VLVL Drugs

[Terrance]

He looked around frantically for the nearest drug 

I keep forgetting, suicide used to be your old life style


She was referring to what he had a way of calling his "interesting work
with airplanes" during World War II. 

VL.175

They'd been married during a classical sixties acid trip

VL.159

Like Zoyd and Frenzy. VL38

The Hobbes family hooked up on an acid trip too, but stuck together.
VL48

Vato and Blood take speed too. In fact they cop some from Takeshi.
VL.178-179

DL has been using speed and booze for years. In fact, when she saves
Frenzy she's just come from a high speed and booze chase. VL115-116

She also smokes a lot. Sister Rochelle smokes and drinks too. Coffee is
popular with these characters as well. They eat junk food. They suffer
from all sorts of disorders, including eating disorders and grudge
disorders. They don't know how to forgive. That's their biggest problem.
That, and the fact that they blame everyone else for their problems. Not
a healthy crew. 




jbor wrote:
> 
> DL "objected philosophically to all drugs" (101.10) but yet dropped a whole
> lot of speed in her sex romp with Ralph in Tokyo (140.1-4).
> 
> And:
> 
>     ... Takeshi waited, reached for his Georgian silver snuff box,
>     where the *shabu* were. (147.15-16)
> 
> *Shabu* = speed.
> 
> http://www.taima.org/en/speed.htm
> 
> Where did shabu come from? Amphetamines were first synthesized in 1887 in
> Germany. In 1919 methamphetamine was first produced in Japan. During the
> 1940s the Japanese government distributed amphetamine pills to soldiers,
> sailors and pilots as well as to arms factory workers, to mobilize all their
> reserves for the war effort. Pilots routinely used the drug to remain awake
> and alert for long periods on long distance bombing missions.
> 
> After 1945 large stocks of the drug from looted military supplies flooded
> the market and no doubt some people used it to suppress the hunger during
> the starvation period of those chaotic years. In 1952 the drug was made
> illegal and instantly became a reliable source of cash for the yakuza gangs.
> During the 1950s as many as 55,000 Japanese per year were arrested for
> amphetamines. Because of this history, shabu is still associated with the
> shame of the lost war by the older generation, which is why all illegal
> drugs have become a taboo subject in otherwise fairly non-puritanical Japan.
> 
> best