Vader (Can't win)
Although he is famous as the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud was also one of the pioneers of cocaine research. He advocated it as a wonder-drug and a cure for morphine addiction, until the dark side of the drug's nature became apparent. Here is an excerpt of a love-letter he wrote:
Woe to you, my Princess, when I come... you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle girl who doesn't eat enough or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body.
Doug2113
If you freebase your meth out of a glass pipe, you can tell meth is cut if it chokes you out when you inhale it; meth is very smooth to smoke, it should feel a bit like air going down your throat. To fix this problem, melt it down as normal would as if you were going to smoke it. Let it "crack-back" (solidify in the bottom of the pipe) and heat it again, but instead, blow through the pipe (always blow out your first hit) instead of inhaling it and place your lighter over the hole in the globe and continue to blow if it leaves a white residue on your lighter, pulling back your lighter and wiping the residue off every few seconds to make sure it's still leaving residue so you don't waste your dope!
Renz Envy (Can't win)
A large majority of the world's supply of cocaine is cut with a harmful chemical known as
levamisole. Levamisole harms the body's ability to fight off infection, thus making cocaine's already harmful effects even more prevalent. This cut often happens before the product is shipped to it's country to be sold.
A fact I think anyone who has ever used, or plans to use cocaine should know.
loulou reed
Balzac worked by night with the aid of litres and litres of black coffee. And Jean-Paul Sartre worked with the aid of tons of amphetamine.
Tripman
Heinrich Boell, who in 1972 was the first German to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature after the war was a member of the Nazi German army. He was heavily addicted to Pervatin, more commonly known as speed. The Nazi German army used stimulants heavily to give a "superhuman" edge to their soldiers. It cut down on food consumption and raised aggression massively. They called it the wonderdrug.
Vader (Can't win)
Paul Erdos was a brilliant mathmetician, and a lifelong user of amphetamine. He was a nomad, and lived by turning up unannounced at the homes of other mathemeticians, writing a paper, then moving on. He once made a bet that he could stop using speed for a month; he won, and then immediately resumed his use, saying that his abstinence had set mathematics back by a month. (Fascinating guy, I recommend you read more, i think everyone should know what an "Erdos-Bacon number" is (sounds complicated and technical, is actually just quite amusing).
Vader (Can't win)
There is currently an epidemic of qat use in Yemen, that is becoming a severe social problem. Qat is a shrub that contains cathine and cathinone (amphetamine drugs), and though it has been used for centuries, use has exploded in recent years. Think it's all casual, it's just a hobby?
Thirty years ago, chewing qat leaves for their curious effect of physical relaxation and mental stimulation was an occasional pastime. Now more than half of Yemenis chew it daily. This has bad effects. A World Bank report estimates that a quarter of working hours are spent chewing and that Yemenis spend money on qat instead of food for their often malnourished families. Irrigating qat is also a drain on water reserves that are anyway drying up fast. And it can cause oral cancer. A local pundit, frustrated by people’s reluctance to protest against Yemen’s poverty, corruption and violence, describes the people as “anaesthetised by qat”.
http://www.economist.com/node/17155919
YellowPolkaDotHalo
Errol Flynn frequently applied a dab of cocaine to the end of his penis. It helped, he once explained, "if you're quick on the trigger." Source- Bring on the Empty Horses David Niven.
Ladies I know what youre thinking ..'i'll have that right up my hooter' right? No need your
vaginal tissues will absorb it.. Source- Yahoo Answers. The questioner was worried that
hubbys PE remedy was going to cause her to fail a drug test.
Doug2113
The amount of caffeine in coffee is highly dependent on how dark the roast is and how it is brewed, which you probably knew, but is quite the opposite of what most people think. The darker the roast is, the less caffeine it has in it. Caffeine is taken out of the coffee beans during the roasting process, so you dad's mild breakfast blend is actually more caffeinated than the espresso you drink in Starbucks. The one difference is that the way espresso is brewed-hot water being pushed through the finely ground beans, makes it a potent 1 oz. shot of 75mg of caffeine, just 5mg shy of your average cup of coffee.
Mugz (Can't win)
In Stargate SG-1 the
Sarcophagus which is used by the Goa'uld as a healing device, lifespan extender, and even reviving people from death has psychological effects similar to stimulant drugs as evidenced in the episode of SG-1
Need
Synopsis
SG-1 is caught and sent away as slave labor, except for Dr. Daniel Jackson who is starting to overuse a Sarcophagus and suffers its adverse effects which are similar to that of drug addiction. When SG-1 is finally freed, they take Jackson back to prevent him from using again.
