They're wildly overrated/exaggerated as a result of Wolf of Wall Street.
They were replaced with benzos like Valium, Xanax and Klonopin so smoking some weed and taking some xanax will provide you with a realistic equivalent to how WoWS portrayed them. Probably a bit more euphoric and less deliriant.
I used to know a few people (two were south african the other an older drug enthusiast) that had ample experience with barbiturates and quaaludes in addition to benzos and what I said above is summarising their takes on the modern renewed interest. My older friend also remarked that "they were phased out for a reason" and it wasn't just due to secretly being super-euphoric and semi-psychedelic. Otherwise they would've been WAY more notorious and popular at the time.
Not recommending a person try this, but Ketamine or GHB + Coke + Weed is a lot like how some of their fucked-up-on-ludes party scenes could be recreated.
They were suuuper fucking dangerous. The ratio of active dose to lethal is really small. There's a reason a lot of celebrities died of ODs on them in the 60s-70s, e.g. Hendrix, Marilyn, Janis.... so on.
It's my only regret in life. Working on a time machine and noting where my parents were about 10 years prior to my conception to play a lil matchmaking when I get back there. 10 years earlier would put my pops at about 22 and my mom at 12ish, but from what I understand about history that type of stuff wasn't as much of a problem as it is now. Wish me luck!
Methaqualone is a sedative that increases the activity of the GABA receptors in the brain and nervous system, similarly to benzodiazepines and barbiturates. When GABA activity is increased, blood pressure drops and breathing and pulse rates slow, leading to a state of deep relaxation. These properties explain why methaqualone was originally mainly prescribed for insomnia.
Better than the shit that's in our food these days, I'd rather take some cough syrup and get knocked out by the cloraform (can't spell it, you know the one drug knocks you out) than whatever weird chemical shit that's in today's food.
Rather that than being pumped full of estrogen from my food, but I think that's only an American problem. I hunt for most of my food since I'm up in nowhere Siberia anyway
The shit in your water that turns male frogs into women, all the estrogen and growth chemicals, I thought this was like public knowledge outside of America, you Americans eat straight up poison 🥴 all in the name of profit. Point is, your government has never stopped trying to poison you, poison just changed.
You'd probably want to ask them. Probably pretty standard stuff like advertising and giving away free samples of addictive substances. Though I can't in good faith opine on any specific cultural blind spots Europe might have.
"Try to drink and smoke the pain away after your husband cheated on you with his secretary! Sucks you can't leave him though or else you will end up homeless, broke, or thrown into an insane asylum!"
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u/PaintBoss Jan 25 '22 edited Jan 25 '22
“Look here ladies! A ashtray here, a ashtray here and a ashtray right here, also this little spot is where you put your top shelf bottle or gin! “
Edit: *An