Quaaludes, closest drug currently around to Quaaludes

Man...did I!

But, I lived to tell about it.

 

Coke was my choice for this purpose. It did the job well, with few side effects.

 

hey I remember this thread, it came up in a google search a few months ago when I was trying to figure out how the hell the wolf of wall street was getting Quaaludes in 1995.

I haven't had any interest in popping pills since my very early 20s but if I could get my hands on a real Quaalude I can't say I would pass it up.

 

My wife died of soma. She would forget she had just taken 5~10 at a time and take more. Her mom found her dead. Soma is hard to get around here now

 

I'm sorry to hear that about your wife.

 

"Can't speak a word when you're full of 'ludes"

 

In 1982, I had a CRAZY speed freak allergist doctor in North Jersey who prescribed me 60, 300mg ludes every 2 weeks. I'd have 40 presold at $5 a pop, and kept 20 for our heads. These were the real Lem 714s and before that, the Rohr 714s. How does one describe how ludes feel? Well, it's sort of like a dry drunk mixed with silly putty, with a huge dollop of where the fuck are my smokes to boot. We invented a great game we called Ludopoly. It was a standard game of Monopoly, but with a very evil twist. We'd all start with 4 full ludes each, and score them into quarters. Every time we had to pay a fine from either the Community Chest or the Chance cards, we also had to deposit a quarter of a lude into the middle of the board. Subsequently, whoever landed on Free Parking had to take everything that was sitting in the middle. Needless to say, we never once finished a game I read further down in this thread that someone was comparing benzos to the real 714s, and saying that they were very close. My only response to that is a rueful grin on my face and a slow shaking of my head. NOTHING compared to the real McCoys. After they had disappeared, there were these French ludes going around that just sucked beyond belief, and all they did was make us sad, and longing for the good ol days. I can't ever remember a prescription drug just vanishing overnight the way 714s have done. And oh, by the way. For any nay-sayers reading this, I was born in 1954 <grin>

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A Closed mouth gathers no feet......

 

Quaaludes, closest drug currently around to Quaaludes

 

Straticus is right, benzos, etc. are completely different from Quaaludes. There is NOTHING like a Quaalude. I lived in Daytona Beach in the 70s and my roommate Sally and I were pretty much the Quaalude queens of Braddock Avenue. It was the best drug ever. i never liked speed or coke. I was an anxious person and needed downers. I took a half a Quaalude every morning before going to my college classes, majoring in sociology and psychology. Then I took another half around 5 PM. I was on the Dean's list, straight As, and I functioned well. I didn't drink it all. Let me explain what the Quaalude high feels like; if you're straight, not drinking or smoking weed, about 15 minutes after taking the tablet you feel happiness pour over you beginning in your brain, then taking over your entire being. You get the sense that all is right with the world, you have the realization that the world is a good place and people are good and nothing that you were worrying about before is actually real. It lasts two or three hours slowly wearing off and then you're fine, not sleepy, not withdrawing, not desperately needing more. Some people were taking them by the handful, Which I considered a waste. That wasn't necessary, and those people generally drank beer alongside it and then passed out. I took Quaaludes every day from about 1977 until 1982. I stopped taking them because I had fallen in love with a young man who was so straight-edge I knew he'd break up with me if he found out why I was so happy and awesome. I stashed two in my jewelry box, and never touched them again. They disappeared from my jewelry box somehow, I suspected my roommate. There was no withdrawal, no ill effects. Taking them off the market because of some dumbasses who abused them and hurt themselves, just ruined it for everybody. I've said this a dozen times, and I stand by it now, if everyone in the world was allowed to take one Quaalude a day the world would be a wonderful place. Please bring them back and make them available to everyone.

 

The GOOD old days ... My buddy and I had both just got out of the army,...got an apartment together and he got a part time job at the neighbor hood pharmacy as the night cleanup guy. man o man every night he'd come home with tons of 714's full bottles of 10mg valium , black beauties, dexedrine, ect. ect. Needless to say we were living large,...a 714 and off to the night clubs we would go and yes many fender benders lol,...they were bar none my favorite high to this day ! He use to also get AS's orange pills with a AS stamp but not the kick of the rohr's. Anyhow I had to chime in as the 70's were some of the best times !!

