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Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s
- kpmcc 5y agoRelated: https://twitter.com/CocaineDecor/ https://twitter.com/CocaineDecor/
- Max_Ehrlich 5y agoI thought widespread cocaine usage in the 70s was just a joke. Turns out it was actually a thing.
- emmelaich 5y agoIt was a thing. It still is, too.
- barry-cotter 5y agoThe 70s were crazy in more ways than one. “People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States.” — Max Noel, FBI (ret.) https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/ https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/
- selfhoster11 5y agoThat was a wild read. I want more articles in this style.
- kilroy123 5y agoWhich perfectly coincides with this: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com https://wtfhappenedin1971.com
- wikidani 5y agoWow, what exactly happened then? Is there anymore I could read about it?
- captainredbeard 5y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nixon_shock
- captainredbeard 5y agoUS moved to fiat money and they started inflating us all to hell
- colanderman 5y agoArbitrary knees in exponentially-growing metrics lined up with the introduction of fiat currency due to carefully chosen Y-axis scales by someone who makes money when you invest in Bitcoin. (Some of those graphs -- especially the first one -- probably have interesting stories behind them, which may or may not relate to fiat currency. But all we get from that page is a Hayek quote structured to suggest he too would love Bitcoin so...)
- abecedarius 5y agoWell, Hayek did write a whole book in favor of private currencies... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denationalization_of_Money https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Denationalization_of_Money
- colanderman 5y agoFair enough.
- kilroy123 5y agoI highly recommend this video, it's long but well worth explaining what happened here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY&t=33s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEz__sMVaY&t=33s
- vegetablepotpie 5y agoI read your article, and it seems like the primary thesis is that large institutions (primarily universities) act as a sheltering mechanism for leftist radicals who promote violent social change. I’m not assuming you wrote the article, but I want to ask to try to gain insight. If this is true, why is it that business institutions, that have a lot to lose from social upheavals, require 4-year degrees for professional positions, from these leftist institutions?
- imwillofficial 5y agoPossibly as a hold over from a time when a degree carried more weight.
- asdff 5y agoBusiness institutions are hiring kids who majored in business and don't look like hippies.
- SyzygistSix 5y agoBecause those institutions have changed a whole lot. The Birth of a New American Aristocracy: https://outline.com/4BXcWS https://outline.com/4BXcWS
- vegetablepotpie 5y agoI read THAT article, and found that it neither affirms, nor refutes the claim that universities shelter violent revolutionaries. The thing it says about education is that it’s harder to get into a college now than before. That is a change, but it can occur with or without also acting as a retirement home for “the shock troops” that was mentioned in GPs article.
- dymax78 5y agoI've always been fascinated by the depiction of the 70's in media: an era of excess and debauchery. the linked article (thanks!) reinforces the notion "truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn't." Each rabbit hole feels more bewildering than the former.
- motohagiography 5y agoHadn't read this before, thank you. Mind blown. It's the missing articulation of why some of this stuff today is so serious. The first half reads like it would be an amazing epic series, if it were written from the perspective of the complex anti-hero protagonists. I knew about Tupac's family link, and one of my high school teachers was among the white feminist women who were a part of the black liberation movement and told us stories about it, but to write about it as a history of before hiphop, before gangs, and before blacksploitation, after civil rights, this shit was real. The second half about the mechanisms of right/left conflict is spot on, and describes undercurrents today very well.
- SyzygistSix 5y agoThat's a fun article but also so ridiculously, obviously biased that it's difficult to take the details seriously. The author really does the subject a disservice because of that, although at least the are being open about their bias.Because it really is an interesting part of US history. And although I'm not that old and I already knew about most of it, minus some interesting details, like supporting the murder of Sharon Tate, I would imagine he is right when he points out that a lot of people do not remember or know of this history. Especially considering how dangerous people think our society is nowadays. I had never heard anything about the Puerto Rican separatists though. That's some crazy. Thanks a bunch for the link! The supposed analysis at the end is absurd though and can be effectively skipped. The author does not understand anything about the institutions that hold power now, along with a whole lot else.
- capableweb 5y agoIn more industries than not, it's still a thing. There is a lot of companies (that I've worked with at least) where coke usage is still happening at relaxed events, especially when it's a "management-only" event.
