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Favorite Social History of Drug or Class of Drugs

Mr-Tambourine-Man

Mr-Tambourine-Man

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So which group of drugs or single drug do you find to have the most fascinating social history, i.e. amphetamine's effect on WWII and the Beat Generation, or LSD's on the hippy movement, Valium on the life of the American housewife, etc...? What drug(s) really stir your imagination?
 
This is a really interesting thread but I don't know if its appropriate for the OD forum, perhaps drug culture or elsewhere.

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I wanted to throw in a few other suggested topics... marihuana as pretext to arrest/deport mexicans during the great depression, opium dens in San Francisco during the gold rush, ecstacy and the rave culture (and maybe transition of designer drug market to research chemicals) and cocaine in white-black relations in the early 20th century.
 
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William Burroughs and the decline of the Beat cultures' pathway into opioids makes opioids kinda 'romantic' in the sense that, hell, if you're gonna be an addict/you're gonna use opioids, you would wanna be an addict/use opioids in the scene they were in... heh.
 
Burroughs taught me not to play William Tell with a fugitive heroin addict on the run in mexico.

Its a very important lesson!
 
LSD for sure.
How it was just stumbled upon and produced amazing results the first go.
Being legal for years... Then having it be made in San Fran and having the Acid Tests.
 
PIHKAL, the book from Alexander Shulgin. Note that I'm absolutely not into uppers and psychedelics, but this man is a genius, a must read.
 
Um Im thinking im most interested in MDXX history....I mean its going to affect my generation most, I know the sordid past of other drugs but this what came around awhile ago but recent enough that its a new drug............plus our e-tard will be crazy old people
 
DC material.

Definitely the clandestine manufacture of Methamphetamine in the US between the 1960's and mid 1990's. Tweeker culture, lingo, connections with white gangs and MC's, etc all going on relatively unnoticed. "Those damn blue collar tweekers" etc etc etc.
 
^Going back even further, I find the migration of the redneck southern culture out to california and their transformation into the motorcycle clubs likewise intriguing.
 
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i enjoy heroin and benzos, but i am not a drug snob. infact, i am a drug nerd. i read the pdr when i was 14. the history and social ramifications of drugs fascinate the shit out of me too. meth, mdma, heroin, coke, pills, even weed. just learning about how it is supplied, cut, sold. i got really into learning how hispanics deal heroin and cocaine in this country by hanging out with REAL dealers that i would buy from. usually it is a family business. i am actually sober but i still read BL, that right there should tell you how much i get off on drugs (a totally seperate interest than merely getting high).
 
How about the medical miracle of the transition from barbiturates to benzodiazepines?
Or the history of the antideppressent infatuation?
Or Napoleon's use of opium to help aid fatigued and pain-ridden soldiers conquer half of europe?
 
^ I was going to give Cane a hard time about that too...;) Cane, you know that really hurts our feelings.=D

Looks like we've all been watching the History Channel lately. I do really enjoy those documentaries.
 
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^Going back even further, I find the migration of the redneck southern culture out to california and their transformation into the motorcycle clubs likewise intriguing.
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the Linkhorns! loved Hell's Angels . . one of my favorite Thompson books.

i really enjoyed Cocaine Cowboys on the transformation of Miami and South America in the late 70's/80's
 
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