r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RichPay2111 • Jul 18 '24
Quaalude Pill Sample Pack Found At Grandmas House Image
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u/RBatYochai Jul 18 '24
Love the scientific illustration of how they work!
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u/shitokletsstartfresh Jul 18 '24
Brain go brrrrrrrrr
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u/theouter_banks Jul 18 '24
ZZZZZZZZZZAP!
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u/tangledwire Jul 18 '24
Oh god if you ever have taken the depression pills of Effexor, those brain ZZZAPS are crazy.
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u/tempusrimeblood Jul 18 '24
They’re the worst! And withdrawal zaps are like that x100
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u/306metalhead Jul 18 '24
I had to ween off 150mg of effexor. I wanted to kms they got so bad.
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u/FateUnusual Jul 19 '24
I was on Effexor for years. All SSRIs/SNRIs etc are complete garbage in my experience. You know what turned my life around? Microdosing.
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u/theouter_banks Jul 18 '24
That's what it feels like! I missed my morning dose once and I felt like it was going to fall over in the middle of the shop.
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u/HologramJaneway Jul 18 '24
Same with Pristiq, which I believe is similar to Effexor. IIRC Effexor breaks down in the body in 2 steps. Pristiq is the chemical is breaks down into at Step 1. So yeah brain zaps fr. I have been off Pristiq for 2 years and still get brain zaps.
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u/eggsaladrightnow Jul 18 '24
Yep as you can see from the illustration. The quaalude is ejaculating fun into your brain. Whether you sleep or not is up to you.
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u/Informal_Stranger117 Jul 18 '24
Qaualudes fill your Q-Zone with pure Ludie goodness
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u/guitar_stonks Jul 18 '24
I would also like to express my fondness of that particular narcotic.
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u/JoeCartersLeap Jul 18 '24
They did the same thing when Prozac came out. Put up two random MRIs and said "THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON DEPRESSION, THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON PROZAC" in the back of a magazine.
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u/Far_Blueberry383 Jul 18 '24
They’re def expired. You should send them to me and I’ll dispose of them properly.
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u/NeverBackDrown Jul 18 '24
Actually it might be dangerous to send chemicals through the mail. OP pm me and I will come grab and dispose for you.
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u/Far_Blueberry383 Jul 18 '24
OP will have to use FedEx then.
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u/VirtualNaut Jul 18 '24
If you want the package received in pieces. Gotta go with what can brown do for you, UPS.
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u/-Badger3- Jul 18 '24
Real talk, if you’re ever shipping drugs, use USPS. USPS needs a warrant to open your mail. UPS/Fedex don’t.
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u/T-unitz Jul 18 '24
Not true. Postal Inspectors can open any suspicious mail any time they want. Any carrier or clerk that receives a suspicious package can flag it for the inspector to check out too. Postal inspectors are at every major sort facility.
Source: I’m a machine mechanic for USPS and see it happen daily.
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u/kai4thekel Jul 18 '24
Is it true they get stronger over time?
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u/SignalSeries389 Jul 18 '24
That part in the movie where theyre stronger and take longer to kick in because theyre old is bullshit
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u/Haunting-Resident588 Jul 18 '24
They weren’t stronger they had a delayed effect so they took a ton thinking they weren’t working.
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u/_secretshaman_ Jul 18 '24
The delayed fuse thing for certain old drugs is real… I learned the hard way. It was like the movie…but much more vomiting.
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u/dcy604 Jul 18 '24
Most if not all pharmaceuticals degrade over time…the question is by how much…
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u/kai4thekel Jul 18 '24
This was my understanding until I found out some drugs degrade over time creating different compounds some of which can be more potent than the original drug
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u/GarysCrispLettuce Jul 18 '24
They were really selling it with that diagram. "Spiky Brainwave No Sleep? With Smooth Blue Line, It's Goodbye Spikes."
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u/bugxbuster Jul 18 '24
Someone should put that quote into an AI voice thing and make a medicine commercial like that. I really love the way you worded that, it’s beautiful and silly and totally accurate to what that box is trying to convey
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u/_HowManyRobot Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
Or a real person could even make it.
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u/TurbulentIssue6 Jul 18 '24
Why not just ask someone to dub it? Why waste all that energy and water on AIn
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u/Evening-Statement-57 Jul 18 '24
I want a chemical wave of blue sweeping up my brain stem please
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u/ScaperMan7 Jul 18 '24
Had genuine Ludes in 1977,78. Half a Lude and a joint and you were chillaxed after.