- i1856511 5y agoSoftware development? Or other industries?
- capableweb 5y agoAs a software consultant for many different industries, from materials, real estate, industrials, fashion and everything in-between. Usage seems the same across all of them.
- teddyh 5y agoI get that same feeling now when people casually mention cannabis use.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y agoThe history of cannabis use is orders of magnitudes longer than the history of cocaine use.
- capableweb 5y agoNot sure about magnitude. Well, maybe Cocaine yeah magnitude, but when it comes to Coca, I'm pretty sure tribes in South America have been using them for as long as people been using Cannabis. At the very least, the Incas were using Coca back in the day.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The history of cannabis use is orders of magnitudes longer than the history of cocaine use. Not unless you narrowly restrict the latter to refined cocaine, while not restricting the former to (say) refined THC. The history of cannabis use is not orders of magnitude longer than the history of coca leaf use.
- bitxbitxbitcoin 5y agoDefinitely not comparing to coca leaf use. To your point though, refined THC in the form of hashish has a much longer history than refined coca leaves. As has breeding for more THC.
- Bud 5y agoHashish does not actually have to be "refined" at all. There's zero chemical process involved. You're just taking the resin glands off the surface of the plant. Refining cocaine is starkly different from this, of course.
- jmcgough 5y agoI don't think I understood the extent until I watched a Studio 54 documentary - iconic, super popular NYC nightclub where everyone did loads of cocaine out in the open all night.
- PopAlongKid 5y agoThe cocaine culture and the disco culture were very much intertwined. Maybe it was not as much in the open as at Studio 54, but it wasn't limited to just NYC.
- soco 5y agoWas? It's almost on the job description of a banking manager...
- dkdk8283 5y agoIt’s very much alive, the war on drugs is a racket. A friend sold car stereos in the 80s, he would get tips in coke. He was paid a lot to cut a early projection tv in half so it could fit in his airplane and be taken back to South America.
- antihero 5y agoHeh, you should check out London in 2021.
- znpy 5y agoJesus christ that is immensely disturbing.
- jdthedisciple 5y agoHopefully we will consider today's gay hookup ads just as disturbing in a few years ... Edit in response to flag: Who would've thought even the damn ADS have become sacred and immune to criticism ... ow well, interesting times we live in
- capableweb 5y agoThe opposite seems true, we'll just get more and more liberal around sexuality as time goes on, so saddle up cowboy!
- refurb 5y agoNot sure that’s guaranteed at all. It’s not like sexual mores were always conservative up until now. No reason why they won’t go back. That won’t stop people, but it will make it more socially unacceptable.
- jdthedisciple 5y agoNo worries I'm up for the ride, but biologically speaking it will be lost for those who advocate homosexuality, abortion, are anti-children and anti natural-families - all at the same time. So I'm truly not worried, nature will take care, I'm sure I don't have to explain why ;)
- trasz 5y agoHow did you conflate cocaine use with getting rid of harmful superstitions?
- jdthedisciple 5y agoNo superstitions friend, I don't need to explain the biology behind my post to you, do I? ;)
- trasz 5y agoYour post has nothing to do with biology; it’s just a set of superstitions, possibly religiously motivated, as it’s suspiciously aligned with Catholic hate speech.
- TeaDude 5y agoThe ivory ads are probably the best. "The drugs you consume fund an international racket of abuse. Why not display it with the abuse of animals?"
- jack_riminton 5y agoReminds me of the 'valentine love roses' https://www.reddit.com/r/trashy/comments/8pq62j/the_fact_that_the_local_gas_station_sells_legit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/trashy/comments/8pq62j/the_fact_tha...
- sergioisidoro 5y agoMany times I think "what today will sound absurd in the future?". Our widespread and normalised alcohol abuse is one of the things crossing my mind, and I wonder if many ads related to vaping, smoking and alcohol will look like this for us in a few years. Edit: To clarify, what I mean with normalising alcohol abuse is not getting a bit of a buzz with a few glasses of wine or beer in a social setting. It's how we've normalised getting completely hammered every weekend, and even celebrate people who can drink a lot.
