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Which Drug Era Is Your Favorite?

Lady Codone

Lady Codone

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I know there are many drugs in every place & time period, but certain drugs really stick out during each decade. For instance:

The '50s: Amphetamines & barbiturates
The '60s: Pot & LSD
The '70s: Cocaine & Quaaludes
The '80s: Crack & PCP
The '90s: MDMA & meth
2000's: Rx opiates


I feel like I shoulda been born in the '50s, as there were tons of nice uppers and downers that were handed out like candy. Dexamyl, Ambar, Bennies, Seconal & phenmetrazine sound absolutely heavenly. (Also would've liked to try some of the insane old opiates like Palfium and Diconal, but I'm not sure when those were popular). I think the '60s would've been my least favorite decade as I have no use for pot and psychedelics.

Which drug era is your favorite? <3
 
Honestly: the modern day will go down as the time when we could have almost any psychotropic shipped from almost anywhere to our front doors by the postman.
For all the pitfalls of the RC industry (of which there are many) it is a fucking beautiful time to be a Junkie and will be remembered as fondly as any past era once it is gone.
 
One question I've always had that I might as well ask here: did most all heroin addicts in the 1950's IV? I ask because when I see a depiction of heroin or morphine use "back in the day", people always seem to be injecting using those old school glass syringes.
 
It could be a UK thing but: I've never seen a non-IV depiction of Opioid addiction here.
I'd imagine it's a fear thing: a spike terrifies most, smoky foil? Not so much.
 
Sprout said:
Honestly: the modern day will go down as the time when we could have almost any psychotropic shipped from almost anywhere to our front doors by the postman.
For all the pitfalls of the RC industry (of which there are many) it is a fucking beautiful time to be a Junkie and will be remembered as fondly as any past era once it is gone.
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So true!
 
Burnt Offerings said:
One question I've always had that I might as well ask here: did most all heroin addicts in the 1950's IV?
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i think so, yes.
Heroin addiction was still very much a "fringe culture" (if you can call it that) and practices such as snorting or chasing powders off foil were not as commonly known as they are today.
As far as i know, people didn't start using heroin in more "socially acceptable" ROAs like insufflation until cocaine use in that form became prevalent, probably in the mid 1960s. But i could be wrong about that.

Reading William Burroughs novels of the 50s (Junky and Queer) gave me the impression that heroin users of the 30s, 40s and 50s were prodiminantly IV users - and that prior to the Harrison Act, the vast manority of opiate addicts - in the US at least - were opium or laudanum users.

While i remember reading this, i can't quote direct passages or figures. But my understanding is that most opium smokers were either forced to give up cold turkey, or became part of the heroin-injecting criminal underworld, as opiates became illegal and subject to black market pricing.
As Burroughs mixed with junkies that had used "back in hop (opium) smoking times" - he was able to understand the culture before and the Harrison act came into force.
The novel You Can't Win by pseudonymous career junkie-thief writer "Jack Black" docoments this early 20th century era amazingly, if you can track down a copy - and he was a big influence on Burroughs' own writing, especially his first two aforementioned novels.
Although these are works of fiction, they are all regarded as highly autobiographical in nature, due to the specific and taboo subject matter.

I have read that Britain had very little in the way of a heroin using population until the 1960s - and this was presumably the case for much of the western world; most opiate addicts were dependant as a result of medical prescription.

As for users in the Middle East as well as African and Asian countries (especially China) the history is different and much more complex, but i don't know a great deal about specifics, or when clandestine production of heroin overtook the pharmaceutical form in the marketplace.
Fascinating subject though.
 
1970s is a nice moderate mix of the 60s and 80s north America at least and less intense than either adjacent decade too.
 
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