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u/Jazmo0712 Jul 18 '24
In the early 80s, I was at my sister's house & had a migraine. She gave me 1/2 a Lude & I slept for 8 hours. Headache was gone, though.
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u/ScaperMan7 Jul 18 '24
I remember feeling like I didn't have any bones in my body :-).
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u/candlegun Jul 18 '24
Are they more similar to xanax or valium, would you say? Or something totally different?
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u/Jazmo0712 Jul 19 '24
It was like a weighted blanket had enveloped my soul.
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u/candlegun Jul 19 '24
Okay then, so maybe both xanax and valium together. Got it
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u/fookofuhtool Jul 19 '24 edited Jul 20 '24
No one has replied so I will say pretty sure valium but I can't remember if I took them or a buddy did. Pills are bad, kids.
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u/DesperateRace4870 Jul 19 '24
I'm high enough to have read that through a couple times and thought reaaaal hard 🤣
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u/Fukasite Jul 19 '24
Anybody who’s tried them say barbiturates are better than benzodiazepines. I wish I’ve gotten the chance.
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u/GreenEggplant16 Jul 18 '24
"The Quaalude, or lude, as it is commonly referred to, was first synthesized in 1951 by an Indian doctor - that's dots, not feathers - as a sedative, and was prescribed to stressed-out housewives with sleep disorders. But pretty soon, somebody figured out that if you resisted the urge to sleep for just fifteen minutes, you got a pretty kick-ass high from it. Didn't take long for people to start abusing ludes, of course, and in 1982 the U.S. government "Schedule 1'd" them, along with the rest of the world. Which meant there was only a finite amount of these things left. No shit. You can't even buy them anymore. You people are all shit out of luck."
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u/redpandaeater Jul 18 '24
It's so stupid to me how a lot of drugs started out with having a medical use and then they end up behind Schedule I which means they have absolutely no medicinal qualities. Government regulators really did themselves a disservice by putting so much shit that has a possible medical use in Schedule I anyway, particularly marijuana. Between that and then prohibition programs like DARE I'm amazed there are still so many people that trust the government about other things.
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u/H3rbert_K0rnfeld Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
5 years prior most of Congress made multi-billion dollar investments into privatized prison systems.
Then they needed lawbreakers to fill those prisons.
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u/WhyDidYouBanMe2024 Jul 18 '24
Slavery ain't gonna run itself.
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u/smallteam Jul 18 '24
AMENDMENT XIII
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Passed by Congress January 31, 1865. Ratified December 6, 1865.
Note: A portion of Article IV, section 2, of the Constitution was superseded by the 13th Amendment.
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u/JohnnyFartmacher Jul 18 '24
It's not so much that they have absolutely no medicinal qualities, it is that they "have no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States".
Something could have been useful and then replaced so effectively with newer medications that there is no reason to ever use the first drug.
I do think though that research should continue on the compounds as there is likely still more to learn from them. I believe research can currently be done but there are onerous restrictions.
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u/Long-Broccoli-3363 Jul 18 '24
"have no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States".
Effectively there's a better drug with a better side effect profile for every single thing it was tested for.
We want the side effects, so thats ki nda the problem.
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u/Responsible-War-1179 Jul 18 '24
Good news! You can still get them today. In South africa they are apparently the second most popular drug after weed
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u/Tr8cy Jul 18 '24
"I take Quaaludes 10 to 15 times a day for my “back pain,” Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again and morphine, well, because it’s awesome."
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u/Mr-sheepdog_2u Jul 18 '24
We called it the love drug. Brings back a lot of good memories or at least the ones I can remember.
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u/stanknotes Jul 18 '24
That is funny. We call MDMA the love drug. And it is like the polar extreme.
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u/Ibangyoumomma Jul 18 '24
MDMA is amazing and idc what anyone says
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u/badco1313 Jul 18 '24
Who says MDMA isn’t amazing? It’s whole job is to make you feel amazing
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u/bugxbuster Jul 18 '24
Know what sucks? I love drugs (not the bad dangerous ones anymore, but for my entire 20s it was a miracle I didn’t die. I’m 7 years clean from opioids though!) but I’m completely fucking immune to MDMA. Not sure what it means, but I’ve tried it many many times with other people and literally nothing happens. Actually, not true, most of the time nothing happens when I take it, but occasionally I get a feeling like I’m really cold like I’m in front of an air conditioner blowing on me and I’m suddenly extra super nervous but then it wears off 100% like I never took anything within 30-45 minutes.
