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Newsgroups: alt.drugs
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From: ckoenig@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Christopher K. Koenigsberg)
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Subject: Re: Quaalude (methaqhaalone)
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Message-ID: <1994Mar23.195236.20139@midway.uchicago.edu>
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 1994 19:52:36 GMT
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Let's see, describe the effects of Quaaludes? circa 1971-1972, kids
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were handing them out at junior high school "assemblies" i.e.
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required-attendance meetings of the whole school. I was too chicken to
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try them for a few years, until I had already done many other things
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first. But most everyone I knew was eating ludes, doing coke, even
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before smoking reefer and dropping acid, i.e. still in junior high
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school.
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I finally decided to try them and see what everyone was doing so much
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of, especially since they had two "a's" in their name, so I bought 3
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quaaludes for $5 around 1974. Sat down with a friend at 8 PM, ate one,
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did some bongs. Hmm, no effect from the ludes, better pop another.
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More bongs, still nothing happening? eat the third one. Hmm.
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And then suddenly it's 10 AM the next morning. I've been
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sleeping/zombified/motionless in the chair in my friend's room for
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almost 12 hours, with no memory of any of it.
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I stand up, groggy, stagger around, stagger out through the streets to
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my parents' house. gee, loads of fun. Gangs of fun, as we would say.
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Kind of a lot like being drunk but a little less sloppy, somehow,
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since no liquid, pissing, burping, stomach upset, etc. is involved.
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Supposedly comes on in just 10 minutes, although it took me longer and
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that's why I ate too many.
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The story back then was that nurses in the local hospital went apeshit
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over having sex on quaaludes, according to guys who worked there. (and
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the nurses had access to the supply closets) (and of course there was
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the immortal Bicentennial Crime a couple of years later in '76, when
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we liberated a number of 5-foot nitrous oxide tanks from
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aforementioned hospital's unused emergency room tank corral....)
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Various women confirmed that ludes made them hornier than anything in
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the whole world. For a guy, ludes will just knock you out, so this
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tells you something about the differing attitudes (male vs. female)
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towards sex... :-) A popular theory among jr. high and high school
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budding psychopharmacological researchers was that they didn't really
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make girls literally "horny" i.e. physically aroused. Instead, the jr.
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high school & high school girls really just wanted an excuse to let
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go, and to get zonked so they don't have to pay attention, so the guy
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could do whatever he wants to her and she could disclaim responsibility
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afterwards by blaming it on the ludes.
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There were several well-known "funny doctors" that everyone got their
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ludes from -- apparently (I never tried this) you just went and said,
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oh I have a headache, or I have real bad PMS, and he wrote you a
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script for ludes, no other questions asked. Presumably the funny
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doctors all got busted by the mid-1970's.
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Oh, another thing was that people were really ecstatic about the
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combination of quaaludes and cocaine, one takes you down and the other
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takes you up, somehow the combination was awesome. Yawn.
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I recall going with someone, to give someone else a ride, to go and
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"find their car" because they had done too much ludes and coke and had
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forgotten where they drove it to and where they left it. gee, what
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fun. Not.
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Oh yeah, one time again in 1977 or so in college, a girl I knew got
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some ludes from her philosophy professor (I don't know if he was
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already making it with her, or just dreaming of it :-), and she made
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me do one with some whippets, just before I got to go and meet
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Buckminster Fuller. Now, that was cute.
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Then quaaludes were outlawed, etc. etc. etc.
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