- patrickk 5y agoGambling ads across much of Europe. It’s pervasive especially around football ad breaks. I have a theory that at some stage VOCs (in furniture, carpets, laminated wood products, paints etc) that lead to sick building syndrome will be heavily clamped down on, but nowadays nobody bats an eyelid at new couches laden with formaldehyde or other substances.
- mattowen_uk 5y ago> Gambling ads across much of Europe. It’s pervasive especially around football ad breaks This. It's awful in the UK. Non-stop gambling adverts everywhere. They have to have a disclaimer on them and link to https://www.begambleaware.org/ https://www.begambleaware.org/ but there's no rules it seems on how short or small the link needs to be. On some ads it literally flashes up for only 1 second at the end.
- telotortium 5y ago> sick building syndrome A lot of that, at least in the US, is due to having houses built more tightly for insulation, which stopped the natural air exchange from drafts that would normally occur. Now the building codes have been revised to mandate that a certain rate of air changes occurs even in houses, usually done using a heat exchanger: https://bcapcodes.org/tools/code-builder/residential/ventilation/ https://bcapcodes.org/tools/code-builder/residential/ventila...
- ramblerman 5y agoThe lindy effect would argue it's far more unlikely for opinions to change on alcohol than vaping/cocaine in the western world. Lightly abusing some red wine goes back some ways.
- pbhjpbhj 5y agoI feel like the thing missing here is which magazines. Just like you can find unlawful/illegal websites before the web were magazines and books. So, were these in mainstream publications or were they in already outlawed publications? Curiously the website is called "Rare Historical Photos" but the premise under which this is [so] shocking is that these are not rare adverts.
- asdff 5y agoHalf the ads say "Find it at your nearest headshop" or something to that effect. These were in stoner magazines and these adverts and products never really went away from that space to be fair.
- hellbannedguy 5y agoI belive Husler. I seem to have 70's Hustler graphics stuck in my brain stem? It seemed like all the nudie magazines, except Playboy, and Penthouse, had a lot of drug paraphernalia. (My dad had a stash of Playboys, and the kid down the street's father favored Hustler.) As a kid, I remember seeing 5000 Sudafed (actually the main chemical ingredient) for $20. I was always confused. Why would anyone want so much cold medicine, and later on--they must be for confusing the drug buyers. Even with all the advertising, and copious amounts of Sudafed, making meth was an unknown to many drug dealers. I had a chem teacher in college who liked to tell about the student he had who made meth, and sold it. Forget his name? Anyway, the word was he ruined his eyesight because early on he worked with too much mercury. There was one student who kept her book open during the test. He would walk up/down the isles and couldn't spot her cheating. Low grade coke was everywhere. I tried it three times in my twenties. I was offered it at parties. All three times off duty cops offered it to me. Yea--probally evidence. I never felt anything though? It was weak, or my constitution was different? A lot of people smoked cigarettes. Coke was around. Drinking was like today, but one for the road was real. Opiates were only for the down, and out.
- helsinkiandrew 5y agoA little digging and it appears these ads were in magazines like Hustler, Penthouse and High Times - not the The New York Review of Books or more mainstream titles, which makes much more sense. https://flashbak.com/cocaine-advertising-of-the-1970s-1980s-386108/ https://flashbak.com/cocaine-advertising-of-the-1970s-1980s-... https://dangerousminds.net/comments/magazine_ads_from_the_heyday_of_cocaine_chic https://dangerousminds.net/comments/magazine_ads_from_the_he...
- h2odragon 5y agoThe mainstream ads never mentioned what the product was for. My mom had almost collected someones "US States" mini spoons set, when someone told her they were coke spoons she lost her enthusiasm for getting the full set. Some truck stop or something had sold them as a promotional thing, coulda been anything but "mini spoons" were a popular utensil right then. It was also amusing, as a kid in the 80s, when these things would come out at yard sales and such. Pop up with "how much for this?" and watch someone turn deep pink; or alternately get the last bit of someones antique stash that the rest of their family was unaware of.
- ZanyProgrammer 5y agoI'm not even sure many/any of those ads in the link were in anything resembling a mainstream publication in the first place.
- Multiplayer 5y agoThese ads showed up in rock magazines like Creem and rolling stone, playboy, oui, counter culture newspapers, etc.