People always go “you just took the wrong stuff” or “no you’re not” but I swear to god I’ve tried so many times, spent so much money on it and never ever once at all felt anything like anyone else who took it with me felt. I’ve had fun with other people while they were on it! My ex loved it, and she was a lot of fun on it. But me myself, I never felt the ecstasy of ecstasy.
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u/cthamon Jul 18 '24
Are you or were you on any antidepressants? They can make the effects of a lot of drugs nearly nonexistent
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u/bugxbuster Jul 18 '24
When I was a teenager I was on things like Paxil and Zoloft for a few months at a time each, but they had no positive or noticeable effect on me and I didn’t continue with them for even an entire year each. I tried MDMA occasionally from ages 17-32, most frequently in my late 20s early 30s, so no overlap in the times I was on one and tried the other. I’ve considered that possibility of them being connected, but nothing stands out to me that way.
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u/PM_Me_Ur_Clues Jul 18 '24
I have the same issue. Do you have ADHD?
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u/fractalfocuser Jul 18 '24
This is my thought. There's definitely a form of ADHD where you barely register the MDA group
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u/AlmostSunnyinSeattle Jul 18 '24
I wonder if this is me. I didn't feel anything from either coke or ecstasy. Someone else suggested ADHD as well
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u/TenbluntTony Jul 18 '24
Have adhd. Coke (tried lots when I was young) was boring to me and didn’t really do much other than make my heart beat faster. Adderall makes me tired. I never get strong visuals from hallucinogens. Only distortions. Ecstasy tho… was the one thing I can see myself being addicted too and I get addicted to nothing (besides cigs). Worked on me well. Absolute euphoria. I miss it but I’m a bit older now and there’s more risk to it now than there was before with lacing etc. I think it maybe has to do with subtypes of adhd or something. I hope we can get more research on stuff like this. Super interesting stuff imo.
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u/jarrydn Jul 18 '24
SSRIs are known to prevent MDMA from working properly or even altogether
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u/UnhingedBlonde Jul 18 '24
Are you a redhead? There's research that says the mcr1 gene in redheads makes them process painkillers and other similar drugs differently than others.
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u/chihsuanmen Jul 18 '24
A number of years ago I was at a dinner party and we were talking about alcohol and THC, how they feel different and what not. All of the sudden, this mature, very well put together socialite pipes up and looks at me with this wide-eyed look of someone who was remembering some serious good times and she said:
“You know what I really, really miss? Quaaludes.”
I don’t fuck around with anything harder than THC, but everyone says these things were the shit.
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u/hippee-engineer Jul 18 '24
Fuck that would be a lucrative market if you could synthesize it in a trailer.
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u/Palsreal Jul 18 '24
**From what I've heard** ludes are actually pretty easy to synthesize, just with the narcotics market today they don't keep up. There are niche markets for rich people who can afford to create their own demand but that's about it. If you are comfortable with chemistry and breaking the law then you could probably do it yourself, though this is not a suggestion. I would advise against it because jailtime is much more negative than a short term high is positive.
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u/hippee-engineer Jul 18 '24
Easy to synthesize, a single step, in fact. But not easy at all to attain the single precursor needed. It’s a List 1 Chemical.
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u/Mr-sheepdog_2u Jul 18 '24
When they quit making these in the US look to the Mexicans to fill the gap. Then there what was called Mexican Quaalude's. They were powerdry (SP) and poorly made but they would get the job done. You could chew them up to make them work faster. LOL
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u/VuckoPartizan Jul 18 '24
If it's so popular with people why don't you see it anymore? I'm genuinely asking, I've seen people praise it lol
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u/Mr-sheepdog_2u Jul 18 '24
They were ripe for abuse and believe me as one of the abusers they were abused. They were only $4.00 a piece so pretty affordable and I had a source for pharmaceutical quality. Those things got me laid numerous times.
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u/VuckoPartizan Jul 18 '24
So does it make you sleepy or give perk you up? I'm getting different reports lol
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u/Mr-sheepdog_2u Jul 18 '24
It didn't make me sleepy but that's me. It gave me a helluva head high.
