My tiny experience with illicit drugs is in the very distant past, but I can say that I purchased methedrine in Berkeley, California in the 1960’s and we all called it “methedrine.” (We might have shortened that to “meth” but I don’t recall.) And no, I didn’t buy from a cop, rather from some guy with decaying teeth. Even since then, I’ve heard “meth,” presumably to distinguish it from the more generic term “speed” which might include dexedrine, etc.
In Thailand, where it is still probably the biggest selling illegal drug in rural areas, speed (whatever its chemical composition is – ask the Burmese government which allegedly runs the manufacturing) was called ยาม้า (Yaa Maa, meaning horse medicine) because it makes you as strong as a horse. About 20 years ago, the Thai government ran a big campaign to change the name to ยาบ้า (Yaa Baa, crazy pills) and that name seems more common now. (Maybe the users are afraid to call it Yaa Maa in public, implying they use it. :dubious: )
Whatever happened to Angel Dust? Every other TV show in the late 70s/early 80s had characters getting strung out on Angel Dust and jumping out of windows because they thought they could fly. In the newspaper I read about pot busts, heroin busts, cocaine busts and, uh, meth busts. But I never ever hear about anyone getting busted for Angel Dust. Was Angel Dust even a real thing back in the 70s, or was it all media hype?
It was and still is around although it does not seem to be common. There was a lot of media hype about PCP in the 70s/80s and IIRC it was based on a few incidents that were real but as usual the media blew it all out of proportion. AIUI in a very small percentage of uses it causes psychotic reactions, something like one in thousands, but when it went bad it really went bad, person tripping balls, unable to feel pain and violent. I am sure someone will come along with a cite. It is still used in Veterinary medicine as anesthesia because it has an incredibly high LD50. Apparently humans are the only mammals who have averse reactions to it. Take this all with a grain of salt as I am working from memory.
I haven’t been offered it since the early nineties
It was definitely for real. In fact when freebase coke started getting trendy, there was this really twisted shit called star basing which was a mixture of base coke and PCP. Mother of god was that some fucked up shit. :smack:
edit: there’s a reference to it here but it’s mixed with crack and they’re calling it space basing - guessing they were late to the party.
Because getting pissed because someone uses the wrong word is even remotely equivalent than being pissed your mom was swindled. And of course, shitting all over the corpse of a former poster is exactly the same as expecting non-druggies to know or care about what drugs are actually called on the street.
I will never understand the mindset that puts immoral things as these in the same category as “Dem stupid people don’t talk right!” or “Dem people walk on the wrong side of the sidewallk” or “I saw that guy’s name too often in this one forum” or, to pick the trivial pit thread du jour: “a show on TV I don’t like.”
(Sorry panache–not a swipe at you. But that’s a Cafe Society thread. Yet no one is making fun of you (let alone plied on you) for being upset about something trivial.)
Just a drive by posting and maybe I’m dating myself but didn’t there used to be a thing called crystal meth that was colloquially known as crank, or is crystal meth different enough from meth to make a difference?
Basically yes, Meth and Crystal meth are often the same thing but it depends, there are a ton of misleading and contradictory names as well. Where I grew up Crank was cheap and methlike but not the real deal. I think you could ask for Meth or Crystal Meth and in most places they would sell you the same thing. YMMV
In my neck of the woods, meth is a common name. Someone close to me had hers seized, and tested at 80%-ish methamphetamine. So I guess the stuff sold around here as meth is meth.
“Bath Salts” is the generic term for the stuff you get (or could get, I think it is illegal now) in your local convenience store. Right next to the fake marijuana known as “Spice”.
And somehow, calling it “dope” or “bath salt” rather than “meth” is going to give a more positive view of its users ?
What the fuck is that ??? :eek: I googled and the images :eek::eek::eek: (for the faints of heart : you don’t want to watch those images. Really you don’t. Trust me.). Is it a hoax or is it for real ??? What can possibly causes that ? :eek::eek:
