💬 Opinion 10h ago · Jeffrey A. Singer

Quaaludes Might Be Back. The Iron Law of Prohibition Never Left.

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Quaaludes Might Be Back. The Iron Law of Prohibition Never Left.
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For a drug that has been essentially dead in the United States for four decades, the Quaalude has maintained an impressive cultural presence.
Quaaludes were a staple of the leisure suit/disco era. Anyone who lived through the 1970s probably remembers them. Anyone who didn't may remember Leonardo DiCaprio's extraordinary performance in The Wolf of Wall Street: After swallowing several 15-year-old, supposedly ineffective Quaaludes, his character discovers that the pills aren't quite as ineffective

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