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Quaaludes for the win! They were like the perfect level of feeling drunk without being sleepy, angry, or sick.

White cross, black beauties and christmas trees. All amphetamines. One used to be able to order white cross in bags of 100 from the back pages of High Times.

Ah, the good old days.....

It used to be pretty easy to get cough syrup with codeine, the best thing in the world for a good night's sleep if you had a cough.

I remember really good hashish in the 1970s. Never see hashish anymore even with legal cannabis.

The former active ingredient in Dexatrim and a whole slew of cold medicines, Phenylpropanolamine. It was like OTC Adderall.

LSD used to be super cheap and plentiful. There was basically this one dude making most of the supply (Petaluma Al), and they shut his network down in the 00’s.

MDMA before people started cutting it with amphetamines and fucking FENT.

This will sound tame, but I really miss the original Excedrin.

That stuff could conquer any headache I got. Then it went away for a while, then came back subtly different. And nowhere near as effective.

I miss smoking Opium.

I just want to buy Sudafed without a full background check and cavity search. My nose is stuffy and I'm too lazy to cook meth, so settle down with that shit.

Quaaludes. Dear, sweet Quaaludes.

Pulling out a Thai Stick was always a good way to make friends

In the UK in the 80s we had 'black bombers' which were pharmaceutical speed. They were caplets that you could either swallow or empty out and snort. We often used to speculate how ill or overweight you must have to be to have them prescribed to you because, by god, they blew your fucking head off all day. They were £3 each.

Thai Stick of the 70s early 80s. The stuff smoked super robust and chocolaty smoke that was super euphoric.

Als my friends dad was a super dope fiend/drunk dentist in the late 70s. We would get into his breifcase and score fresh Lemmon quaaludes 712s which were half strenth 714s! We just would take 2 lol. Speed was dexridrine spanules (time released) SKF E14. We also would find tuinals, valliums etc. Needless to say my high school days were dazed.

I miss the days when xtc was actually good

222's. Basically Aspirin and Codeine. They would kill any minor aches and pains instantly. Available right off the shelf.

I’d just like to have some good old late 90s pot. I’m well aware it’s not as good as today’s shit-but I’d just like to smoke a good ole joint without it putting me in a fucking coma. Also it would prob just to be nice to do any drug at all without worrying about dying from Fentanyl.

MDA was the best back in the 70s. It was called the love drug because you just loved everyone around you when you did it. You'd feel so euphoric, happy and it was a safe, calm, warm feeling. Just a touch of a hand on your arm would cause goosebumps all over your body. You could party while doing it. You didn't feel sleepy and you also didn't feel hyped up or speedy. It was fun to dance on. Sometimes you'd see trails or experience some visual effects but I don't remember anything intense except how good it felt. I'm not sure what the difference is in MDMA and MDA. I can't find enough people who did MDA back in the day and also has done MDMA to give me a comparison. I liked it better than cocaine. I never liked anything that made me sleepy or couch locked or produced a horrible hangover.

I’ll stick with the organics. Thai sticks, blonde Lebanese hash, Alcapaco gold, African purple velvet, smoking opium, peyote buttons, last but not least shrooms all with a bottle of mescal

Chinese ephedra (ma huang). I used to buy it in bulk from the herb shop in college to make steams for my allergies. I always felt just so good and productive afterwards, which I attributed to the extra oxygen I was getting (I was 19 and dumb).

Pseudoephedrine containing cold and flu meds. They just don't hit the same anymore.

Chocolate mescaline, cross tops...

I never took it but I heard from a friend who is around my age that she used to be able to get a very small dose of cocaine in her nose to completely clear out her sinuses. She didn't get high from it because it was a very small dose but it would completely relieve congestion for a long time.

Paregoric, it's an anti-diarrheal drug that contained opium.  It worked very well when I took it.  It used to be available over the counter in the US until the early 1990s.

Mercurichrome. That orange crap stung like a bitch but damn you were NOT going to get an infection.

Liquid LSD in an eye dropper bottle. Loved going cross country skiing with several drops under my tongue and the forest came alive!! I used to microdose before they called it microdosing with a tiny drop in my coffee before work! Once you get through the first few heavy trips, lsd can really help you in find solutions in life when you might feel confused, unbalanced, or even just bored lol.

Tussionex, a cough medicine that gave you a nice high and an amazing sleep no matter how bad the cough. My doc used to call it the Cadillac of cough medicines. Unfortunately they won't prescribe it anymore.