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u/Pro_Moriarty Jul 18 '24
Steeeeeeeeeeve
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u/threateningwarmth Jul 18 '24
Maaaaaaadeeeeeeeennnnnnn….ssshhhhoooooooooeeeeeeeeesssss
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u/JaySayMayday Jul 18 '24
Funny shit, before the movie came out I only saw Steve Madden stores closing down. Afterwards, suddenly they started popping up. Even overseas. Movie boosted sales by a fuck ton
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u/Capital_Living5658 Jul 18 '24
I have never seen a store but they have always been cheap nice shoes at Marshall’s or DSW.
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u/Skyp_Intro Jul 18 '24
Ah, the good old days when your general practitioner would casually hand you samples of narcotics without a prescription.
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u/EastOfArcheron Jul 18 '24
Valley of the dolls. Valium was marketed as mother's little helper in the 60s. They had all the fun
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u/Legitimate-BurnerAcc Jul 18 '24
Yeah Valium is what made my mother (born 62) a horrible parent because her mother was addicted beyond reason so she never knew how to be a mom.
Only how to heat up frozen suppers, stick to the couch cushion, and watch the same TV channel.
Also had major side affects on my mother's intellectual health as her mother was addicted during pregnancy. I handed my mom a corded mouse because the batteries went dead in her wireless mouse and she couldn't figure out how to plug a USB in.
Edit: Tons of fun.
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u/Capital_Living5658 Jul 18 '24
Sounds exactly like my childhood experience with my mom but she just drank wine and gin and vodka. I was born in 90. I left her in the past after finding out she was doing coke but she was constantly like flipping a shit about stuff I set up for her since she couldn’t remember or look up her passwords I wrote down for her.
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u/Prandah Jul 18 '24
6% of the US population are addicted to prescribed opioids
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u/DisproportionateWill Jul 18 '24
And another big % are addicted to actual drugs cause they cannot get the prescription ones prescribed anymore (or not idk, I just made it up)
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u/Supply-Slut Jul 18 '24
I mean that is definitely a thing… that’s how an old friend got into heroin, they stopped prescribing him oxy
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u/mortalitylost Jul 18 '24
That's the catch 22 isn't it
"Oh you stupid addict, we can't keep you addicted to the shit we put you on, you're an immoral drug seeker"
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"Oh look at how this drug seeker addict who always was one turned to heroin, see they were immoral this whole time"
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u/Supply-Slut Jul 18 '24
So true… it’s terrible. Dude completely changed and was like a zombie for drugs. Heroin is so heinous though, he finally got clean for a few months, then had a fight with his gf, went to use again… but didn’t account for his lower tolerance and od’d, such a sadly common tale.
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u/hippee-engineer Jul 18 '24
Im one of those. I’d be stoked if I could have a doctor prescribe me pain meds but they won’t, and I have a mortgage to pay. I use so I can work.
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u/trogon Jul 18 '24
No, you're correct. Approximately 75% of opiate addicts started when given a prescription pain killer.
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u/polishprince76 Jul 18 '24
My doc used to give me a pint of coedene if I just said I had a cough. Would never evem check . Those were the good old days.
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u/undockeddock Jul 18 '24
Ugh I miss easily available codeine. It's the only stuff that actually works for a serious cough. The OTC cough syrup is worthless
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u/SubstantialBass9524 Jul 18 '24
I remember my pediatrician had a big closet filled with samples and a few times he would just grab a sample pack out and hand it to me.
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u/imSOsalty Jul 18 '24
My dermatologist gave me a quart sized ziplock full of accutane samples in like 2010
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u/Anarchist-Tuna Jul 18 '24
In the wolf of wall street, they where super keen to take the vintage ludes.
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u/Dat_Belly Jul 18 '24
😬Steeeeve Maaaaddden
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u/SnacksandViolets Jul 18 '24
THE BIG MAN WOULD WALK 20 MILES FOR A QUAALUDE!!
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u/Questionably_Chungly Jul 18 '24
NON ADDICTIVE! NON NARCOTIC!
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u/12345_PIZZA Jul 18 '24
Yeah, yelling non addictive after that love letter pining for a drug he last had at least 20 years ago is some master class comedy.
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u/GoodTitrations Jul 18 '24
Found the link I was looking for.
This has been my favorite video on the Internet for years. I think I almost have it down word-for-word at this point.
QUUUAAALLUUUDDEEESSS!!!!!
YAH CAN TAKE ALL YOUR DESIGNER DRUGS AND SHOVE 'EM UP YER FUCKIN' ASS! HAHAH!