- frankfrankfrank 5y agoI am not sure if there is a name for this phenomenon, but it seems to be a frequent issue where, e.g., in this case some probably very limited run ads in obscure magazines only the fringe of society every even possibly saw are now in the future interpreted and assumed to have been seen by everyone, all the time, and were of far greater importance or impact than they really were in reality. Does anyone know if there is a term for that kind of "bias" or self-deception? The odd reflexive impact of that seems to be that today's historians and social sciences people are prone to falling prey to the "bias" and then weaving it into preconceived notions and narratives due to other biases like confirmation bias.
- ulzeraj 5y ago> These vintage ads for cocaine and cocaine paraphernalia show how crazy and disturbing the 1970s were. Things are more disturbing nowadays because people go through violent routes to get their drugs. Its still there and its worse but at least the sensible eyes of the millennial browsing the internet from his brand new M1 is protected. Hooray for the war on drugs.
- j-pb 5y agoThe current iteration of the war on drugs is a "Greatest Generation" (Nixon et al.) invention and every generation since has suffered for it, but it goes back way further to prohibition times.
- PragmaticPulp 5y ago> Things are more disturbing nowadays because people go through violent routes to get their drugs. What? People seem to buy drugs online with cryptocurrency and receive it in the mail, an option which obviously didn’t exist in the 70s. I have some friends involved in the treatment/recovery space. It’s actually very challenging because the old technique of cutting ties with the user/dealer social circles is much less effective when reordering drugs online for delivery is just a few clicks away.
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- standardUser 5y ago"Things are more disturbing nowadays because people go through violent routes to get their drugs. " As an avid drug user and part of a sprawling social group of avid drug users, we have no f*cking idea what you are talking about.
- ankraft 5y agoYou can buy most of these gadgets (cheap replicas) at smartshops in The Netherlands.
- PopAlongKid 5y agoIn the late 1970s, I worked in a record store (selling new vinyl records), we had a display case at the register with many of these same products available (as well as pipes and bongs), it wasn't that unusual in the U.S. Even today, I suspect most smoke/vape shops have similar items, although powder cocaine does not seem as common today as it was back then. I remember one device in particular, it was a small metal cylinder, shaped like an overgrown bullet, designed so that you could fill the main chamber with powder, screw the top on, then by rotating a smaller cylinder inside, deliver one snort into the upper chamber with an opening at the top for pressing against your nostril. It allowed you to snort almost using just one hand, with no chance of spillage. I'd still have one, but I gave it to a friend a long time ago.
- pak9rabid 5y agolol, a buddy of mine was just showing off his he bought a few weeks ago.
- canbus 5y agoI like the poster that says "this is a natural product" as if it's good for you or something
- cblconfederate 5y agoIt's like selling selfie sticks in the '10s
- MisterTea 5y agoI remember all the little "coffee stirrers" with the comically tiny spoon like ends. Of course the explanation was it's for stirring your coffee or adding a little sugar. Though who adds a tiny bump of sugar to their coffee? Turns out it was for coke and they were commonly available everywhere. The McDonalds ones were semi famous for that. Its similar to those little fake flowers in a glass tube on counters in corner stores which make great crack pipes (same with those short cheap tire pressure gauges). Or the cheap looking socks they oddly sell which are useful for tie off before shooting heroin.
- prepend 5y ago> those short cheap tire pressure gauges Oh funny, I wondered why they had so many of these at the gas station by the checkout. I bought one and it was terrible for telling my tire pressure. I could not understand why so many people wanted to measure their tire pressure.
- kccqzy 5y agoSame. I promptly threw it away and bought an actual tire pressure gauge from a car dealer.
- jacquesm 5y agoYou're on a list somewhere.
- JasonFruit 5y agoSame. Mine flew apart on first use, and now I feel naive.
- 13of40 5y agoMany, many years ago, naive me bought my girlfriend one of those roses at a 7-Eleven, and I still remember her response: "Oh, Honey, you bought me a craaack pipe!" We're not together anymore.
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- vadfa 5y agoSan Andreas throwback: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabNcVpyvAc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabNcVpyvAc
- durnygbur 5y agoSocial media, likes, followers, and notifications are today's cocaine... and soft drinks.
