Posted by kazoo on March 31, 2002, at 2:44:45
In reply to Methedrine now called Desoxyn , posted by 3 Beer Effect on March 27, 2002, at 4:50:35
You are obviously not a sixties person, my dear Sir or Madam, which ever the case may be.
"Methedrine" was the proprietary name for a drug manufactured by a company that is now defunct (if I think hard enough, I'll remember what it was). It's main ingredient was methamphetamine, and one other thing, possibly ephedrine and was available via injectable form only. There were NO Methedrine pills, per se.
In the late 1960s, doctors in the San Francisco Bay Area started shooting up their heroin addicted patients with Methedrine in hopes of getting them off the dreaded "hard stuff." Well, guess what: they learned the hard way that the best of the worst still isn't very good, so they developed a new group of Meth Freaks who displayed symptoms of psychosis and were violent, and just as addicted to the original "hard stuff". How were they supposed to know? They're doctors!
In my feeble opinion, methamphetamine is the WORST possible addiction one can have (Shut up! I've been *TOLD* that to be true!). One never quite gets over a "speed Jones," at any age, at any time, the mark of true, die-hard habituation until DEATH.
Today, the government is in a kind of a bind: the drug DESOXYN is manufactured legally and prescribed in a perfuntory manner to those with ADD because it helps this group of people, or so they say ... but then you have the DEA busting those who make it themselves from ingredients OTC. The FDA, since the mid-1970s, has been trying to reclassify this genre of drug into the CONTROL SUBSTANCE I category, or that group of drugs with no medical use or purpose. But they're trying to do that to marijuana as well so whom do you listen to? Whom do you trust? What color is the sky on your planet? And what will "they" do next to make our lives miserable?
If you really want to find out why amphetamine got such a bad rap in this country, then please (by all means) go to my website which deals directly with this subject, Washington D.C. style: http://www.geocities.com/zoots90210/index.htm
The treatise, dated 1972, came from an old law book and some of the things the author says (I admit) are outdated and downright corny, but the basic tenet to get this drug under control is the interesting part. Also note the other drugs the government mickey-moused with, and the MAJOR ROLE these drug companies had in marionetting the strings of those involved. What crap. We are all pawns and victims to the whims of shitheads.
I rest my case, you honor ...
(a mean) kazoo
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