JTode@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Thai Sticks are probably still available in Thailand and still probably amazing. And in the 70s when Mexican ditchweed was all you’d find in North America, it was worth the peril to import the amazing stuff.
Nowadays, anyone with a light can grow equally amazing stuff. I would love to taste some real Thai herb, but it won’t get me more stoned than my homegrown. Thai smugglers are welcome to come to Manitoba and call my bluff, DM me baby.
Windowpane was more or less a marketing label on the same Shakedown Street sheets that made their way around the country in the wake of the Dead. They arrived up here via letters sent home. You can still get sheets but I have no idea who’s making em, probably dodgy Russian chemists whose families are held hostage…
I know almost nothing about ludes.
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Knockoff ludes are popular south of the equator. Africa, Southeast Asia. No one makes a legitimate Quaalude anymore, so it’s all illicit production, mostly in India, iirc.
tourist@lemmy.world 23 minutes ago
I live in South Africa. They call it Mandrax over here. They also call it “buttons” (singular and plural). Both formal and informal illegal drug naming systems as a whole are completely busted, but that’s another story.
I don’t have more context on production beyond that old Hamilton Morris documentary. I think at least some part of the production chain is still here.
The apartheid government’s chemical weapons program, which involved large scale manufacture of the drug, probably left some instructions lying around.
The head of that program, Wouter Basson (also known as fucking Dr. Death), somehow still has a medical license and is practicing cardiology in Cape Town.
He’ll even admit to the war crimes (which he officially denied) to patients who demonstrate a sufficient level of racism.
Meanwhile, some of the most desperate people in this country are still crushing those tablets, smoking them out of broken beer bottlenecks, and end up lying facedown in the street in the middle of the day.