snippet history of 'that useful substance' in America

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"harder drugs were on the rise"

Joe Friday: Marijuana is the match; heroin is the fuse; and LSD is the bomb.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: "pynchon -l" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 7:53 AM
Subject: snippet history of 'that useful substance' in America


>
> "Joe mentions PCP, recalling a batch of that substance that moved through 
> Fort Worth, Texas in the late 1971-early 1972 period, introduced as 
> "synthetic THC","
>
> A quick perusal of snippets online of a couple--three histories of drugs 
> in America, mentions that PCP entered @ this time period....
>
> And, the histories indicate that the mass heyday of pot--'that useful 
> substance'-TRP---was around the time C of L 49 is set and @ when
> Inherent Vice ends....(before that, mostly in musician circles), after 
> that, other, harder drugs were on the rise and were dominant in the 
> society at large.
>
>
>
>


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