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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2073 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: August 15, 2018

Speed use in humans goes back to coffee. Cocaine was big in Europe for the same purposes as adderal; after cocaine, methamphetamine became common (just look up "pervitin"). I dated a girl whose grandfather prescribed her father amphetamines to make it through finals... and then thorazine to come down.

After pervitin there was dexedrine. Great for diet, great for mood!

In short, amphetamines have a hundred year history. The only thing meth has that everything else doesn't is social acceptability.