It is so funny Snafu because in the late 70' and even into the early 80's reds and yellows (seconal and nembutal) were available and every once in a while tuinal which was a mix. My good friend who lived across the street had a mother who's father was a pharmacist perscribe all kinds of sedatives and pain killers to my friends mother. So she had a lot of seconal and nembutal, loads of pill bottles (they were horder type lol). Then one day we were going to try and use diazepam as a sub when barbiturates were prescribed less and less. So instead of reds one day we tried diazepam not know what to expect. We take 1, 2, 6 pills later we still didnt feel like we felt anything. So we would do 100 mgs and shots of whiskey but wow did it not live up to the reds we were used too. Xanax proved to be the same but we didn't have to take 10 blue pills. But the notion was fun time was over as they had this new substitute drug which did not get you high like barbiturates did. I am just relaying how it felt at the time with my drug friends.
Now we did not really have rap then. (my earliest recollection of wrap was maybe Run DMC) but if we did have wrap they would have wrapping at the big let down of prescription changes. People were not happy with benzos if they were use to barbiturates so the rapping would have been dissapointment. How xanax became popular 30-40 years later is a mystery to me. I do not think barbiruates are prescribed much at all anymore.
I know barbiturates were more dangerous, but I really wish I could get a bottle of reds. I would be careful. lol That is what I think of when I think of "downers".
