@brokedownpalace10 thank you so much for that information dude. Now it's time to give you some shit. At 34 years old, I look at some of these young guns running around and feel like an old-timer. All these kids with their MySpace and their Pac Man; I just don't understand them anymore. You must be even older than this old man!
When I was writing that, I believed literally nobody reading it would've ever tried Phenmetrazine. I was under the impression that it was big in the 60's but was pretty much off the scene by the early-mid 80's.
Can I bring up a point that's breaking my balls right now? I'm an amateur Historian. I went to school for it and spent a good part of my life teaching it. It's my favorite way of interpreting life. Also, being someone whose life is interwoven with the world of substance use, I have thoughts.
If we were ever to try to make a legitimate history of drugs and their usage, it would practically be impossible to discern politically-motivated information from more objective truth.
I'd love to know more about this. I have read bits and pieces about Phenmetrazine. I've read that it was very popular in the Scandinavian countries for a time. I also have read that it was sold as a street drug, I guess specifically in the DC Metro area where it was known as "Bam". Anyway, there's so much history I wish I could learn like this.
Thanks again, great information!
Hmm. Wow. Not sure what to type. I'm 69, so a year over twice your age
I've gotten myself addicted to everything but the big one, opiates. Been down the downer road and the stimulant.
I was a speed freak right outa high school for a couple years till it got ahead of me and I quit. Then, years later, after quitting drinking, I did a 3-6 month bout with injecting speed. That one will get to ya perty quick. Lost my job and I do think that changes your brain forever. A year or three later it's background, but there.
Anyway, it prolly
was late 70's/early 80's that I was a needle freak for a bit.
Where I live anyway, the most common thing, usually available was 15mg Desoxyn.
People would have those by the hundreds, so diverted I guess. Preludin I would get from a housewife selling her prescription.
She would sell us the piece of paper and we had to go fill it. Saved her a few bucks but it was always fun being a skinny speed freak and going into the pharmacy for that. They were just beginning to get weird about such things.
The Desoxyn didn't really give a rush. You immediately went from zero to sixty and felt like superman, so that was a "rush", but crank or crystal gave a better rush.
The Desoxyn was a kind of a plastic pill and that was it's form of time release. The speed diffused out of it as it went through your body and you pooped it out whole. To cook it up, you put it in your little glass bottle and heated it for a while, usually on a light bulb. Desox, you could actually just cold soak for a day or two if you wanted to.
You got a clean yellow liquid which didn't even need to be filtered through cotton. 3 to 5 pills for a hit.
After you had cooked them a few times, the pills were white. I have put them between two spoons while still warm and squeezed them to get the last out and they would compress and them pop back up into their original shape. Kind of a plastic pill.
Meth was usually called "crank" and quite often did come from bikers. Crank was the low quality stuff cut with who knows what (often ephedrine) and "crystal" or "meth" was the good shit.
Crystals or shards were less common and to be celebrated.
That's the thing, younger folks think that was the golden age of drugs and in some ways maybe it was great but the internet wasn't public yet and the small scale home cooking of meth wasn't happening. I don't do anything like that anymore but I get the impression that meth is much more commonly good and cheaper nowadays.
RC's came much later as well (and I missed them). So really, these are the good old days
What would you like me to ramble about?