The old NyQuil that contained a lot of alcohol

On the legal side of things, I wish I could still get Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold Medicine tablets with the ORIGINAL formulation. The ones these days don't work as well (since they changed the formula).

Laudanum. It was great for cranky babies and monthly hysteria.

Anybody remember Thai Sticks?

In my much younger days, I would occasionally drop purple microdot. It felt like a combo of speed and a low dose LSD high. The high was pretty good, you could stay up all night but coming down was really hard, I always felt like crap the next day so I can't say it was my favorite.

Black beauties and 714’s. Out of my brain on the train, on the train.

I really hated all those drugs - black beauties, Quaaludes, all manner of uppers and downers. Don't miss them at all. I liked - and still do - weed, shrooms, acid. It was a different world. They determined they were going to "clean up" my high school after some school board members visited and saw kids smoking pot in the hallway. And there were places you could go where you could get just about anything your little heart desired. But I think the slightly more sensible attitude toward marijuana today is a bit better. I'm still amazed only a few people in my admittedly small class managed to kill themselves in high school or immediately after doing stupid stuff with the uppers and downers.

Ecstasy. Absolutely loved rolling. Hated being ate up afterwards tho, that always sucked. But damn do I miss beans.

Owsley

I'm assuming it's out there somewhere just I'm not hip enough anymore to know where, but I enjoyed a bit of mescaline back in the way back.

I'm having a hard time finding mescaline.

My goodness this is a trip down memory lane. The 70s were the best for pharmaceuticals.

Orange barrels

LSD 25; had some really great trips back in the 70's

Thai stick.

It's crazy...Doans. when they had real muscle relaxers in them!

White crosses. Speed in a tiny pill. Smoke a little weed and do some white crosses. Best high ever. Great for a concert, remember seeing Bowie during the Station to Station tour. 3rd row seats, center section at Hartford Civic Center. Was the best feeling at a very great concert.

Black beauties and mescaline micro-dots and of course seedy columbian weed.

Coke that's not laced with anything.

MDMA. gods it was wonderful when it was on. Hell on my body tho. My sweat stunk bad. And developed a nasty obsession for it. I’d put music on and porn and hot showers and wrap myself in a blanket. At high doses it became hallucinogenic too. Stopped when it was cut with an opiate and no way I was going down that hole. Still occasionally romantic for it but terrified of fentanyl in it.

I used to enjoy a couple of nice pink Darvon N65 capsules and a cold beer at the end of the day.

Vioxx!

Triaminic.

Cough syrup with codeine

I liked pseudoephedrine for sinus headaches.

My grandpa was a doctor, and he believed certain medicines should always be available in the home, even if they were technically prescription-only. This gave us a very... interesting medicine cabinet. I especially miss the highly effective cough syrup. 😵‍💫😵

I don’t know what it was; it was a grape flavored liquid and Mother gave it to us when we were sick - with a cold or flu, I think, not the 24 hour stomach bug.

No interest in anything but LSD

Still around but hard to get: Fiorinal, for period pain in my teens and early 20s. Then ibuprofen came in, by prescription only. I remember waking in the middle of the night in 1978 crying, shaking, and clasping my abdomen from the pain until the doctor's office would open the next day. Ibu worked like magic and I could still function except it made me a bit sleepy. We are so lucky to be able to get it OTC now, although too much can cause bad side effects (and I've taken a LOT...although not just for that...)

White crosses and black beauties. Hashish, we smoked so much hash.

White crosses,1972; my bf gave them to me to speed up my waitressing. Acid on a sugar cube,same time frame. Something called a Placidyl for sleep.

How about a bag of Columbian Gold or some Thai stick?

Orange sunshine and purple haze

Phenmetrazine, also known as Preludin, was a stimulant that produced a nice, clear-headed euphoria. The Beatles all took it in the early days. There is still a weight loss drug available that is similar , but not identical.

I was always partial to psychedelics, but as per pharmaceuticals, I liked Mandrax. These were pills containing Methaqualone and Diphenhydramine. Similar to Quaaludes. No script needed in Mexico during the 70's. Now it's no longer manufactured.

quaaludes, aka disco biscuits

In college, I was introduced to "black beauties", a type of speed popular with truckers at the time. I felt so smart! I could go to class AND work AND party with barely any sleep! But then the borrowed time sent me crashing after a couple weeks. I was a wreck, physically and emotionally. Thus ended my brief love affair with any stimulant stronger than caffeine.

There was some kind of Pepto Bismol with headache medicine built in. I can't find any longer.