- froidpink 5y agohonestly i'd say cocaine is today's cocaine
- Bud 5y agoWe were a lot better off as a society with cocaine than we are now with meth and fentanyl.
- radicalcentrist 5y agoDon't forget video games and rock & roll.
- 29athrowaway 5y agoCurious fact: in the late 1880s there were about 300 opium dens in San Francisco.
- asdff 5y agoThere's probably more than 300 today in the tenderloin alone if you call a tent a den
- kabes 5y agoIs it actually illegal to sell these kind of gadgets today in the US? Could you still advertise them?
- the_only_law 5y agoI don’t know about selling them, but you could maybe get charged for having them in many places, even without the respective drugs.
- antihero 5y agoThey are sold in the UK on eBay
- 7402 5y ago21 U.S. Code § 863 - Drug paraphernalia (a) In general It is unlawful for any person— (1) to sell or offer for sale drug paraphernalia; (2) to use the mails or any other facility of interstate commerce to transport drug paraphernalia; or (3) to import or export drug paraphernalia. (b) Penalties Anyone convicted of an offense under subsection (a) of this section shall be imprisoned for not more than three years and fined under title 18. (c) Seizure and forfeiture Any drug paraphernalia involved in any violation of subsection (a) of this section shall be subject to seizure and forfeiture upon the conviction of a person for such violation. Any such paraphernalia shall be delivered to the Administrator of General Services, General Services Administration, who may order such paraphernalia destroyed or may authorize its use for law enforcement or educational purposes by Federal, State, or local authorities. (d) “Drug paraphernalia” defined The term “drug paraphernalia” means any equipment, product, or material of any kind which is primarily intended or designed for use in manufacturing, compounding, converting, concealing, producing, processing, preparing, injecting, ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing into the human body a controlled substance, possession of which is unlawful under this subchapter. It includes items primarily intended or designed for use in ingesting, inhaling, or otherwise introducing marijuana,[1] cocaine, hashish, hashish oil, PCP, methamphetamine, or amphetamines into the human body, such as— (1) metal, wooden, acrylic, glass, stone, plastic, or ceramic pipes with or without screens, permanent screens, hashish heads, or punctured metal bowls; (2) water pipes; (3) carburetion tubes and devices; (4) smoking and carburetion masks; (5) roach clips: meaning objects used to hold burning material, such as a marihuana cigarette, that has become too small or too short to be held in the hand; (6) miniature spoons with level capacities of one-tenth cubic centimeter or less; (7) chamber pipes; (8) carburetor pipes; (9) electric pipes; (10) air-driven pipes; (11) chillums; (12) bongs; (13) ice pipes or chillers; (14) wired cigarette papers; or (15) cocaine freebase kits. (e) Matters considered in determination of what constitutes drug paraphernalia In determining whether an item constitutes drug paraphernalia, in addition to all other logically relevant factors, the following may be considered: (1) instructions, oral or written, provided with the item concerning its use; (2) descriptive materials accompanying the item which explain or depict its use; (3) national and local advertising concerning its use; (4) the manner in which the item is displayed for sale; (5) whether the owner, or anyone in control of the item, is a legitimate supplier of like or related items to the community, such as a licensed distributor or dealer of tobacco products; (6) direct or circumstantial evidence of the ratio of sales of the item(s) to the total sales of the business enterprise; (7) the existence and scope of legitimate uses of the item in the community; and (8) expert testimony concerning its use. (f) Exemptions This section shall not apply to— (1) any person authorized by local, State, or Federal law to manufacture, possess, or distribute such items; or (2) any item that, in the normal lawful course of business, is imported, exported, transported, or sold through the mail or by any other means, and traditionally intended for use with tobacco products, including any pipe, paper, or accessory. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/863 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/21/863
- throwaway5752 5y agohttps://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MgX_VMXj3Sc/YZvryBNXhUI/AAAAAAAAg9U/rXkRbEWda2EodsNoiLcyf7MbSm0QtOnVgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1351/cocaine-paraphernalia-ads-1970s%2B%252833%2529.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MgX_VMXj3Sc/YZvryBNXhUI/AAAAAAAAg... "finest center cuts of imported African ivory" Wow. That and https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w3Xc47mDO8E/YZvrzIxkirI/AAAAAAAAg9c/qZGhTHJnUNALEmSpL-JPIidE1xcD8p-IgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1410/cocaine-paraphernalia-ads-1970s%2B%252835%2529.jpg https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w3Xc47mDO8E/YZvrzIxkirI/AAAAAAAAg... ("solid Honduras mahogany") really hit me. I wonder what they see 50 years from now and shake their heads about what we squandered. My guess is "wild caught salmon" and atoll beach resorts.