 

I feel the need for self-disclosure. Maybe I'm having a 714 flashback. No, flashbacks are a different drug. In a different life 35 years ago I was, to be blunt, a self-proclaimed bootleg Quaalude expert. It was by necessity. Because well, we sold them. Miami in the 80's was drug central. Cocaine, Quaaludes and tons of weed. The trifecta of hard partying. 714 would knock you down, Coke would pick you back up, weed would mellow you out. The boot Q's were $1 apiece when you bought them 100,000 at a time. Sell them all day in hundred lots for $2. Thousand lots for $1.75. Do the math. The original ones we were picking up in the early 80's were a lot like the real thing. In hindsight now, I think when you paired them with coke, you could almost call them a date rape drug. The girls got really loose when they took them with alcohol. I know more than one person who would pass them out to the guys at a party, then bring out the coke and start hitting on their girl friends when their Bf's became somewhat incapacitated. As a previous person said, they started putting some heavy tranqs like Thorazine in them. People started getting hurt. I went to drop off a batch and the guy came to the door eating chile out of an ashtray and flipping his cigarette in his chile bowl. His mouth was all black full of ashes. He was clueless. That was the beginning of the end. Benzodiazepines are probably the closest family to them now, Zanex, Valium. I don't recommend them. Highly addictive. Study up on the "half life" of drugs and you will find out why. They are brutal. Those drugs along with the Opiates release so much dopamine into your system your nerve receptors are being hit with a sledge hammer. For most of us who survived the drug wars of the 80's there is no desire to return. I refer to it as "the lost decade." I get high on life now days. It's nice when something as simple as a sunset can release the dopamine into your brain. The best part is, I can remember the sunset the next day.

 

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What is Soma?

 

Soma?



Probably many things... It's an ancient name, like 2000-4000 years ancient.



I did something called soma back in the late 80's, a deadhead had it, it was a psychoactive white powder that was ingested. It was a pretty good trip, mildly visual, somewhat "acid like" feeling, very introspective head-space... Problem was it fucked up my guitar playing forever. I got it in my head that "I can't jam with people" because we were playing and I couldn't follow along. To this day I can't do a normal "jam". Different if we are playing something I wrote, but if it's one of the old standards I'm lost.



I don't think what is called soma today is the same drug.

 

Ok. Gonna try to cover this in a way using "verbology" to make sense to the group between "too young to have seen Jerry, and the chick on lot telling you she has the last ludes on the planet" and "synthesized every-friggin-thing"/"mix a bunch of shit together and it feels like", to try to bridge the gap of understanding...lol
First: THERE IS NOTHING ON THE MARKET LIKE LUDES! (available in the US...) They were their own animal...and an awfully warm and fuzzy animal at that! Second: I was born in the '70's, so knew nothing about ludes when still available, BUT, I did party my rear off in my late teens early 20's and knew at that time what they were, had seen the chick on lot declaring she was selling the last ludes on the planet (fell for it once). I also had a grandmother that didn't like anything that made her feel "that loopy", who also NEVER threw anything like medicine or the like away (SERIOUSLY...she thought people just sat around waiting for old people to throw out their trash to go through it...love ya Granny...). After she passed, we were cleaning out cabinets, boxes, dressers, etc. Came across script bottles you could tell were ancient. We threw them all in a big box to take home and dispose of (and I was using it as an opportunity to rummage and see if there was anything cool, lol). Long story short, there was... She had a couple kinds of barbies and 7 of the "Holy Grail", 714's! As I said, I rock and rolled my 20's, as well as having been on benzo's since late teens... LUDES are amazing...no combo, no synth is going to get it...had close buzzes...but man, I sold off those other 5 for way to cheap.
POINT IS...LUDES are LUDES... ANY/EVERYTHING else you come up with is not, nor will it feel like it. STOP taking this shit that will shit on your rug for the rest of your life trying to reach a destination you aren't gonna be able to. (applying that to all these crazy chems)
To quote Dennis Leary, "I wanna met the guy that came up with crack...I wanna know who the fuck 'coke' wasn't good enough for!" Seriously...TRIED AND TRUE OR DEAD AND BLUE
Be blessed and enjoy your trips around the sun!

 

I guess you could label me as a recreational drug experimenalist/adventurist (not proper terms, but who's counting). I use script Soma, Norco & cannabis. Unfortunately, I have never had the opportunity to pop a lude; however, if I were to guess, this combo might just be the ticket for those of you who miss the Quaalude high. OH! & it lasts longer than a half an hour (at least for me). If anyone's a Soma user & gets the "jerks" or that I-gotta-move-around sensasion, smoke, eat, vape some weed. Oh, yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... It makes that weirdish feeling vanish, & those w/ the opies, well, all I can offer is: "aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh...," a homemade lude.

 

pee ess: ssshhhhhh...but I think cocaine took over in the 80s, & maybe why Quaaludes possibly just went out of style(?). Just a thought.