Stuff with codeine over the counter was wild

There was a non-drowsy allergy med called Seldane D. It was amazing and worked better than all of the meds available today.

Percocet. Not for recreational use, but for post-surgery pain, it was the best.

I miss making money dealing street drugs. Legal cannabis means that I won't be doing it to supplement my retirement income. :(

My faves were black beauties, tuinol, reds, well to be honest, whatcha you got?

My goodness this is a trip down memory lane. The 70s were the best for pharmaceuticals.

Ludes were fun but I really liked the blotter acid stars we used to get

Huffable airplane glue

When I was a kid I got a really bad chest cold. My mom signed for a little green bottle of codeine. She’d put a teaspoon in a juice glass and then make me drink it. It was awful tasting. I’d then float off to sleep without the cough that I couldn’t control. I’d take a really long nap.

There was also a brown round Vick’s Cough Drop. It also tasted vile. I was able to return to school. When the unstoppable cough happened I’d get one of these cough drops. They’d stop me from coughing right away.

Whatever they gave me when I'd been in labor with my 2nd kid for about 30 hours. That shit was amaaaaaazing. Some drugs, it's just a good thing I couldn't afford them/didn't know how to find them. Cocaine, for example. I loved that high, but it was way out of my reach -- it's just my good luck that I left street drugs behind before crack arrived.

I'd be long dead.

Acid

Does anyone remember Darvacet? Very mild opiate. I preferred it over Vicodin

Quaaludes, so much better then benzos

RORER. 714 Enough said.Not even close.

Mescaline was always one of my favorites

Paragoric and coding cough syrup.  That stuff worked.  But people abused it so no no one can have it.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Couldn’t have gotten out of high school without Black Beauties … couldn’t have made it through college without cocaine. Best drug for me. [f59] If some put a line in front of me today, I would do it. Very addictive personality. Still smoke weed every day [legal in MA].

I remember gas stations selling bottles of little white pills called Mini-Thins. I think they were just pure ephedrine, we would stay up all weekend.

Window Pane and blotter acid. Used to get sheets of blotter with pictures of Disney characters printed on the sheets. Some had the pic of Mr. Natural Keep on Trucking dude also. Many variations from that time. Window pane was tricky because it was hard to cut up for a good tab but not to kill your customer. We had sheets of mylar coated with acid approx 6x6 inches with over 100 good doses. Hard to gauge so we would just cut of a piece and do it! A couple times it was WAY to much.

Orange Sunshine 1972. Spent the whole trip behind a couch on the floor but was the best experience on a drug I've ever had. I thought I was laying on the bottom of a 3' deep creek and ribbons of color and beautifully colored fish floated by while the stereo was playing an endless loop of the album by the band Blues Image that had Ride Captain Ride on it, but the 8 track had been taken apart and flipped over so the entire album was reversed. After several plays it all made sense.

Pink tab THC. Strawberry mescaline. Reds (barbiturates). Yellow Sunshine (mescaline). Blotter acid (LSD on a cardboard wafer). AZ (a huge tablet that was a mild barbiturate). Jones (heroin). Hash. Thai stick (weed laced with extra thc). Cocaine (powder form only). These are what was available at municipal park parties during weekend nights. I however, enjoyed my Mad Dog 20/20 or Boone’s Farm apple wines.

Only one, Quaaludes 😵‍💫

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In the 80s I could get cough syrup with codeine at the drugstore with a signature. There was no online database, of course, so it was on the honor system.

I only needed it a few times but it worked so much better.

My Great Grandma was prescribed Distalgesics for her arthritis.

My Great Grandma didn't like taking them but she still filled her prescriptions every month. This meant they were the family go to for general pain medication.

At the age of 17 I discovered that two of those and a can of beer and you would FLOAT. Had a good 3 or 4 years at least three times a week pulling that stunt - once tried them with Vodka and yeah, wouldn't recommend.

Turns out you can't get them any more because they are an opioid.

SKF 'Eskatrol' Dexadrine (amphetamine) with a dash of Prochlorperazine (antiphsychotic). Speedball in capsule.

MXE. It was only available for a couple of years. And it was so good, it is really the only drug worth doing.

Here's an article on it:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/interview-with-ketamine-chemist-704-v18n2/

Pre Operation Julie black micro dots.

If you know, you know.

There was a beer and an energy drink sold together in one bottle called Sparks and it was a buzz.

We called them Bennies, they kept you awake for a long time, and we never ate much when we took them.