When Martin Scorsese was commissioned to create an advert for Quaaludes and Cocaine, little did anyone expect it to be the $100,000,000, three hour long, riddled with Oscar nominations, epic that it ended up being, but commercial for Quaaludes and Cocaine it was. A damn fine job Scorsese did; I immediately left the cinema with an unscratchable nasal itch, a too coherent speaking pattern, and a far too competent ability to walk.
Why Scorsese? Why would you advertise drugs I couldn’t even get hold of? How was I supposed to re-enact my favourite DiCaprio and Hill comedy capers now!? I was so impressionable but with no outlet to cause a ‘big bad ol’ cinema’, ‘won’t someone think of the children(I was 23 at the time)?’ outrage? Scorsese you sonofabitch!
Well, it seems some of the UK’s underground chemists are looking to rectify that hole in the market, if recent UK Border Agency seizures are anything to go by. Busts of N-acetylanthranilic acid, which is only used in production of methaqualone – Quaaludes to me, you, and Jordan Belfort. A kilogram of N-acetylanthranilic acid seized could potentially have produced 3,000 tablets. It would seem to suggest that someone (or someones) are experimenting with trying to produce the drug.
Quaaludes weren’t just popular with the yanks see, they were also incredibly popular in the UK during the late 60s and 70s, particularly at the height of glam rock. However, Â when the substance became controlled, they fell by the wayside and have been virtually unheard of in Britain since. The same happened in America when their legal manufacture ended in the 80s – see: The Wolf of Wall Street.
So you might not be able to enjoy such fun as this for the mean time;
But there’s hope yet, right?
Well, a lot more precursor drugs like N-acetylanthranilic acid have been seized in recent years in relation to cutting agents, and cleaning solvents, etc. for all sorts of drugs from cocaine, to heroin, through PCP, and methamphetamine.
Oh, and if they don’t get seized, Dr Les King – former member of the Advisory Council for the Misuse of Drugs, and a precursors expert – has this to say;
“Our experience of illicit chemists in this country is that most of them are pretty incompetent. Most people who set out to make MDMA or amphetamine fail because they’re not chemists and they don’t really know what they’re doing.
“It’s not difficult if you’re a trained chemist and you know what you’re doing, but most of the people who make drugs are not chemists and they’re reading from a recipe book. I’m afraid you need a bit of background knowledge as a chemist to know what you’re doing, really.”
Maybe that’s yet another reason to consider a RATIONAL UK DRUG POLICY, no?
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