- dsizzle 5y agoMight take longer than 50 years, but I would bet things go even further to simply "salmon" -- the not-lab-grown variety, that is, and same for other meat.
- galangalalgol 5y agoNah, all they will eat is salmon, it will be excess from the iron fertilization they use to counteract global warming. They will have to harvest the salmon boom to protect the algae bloom or the albedo will drop and cook everyone.
- notreallyserio 5y agoIt's funny that these are marketed as luxury products that sell for under $40. I mean, I know inflation is a thing, but $40 was not a lot of money back then.
- beaconstudios 5y agomany products promoted as "luxury" are about telling middle class people that their products imitate upper class signals, without that actually being true. Thus they're usually expensive for a salaried worker but not beyond affordable - whereas products that the upper class genuinely use to signal are well beyond the balance of wage labourers.
- JoeyBananas 5y agoOf course, you can still buy drug paraphernalia. For example there are plastic Roses in a glass vase sold at gas stations that are really crack pipes. And there are lots of shady "tobacco shops" out there. Some of these products seem pretty nice, I'd buy a couple of them if I did cocaine.
- whalesalad 5y agoI yearn for the day where all drugs are legal. No difference between cocaine and caffeine or alcohol. They’re all drugs if you remove your bias and conditioning.
- throwaway5752 5y agoBias and conditioning? There is large and measurable variability in potency, effect, and dependency formation. Anyone with any sense sees the difference between coffee, marijuana, pcp, and heroin.
- dumpHero2 5y agoEver heard of coffee destroying families or someone’s career? Yeah, me neither.
- dom96 5y agoIf that's the criteria then we still have an inconsistency: tobacco and alcohol should be banned. The alternative is to be consistent in the other direction (which to some that are after "freedom" sounds more appropriate).
- whalesalad 5y agoPrecisely. Anyone who stands up for alcohol while putting down cocaine or cannabis is fooling themselves and refusing to see truth.
- ambrozk 5y agoYeah, there's a logical inconsistency. So what? Just because our society has so far failed to ban two addictive, harmful drugs, does not mean we must legalize every other addictive, harmful drug.
- shmel 5y agoI see it differently: despite alcohol having absolutely horrible safety profile the vast majority of people manage to use it responsibly and don't let it ruin their lives. We all know that some people become alcoholics and yet it stops virtually nobody from enjoying Friday beer. The drug prohibition made it difficult to know how many people use drugs responsibly. It is linked to legal weed actually: it is being legalized not because research showed it is not too dangerous (we knew it for a while), but because more and more people become aware that you can totally use weed and remain a respectable member of society. For me it is a question of personal freedom. Everything has risks. Going hiking in mountains can kill you, for example, or almost any outdoor activity really. And some people die there pretty much every day. But I really don't want the state banning it just because some people fuck up.
- elliekelly 5y ago> In 1986, under Ronald Reagan, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act was passed. [...] The act also created the first laws against money laundering or moving illegally obtained money (such as drug sale proceeds) into or out of bank accounts. The Bank Secrecy Act was enacted in 1970. Money laundering had already been on the books. Reagan’s drug law widened the scope and increased the record-keeping and reporting requirements. I think Nixon is the one who has the distinction of enacting the “first” AML law.
- BasilPH 5y agoInteresting to see that delivery times of 4-6 weeks were something that was advertised.
- nemo44x 5y agoWhen I was a kid I'd order things from magazine ad's whenever I could, usually gags and gimmicks, etc. It would take forever from the time you sent in the order form and money. It was always so exciting the day the package arrived and your goods were finally in your possession.
- PebblesRox 5y agohttps://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/03/03 https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/03/03
- nemo44x 5y agoHis art was so good. Just perfect.