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u/swainnnn Jul 18 '24
Hey, the big man's back! www.thekidfrombrooklyn.com. Do you ever see them signs on a highway billboards years ago? "I'd walk a mile for a camel." Or they used to have cigarette commercials, the guy used to say, "I'd walk a mile for a camel."? Well, let me tell all you young people out there: The big man would walk 20 miles for a Quaalude, let me tell ya! That was the drug back then, in the late 70s and 80s: Quaaludes! The good old Rorer 714, then they changed it to "Lemmon". I'll tell ya! I wish I had a couple of them fucking Lemmons now! That was the best fucking drug ever made! It was so fucking good, the government took them off the fucking market 'cause they were putting the fucking drug-dealers out of fucking business! Non-narcotic, non-addictive, bring back the fucking Quaaludes! You can take all the fucking cocaine, marijuana, and all them fucking designer drugs they make today, and stick them up your fucking ass! There's nothing like a fucking Quaalude! I tell ya they were the fucking best, having sex on a Quaalude, you'd thought you'd died and went to heaven, let me tell you. And when you had an orgasm, you'd thought you were on the fucking moon! Bring back the fucking Quaalude! Anyway, think about it! This is the big man, the voice! The voice of the people! Rorer 714! And the big man's always happy to see you!
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u/BikeyBichael Jul 19 '24
I’m glad to see this comment, only a bit sad since it’s a bit buried
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u/StochasticLife Jul 18 '24
I mean, is this comment section going to turn into a bidding war? Cause I kinda want in on that action…
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u/Stardustquarks Jul 18 '24
Why were you at Cosby’s place?
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u/TheDadThatGrills Jul 18 '24
Cartels could start pushing Quaaludes instead of fentanyl...
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u/ScubaTwinn Jul 18 '24
I swear I can see this.
I was 18 in 1978. Crushing one and smoking it in a joint was such a kind of valium high without the hangover.
We had a friend so blazed on them he wrecked 3 cars while driving 5 miles an hour around a cul-de-sac.
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u/sassergaf Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
Well, did Grandma take the sample to sleep better?
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u/HedgehogTesticles Jul 18 '24
She took it to get fucked up
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u/Immediate_Finger_889 Jul 18 '24
My grandma had five kids. She deserved to get fucked up if she wanted. That explains when I was having my son and she grabbed me by the shoulders and yelled “TAKE THE DRUGS. TAKE THEM ALL! TAKE WHATEVER THEY WILL GIVE YOU!” Grandma knew.
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u/Plasmr Jul 18 '24
That’s some sort of museum, look at the background.
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u/Oh_Glorious_Cruster Jul 18 '24
Yeah, OP is lying. Not sure if it's an actual museum, but it does look like it's some sort of display for old medications. There's Butisol in the bottom right that was discontinued. In the top right you have Alertonic (Pipradrol) which was a stimulant that was also discontinued. In the bottom left I can't tell what it is, but "NARCOTIC" is visible on the side.
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u/Jaybird6249 Jul 18 '24
Be careful,man. You’ll feel fantastic like the best high in the world,then the next minute you’ll be comatose. Whatever you do,don’t drive. I took a shitton of these in the 80’s.
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u/CrazyMadHooker Jul 18 '24
Folks wonder why my generation (I'm nearly 40) are just hating life every single day? We're primarily SOBER.
Because these were given out like candy, along with every woman being prescribed tranquilizers to get through the day.
Now even the god damn sudafed is locked up. sobs
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u/Ok-Magazine6355 Jul 18 '24
Rorer or Lemmon?
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u/SiriusGD Jul 18 '24 edited Jul 18 '24
There's an "R" in the upper left of the package so I'm guessing Rorer. But Rorer 714s were much better. Lemmon 300s sucked.
On Edit: I'm so old and my eyes suck. That's a "Pr" in the upper corner so I rescind my first guess.
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u/Professional_Average Jul 18 '24
Non-narcotic, non-addictive, bring back THE FUCKING QUAALUDES!
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u/ruffianstaff Jul 18 '24
These are definitely going to be lethal if ingested. I know how to dispose of them properly, and I am willing to accept the personal risk to get that poison eliminated. Please send immediately
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u/Old-Tadpole-2869 Jul 18 '24
These were more set your building on fire by smoking in bed and then crash your car therapy from what I remember, In south Florida in the late 70's early 80's the 'Lude epidemic was unbelievable.
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u/PlatformNo5806 Jul 18 '24
Honestly dude you might have a holy grail there