# What was this drug from the 70's?

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**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [May 10, 2010, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-drug-from-the-70s/538877 "2010-05-10T04:52:40Z")
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### Author: ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2010, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-drug-from-the-70s/538877/21 "2010-05-12T13:06:54Z")

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> [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](#):
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> In my 7th grade drug abuse training unit, in 1969, I remember. “reds” as one of the dangerous drugs they warned us about. There were also other color-related names, although the only one I remember was “yellowjackets”, which I think were also called yellow submarines

[Black Beauties](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=black+beauties).

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