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.
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.
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.
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.
Have you seen the Lord of War? Is there really a drug they mix with gun powder like it shows when he is in Africa? Always wondered that.
I’ve heard a lot of stories about bizarre adulterants, so I don’t doubt that happened, but it’s probably not commonplace.
It does sound like something an insurgent group would actually experiment with.
That being said, I’m pretty poorly informed with what happens in conflict zones north of the border.