious about this because the best analog in my head for this stuff is another synthetic (meth), and meth is everywhere. Did consumer tastes in the U.S. just fall away after the 70's? I wonder if opioids have filled whatever market gap for downers that quaaludes used to have.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:53 pm to Telecaster
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Yep. Those would make you weak in the knees. Better than 'ludes, imho.
yeah you needed to be wherever you were calling it a night before enjoying those.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:57 pm to MLCLyons
Quaaludes were almost before my time but I took Xanax, valiums, and Rohypinols all through my teenage year and early 20’s. One time, I was offered and took a Quaalude and it knocked me on my arse. It was like taking 3 valiums or Xanax. I woke up the next day clueless about the night before with bruises and a huge knot on my head.
Posted on 1/26/18 at 2:58 pm to LSU Wayne
You can still get Quaaludes on the Dark Web. Try Dream Market.
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