Upon their return to Earth, Jackson is found to be biologically unstable, apparently because of the somewhat narcotic properties of the sarcophagus. He goes through withdrawal, during which he is mentally unstable. He demands to go back to Shyla's world, saying that they are killing him by keeping him away from the sarcophagus. He attempts to escape, and eventually pulls a gun on Colonel Jack O'Neill, before breaking down and agreeing to remain on Earth and break the addiction.
I've never experienced stimulant withdrawal, but the doctor during that episode said that the dopamine levels in Daniels brain had been altered by continual exposure to the sarcophagus , and his actions during the show were very much like someone very stimmed up. In short
Jackson becomes addicted to the device, demonstrating symptoms common to the Goa'uld who regularly use them, including paranoia, egotism, and megalomania.
Vader (Can't win)
IIRC Japan is the only country in the world where amphetamines are more commonly used than cannabis.
Loulou Reed
The less time you put your tea bag in boiling water, the more the water is charged with theine (theine is the same as caffeine).
Tripman
In 2004 Xenova developed a vaccine for cocaine use called TA-CD which is a mix of norcocain and inactivated cholera toxin. It prevents cocaine from crossing the blood-brain barrier and negates only the physical aspects of the drug, not the psychological urge to use. At the time controversial motions were put forward to vaccinate all US teenagers in their early teens.
Olab7
Dr. Leo Zeff was a psychologist and psychotherapist who popularized the use of MDMA (ecstacy) in psychotherapy in the 1970's. Zeff gave it the nickname "Adam" because he believed it returned one to a state of primordial innocence. Alexander Shulgin ,the founder of many phenethylamines, was the one who introduced Zeff to MDMA.
Today, MDMA is still being tested to see of it's theraputic effects, including treating Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
YellowPolkaDotHalo
According to Paul Gootenburg* trace amounts of cocaine can be found on four out of
every five dollar bills in circulation.
*Gootenberg, Paul. 1999. Cocaine: Global Histories. New York, NY: Routledge
aveoturbo
Ritalin when crushed or insufflated has effects similar to those of cocaine. In fact, when it was injected via an IV to cocaine addicts, they found the difference between the 2 drugs effects to be nearly indistinguishable (ritalin and cocaine).
atm23
The use of Amphetamines was only banned in Major league Football in the US in 2006 and is still common place amongst the military whilst in combat situiations especailly for helicopter pilolts and their crew memebers on extended missions.
SamhainGrim (Can't win - not even sure if it was an entry)
Methamphetamine was a popular one with the British forces in WWII. There was a headline somewhere that read "Methedrine Wins The Battle of London".
My dad (who never saw actual combat, and long after WWII) failed to see his extensive use of stims and downers during his Air Force days as 'drug use' of any kind.
SamhainGrim (Can't win - not even sure if it was an entry)
The Soviets preferred methcathinone, especially among the secret services. They believed it was less dangerous to feed to their agents than meth / amphetamine, and less likely to induce psychosis if used for prolonged periods.
nAON
Nootropics of the racetam class (eg. piracetam, aniracetam) can strongly potentiate stims, similar to having tolerance lowered. The exact mechanism of action of the drugs is still not understood, however.
Addyman
Methamphetamine tablets branded as Pervitin were liberally distributed to Hitler's troops while he was in power.
He saw amphetamines as "power drugs" that reduce fatigue, heighten aggression, and diminish human warmth and empathy.
Though, it did lead to many of Hitler's troops becoming addicted... lol...
There is even speculations Hitler received daily Methamphetamine injections to combat his Parkinson's and other health problems
nAON
During WW2 in nazi germany, by testing on people in concentration camps, an ideal mixture for marching soldiers, called 'D-IX', was formulated. This consisted of 5mg oxycodone, 5mg cocaine and 3mg metamphetamine. Those who it was being tested on could supposedly march for 55 miles with a 20kg pack before collapsing.
Addyman (Not really 100% true)
Pretty much any drug that ends in "ine", particularly stimulants, pretty much is a diuretic (methamphetamine). Caffeine, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, etcetera. these are all drugs which are or were used in OTC weight loss products due to their diuretic properties. There are different types of diuretic action depending on the drug, but the result is always the same (frequent urination).
aveoturbo
During the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. Govt. experimented with drugs on its own citizens during Project MKULTRA (kind of sounds a bit delicious). They mostly experimented with LSD but another avenue they played with was using barbituates and amphetamines together. They would inject an individual with barbituates until the subject began to fall asleep at which point they would inject them with amphetamines. This would result in the subjects babbling incoherently but sometimes the scientists were able to ask the subjects questions and get useful information from them.
While most CIA records about the experiments were destroyed, it is thought that there were several deaths resulting from their experiments. The project was terminated in the late '60s when lawsuits were made against the CIA due to concerns about the govt. not giving the test subjects proper consent about the experiments.