Vineland / drug lore---GR or V

jd wescac at gmail.com
Fri Mar 3 11:13:11 CST 2006


Hah, that's great... it's always fun to walk into a room and convince
people you're an Irish immigrant named Percival McGillicudtty (I might
be spelling the name wrong, but it's a rather tasty peppertmin
schnapps - McGillicutty's, who handed down his recipe and his dueling
pistols to his son, something like that).  See how long you can keep
it up.

On 3/3/06, hilary y <hilbeanie at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Although Drug lore is mot my fprimary interest, I grew up with it (such a
> nice, naive time back then,) when I was young and growing up the SF Bay area
> in the70s, you could get a report on KSAN every Friday morning detailing
> whether the acid or whatever was, was high grade.  You could send it in to
> the lab and they would test it and then the window pane with Mr Natural
> stamped on it would be reported as pure or not...(I  am sure that dealers
> sent in their own for the free advertisement!)
>  As for Ecstacy...I had friends in High School that took it in Berkeley (the
> new MMDA) in the late 70s and early 80s, which is the around the same time
> that some folks claim that Pynchon lurked around Berkeley...an acquaintance
> of mine says that Pynchon was fun to be around but, kept giving out funny
> names out at parties...was flirtatious and obnxious.
>
>  (I ws too much of a prude to take X back then but, later heard so much
> about it in the 80s that I ended ! up taking it  -  with my MOM...)
>
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> Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On 3/2/06, Brent Dannell wrote:
> > A hole in my druglore knowledge, but the significance of white mescaline?
> > Is it perhaps synthetic as opposed to a derivation of peyote-- Clockwork
> > Orange's synthmesc?
>
> nothing so deep, it's just a variety that was floating around back in
> the 70s in my neck of the woods that was meditative and
> thought-provoking
>
> revealing the shallowness of my dope lore, I never actually had
> windowpane (though did get several flavors of microdot over the years,
> some blotter, and an awesomely efficacious litte white pill one time
> from a bearded guy in the park that he called white lightning -- who
> knows what we were buying in those days?)
>
> nor X -! the first I heard of it was in 1985 when I read in the paper
> that it had been made a scheduled drug - Damn, I said, got to keep up
> better! It was legal up till then, like LSD before 1965
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