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Trump's unhinged amphetamine driven train wreck at CPAC was like watching Meth Week on COPS. (Original Post) Snake Plissken Mar 2019 OP
Probably because they'd have to back it up with irrefutable proof. Haggis for Breakfast Mar 2019 #1
Yeah that standard is why we never heard stories about Hillary running a pedo ring in a pizza parlor unblock Mar 2019 #6
Some people can be batshit crazy without drugs. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2019 #2
We have Example 1 in the White House now. nt Blue_true Mar 2019 #3
Someone on DU posted a video of Hitler and his drug addiction BigmanPigman Mar 2019 #4
Pervitin (methedrine) was the Third Reich's stimulant of choice. VOX Mar 2019 #7
Do they really have Meth Week on COPS? House of Roberts Mar 2019 #5
That fat bastard chews Adderall like after-dinner mints. VOX Mar 2019 #8

unblock

(52,196 posts)
6. Yeah that standard is why we never heard stories about Hillary running a pedo ring in a pizza parlor
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 12:44 AM
Mar 2019

or Obama not being a natural-born citizen or Hillary something something uranium one or killing Vince foster or....


BigmanPigman

(51,584 posts)
4. Someone on DU posted a video of Hitler and his drug addiction
Sat Mar 2, 2019, 11:40 PM
Mar 2019

yesterday. He would go on and on and bore everyone to death when they would have to sit and listen to him for hours each evening. Hitler didn't just use coke but meth too.

VOX

(22,976 posts)
7. Pervitin (methedrine) was the Third Reich's stimulant of choice.
Sun Mar 3, 2019, 01:17 AM
Mar 2019

And Hitler himself was indeed a big user. His doctor would administer more than 80 drugs DAILY. German soldiers on the front, and Luftwaffe pilots were users of Pervitin.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/276429/
'Pilot's Salt': The Third Reich Kept Its Soldiers Alert With Meth
For a while, the stuff seemed to be "the ideal war drug."
The Atlantic
MEGAN GARBER
MAY 31, 2013
A bottle of Pervitin, dating from around 1940. The packing reads: "Alertness aid," to be taken "to maintain wakefulness" -- but, it continues with an exclamation point, "only from time to time"! (via Der Spiegel)
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Pervitin was the early version of what we know today as crystal meth. And it was fitting that a German soldier would become addicted to the stuff: the drug, Der Spiegel notes, first became popular in Germany, brought to market by the then-Berlin-based drugmaker Temmler Werke. And almost immediately, the German army physiologist Otto Ranke realized its military value: not only could the methamphetamine compound keep fighters (pilots, in particular) alert on little sleep; it could also keep an entire military force feeling euphoric. Meth, Spiegel puts it, "was the ideal war drug."
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