qualudes? I havent heard that word in many moons..
I never took one because I was just a kid.. But my mom, she did.. I was about twelve years old when they were banned all out in the US. My mother had 300 of them and was selling them @ $5 each in 1982 I believe it were..
I have not seen another drug like it since then.. My mother would take three of them and be literally catatonic. Im talking in the floor, mouth agape, drooling and unresponsive...
As a young child this had a grave impact on my life I can tell you that much.. The banning of this drug was rightly so as the "baby boomers" were completely out of control with the use of it..
I remember in the late 70's my parents would have parties and sometimes there would be 10 or more people completely out of it strewn about randomly about the house.. I saw women naked, completely catatonic in the floor with a cigarette that had burned between her fingers and the butt fell on the floor and never woke up. Fingers severely burned.. With a Dr. Hook album skipping on the turntable,
I saw a man stand up from being face down in the floor walk over to our couch, lift the cushion, take out his weenie and commence pissing in our couch. lowered the cushion and then got pissed because he could not suscsessfully locate the handle to flush the damn thing..
It would slow and slurr a users speech so bad that it would take my mom at least 20 seconds to tell the local cop that came for a noise complaint to "kiss her ass". this is not a lie nor an exaggeration.
My uncle, (moms brother) had a 1969 GTO. It had "The judge" on the front fenders.. it was blaze orange with an awesome interior.. That was before the telephone pole.
My step father had a 1969 Oldsmobile "Hurst". this car had leather swiveling seats and tilt steering. It had three gearshifts and hood pins. Silver with black stripes.... rolled 5 times and hit another car.
This car would be worth over $100,000 today.. All due to two or three qualudes.
I remember several different types. There was an orange pill that had "AS" on one side. Also a lemon 7-14. it was yellowish in color.
I will be honest. Nobody ought to lament over the discontinuation of this drug in the US. that is good riddance.. Like I said, It was way more than the baby boomers and their Know-it-all and "all about me" attitude could handle. There would have been thousands of deaths due to overdose and/or auto accidents. We still have our parents and they still think the world was hand made just for them. But they cant have any more qualudes so they will just have to make due with xanax and klonopin whilst they sit in the indian casinos smoking cigarettes and squandering their childrens inheritance away at the slot machines..
As a member of Generation X, that is my take on the fossil that is quaalude....