- mackwell 5y agoMy Dad invented one of the products advertised in these. Imagine my surprise the first time I saw a collection like this pop up.
- 0des 5y agoIt's so curious that cocaine is still illegal, one could assume purely as a side effect of the nations that produce it and the complications that are involved with those in charge of distributing it, which some might argue is a byproduct of it being illegal in the first place. When taken on its own, it's a surprisingly mild stimulant as a nasal snuff, not at all like in the movies. When taken nasally, it has a short half life, low potential for adverse side effects in normal adults, and only causes alcohol like euphoria in the highest doses. I can see why it is still used in medicine, it is highly efficacious, and some day I can see it being tolerated, if not legalized. It might just be me being old, as we tend to remember the positives more than the negatives, but this was a nice trip down memory lane. It is unfortunate that the hobby has settled/devolved into its lowest element, these days.
- unethical_ban 5y agoI haven't used it, but I am in principle tolerant of drug use. The three metrics of legalization/safety I have heard are: Level of addiction, Ease of overdose, and long term health impact. You say cocaine in small amounts is a dandy stimulant. I take Adderall for ADHD occasionally, and I've been told by those who have used both that the differences in effect are smaller than one might guess. And while I suppose I could OD by taking a bunch of Adderall pills, I don't have a "drive" to keep on taking more for a short term hit. My rambling is to say: My impression of cocaine use is that it does long term damage to the body and the nasal cavity, and that its short-term high makes people chase it more and thus is ripe for OD. So I'm not too shocked that it's a controlled substance vs. something like cannabis.
- kortex 5y agoCocaine also induces microischemia - basically constricts your capillaries and starves the neurons/glia of oxygen. This happens slowly over time and is cumulative. As mentioned, coke is high on the abuse potential scale due to its rapid onset and withdrawal, short loop between behavior and reward. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/brains-blood-cocaine https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/brains-blood-cocaine
- antihero 5y agoYou can still buy these kits as "snuff kits". https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=snuff+snorting+kit&_sop=12 https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=snuff+snorting+kit&_s...
- dmd 5y agoMy dad [0] was a technology columnist in from the 80s to mid 00s, and related this story: Ken worked for what was then a first-tier Japanese hifi company. At the time -- it was the eighties -- companies exhibiting at CES gave shit away. Shirts, pens, calculators... you know: trade show crap. Rather than have his giveaway get lost in that sea of crap, my friend decided to give out pocket-sized mirrors, each encased in a blue silicon sleeve emblazoned with the company logo. His Japanese masters said "Ken-san, why you give away small mirror. We don't understand." And Ken-san said "trust me, they'll love it." And they did, because a) it was the eighties, and 2) while some preparatory activities are best done on a cardboard record jacket, others require an unyielding surface. I should add that the notion of including a single-edge razor blade in the package crossed his mind, but was rejected as being too on-the-nose. [0] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/how-metafilter-brought-a-deceased-fathers-jokes-back-to-life/274599/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/how-m...
- jgrimm 5y agoToo "on the nose" indeed ;)
- steviedotboston 5y agoThis is really depressing for some reason. Just very bleak
- 4wsn 5y agoMy sentiments as well. It gives the impression of a society where the only sentiment not scoffed at is satisfying one's urges and impulses. It's so hollow and empty.
- stickfigure 5y agoIt feels like common advertising at the time. See also "Rich Corinthian Leather": https://youtu.be/tfKHBB4vt4c?t=9 https://youtu.be/tfKHBB4vt4c?t=9
- ubermonkey 5y agoI feel like this is a place where I should share this bit of weirdness: https://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/2788/synth-coke https://www.retrojunk.com/commercial/show/2788/synth-coke
- ajsnigrutin 5y ago"For tobacco use only"
- derefr 5y ago> While traditionally cocaine was a rich man’s drug (due to the large expense of a cocaine habit), by the late 1980s, cocaine was no longer thought of as the drug of choice for the wealthy. This phrasing seems to suggest that something else displaced cocaine as "the drug of choice for the wealthy." If something did, what was it? And if nothing did — i.e. if young-rich-people parties just shifted away from being drug-fueled — then what caused that? Because that feels like a very surprising shift; drug-fueled parties were a staple of decadent wealth for hundreds of years as of that point. I wouldn't expect that a single drug losing its perception of "classiness" would lead to a wholesale abandonment of drug use by an entire class of people.
- eof 5y agoI take it to mean that the primary cultural association with cocaine was no longer “rich person drug,” while not saying anything at all about the drug of choice for the wealthy.
- kbenson 5y agoIf something replaced cocaine, my guess would be pills, both repurposed medical grade ones and things like ecstasy. Being completely manufactured allows for an arbitrary distinction in quality based on packaging, and that's obviously something people like to buy into. That said, I'm not sure I believe cocaine ever lost favor with the wealthy. Maybe they just shifted from open semi-public use to more private and small groups doing it within the whole? Instead of open use in the big common room, maybe people just split off into side rooms in small groups that are interested to do it and rejoin the main group later.
- asdff 5y agoCocaine never really went away.
- cik2e 5y agoI remember learning this fun fact from a Netflix documentary. Nominal prices for coke have remained stable since the 70s. So adjusted for inflation, it's gotten progressively less expensive. I've witnessed 5his personally. A gram in the 2000s would run about 70 bucks in my area, and that's still the case today. So it's likely that over time more and more not so rich people entered the market and coke lost its cachet. But I'm sure the rich remained quite fond of it.
- yummypaint 5y agoDoug Demuro famously pointed out that the Lamborghini Jalpa had fully removable vanity mirrors in the 1980s
- callamdelaney 5y agoI’m sure this has some relevance but it’s gone over my head, could you explain?
- kiddico 5y agoEasier to do coke off it when you can hold it near your face.
- pwillia7 5y agoI went and watched it and it was actually the Countach that had that
- cmaggiulli 5y agoI’ve seen ads on Facebook for Etizolam ( and other thienodiazepines which are nearly identical in effect to Xanax ) as well as ads for products that contain 4-fluoromethamphetamine and other amphetamines analogs. I took screenshots if anyone is interested. So honestly this doesn’t really shock me at all. Back then it was at least paraphernalia. Now you can find drug suppliers through mainstream ads. Not to mention the plethora of ads for SARMs and other performance enhancing drugs ( to which some of them are actually non regulated anabolic steroids, not SARMs )
- shoulderfake 5y agowhy do you have a fb account?
- anaganisk 5y agoYou ask like as if its a silk road account and not the worlds largest social networking site and also one of the largest single sign on provider
- standardUser 5y agoThere's plenty of "weight loss clinics" these days that are just thinly veiled prescription speed dealers, to give another example.
- R0b0t1 5y agoYou might want to leave contact info in your bio so people don't have to post in public for the images. If you have a place to put them up you probably should.
- grouphugs 5y agoi should be selling cocaine and cocaine accessories, i could also use some myself
- tomc1985 5y agoI miss advertising like this... where it actually talks about the product and why you need it instead of blowing emotional smoke up your ass
- rhapsodic 5y agoIn the 1970s, you could walk into a suburban shopping mall, and there would often be a "Tobacco Village" kiosk. And one section of its shelves would be filled with bright, colorful bongs, pipes, waterpipes, rolling papers, rolling machines and all other manner of weed paraphernalia. You can call me old-fashioned, but I miss those days.
- mistik956 5y agoWyfWtf
- transfire 5y agoAh... The good old days. How the cheeks have clenched since. So sad.
- pagutierrezn 5y agoThe last photo in the article comes from the UK Daily Mail according to the credits: `Photo credit: David Wilfert / The World’s Best Ever / Daily Mail UK`
- greyhair 5y agoAs a child of the late 1960s, early 1970s, that was a messed up time. After the assassinations and riots of the late 60s, Kent State, Watergate, the end of the Vietnam war, people were done. The drugs just flowed. I was frequently a designated driver for my trashed friends. A lot of those people that did the most drugs are now some of the most wrapped up conservative ass hats as adults. I can't talk to them, haven't been able to in years. Their excuse is always "It was wrong then, and I'll be damned if I am going to let others make the same mistake." My own kids (Gen Z) were all so much more rational through their teenage years. There is hope for the world as long as the old farts just sit down and shut up. I only speak up because I am sick and tired of my peers. There should definitely be an upper age limit to serving in Public office, and maybe even an upper age limit to voting.