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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's unhinged amphetamine driven train wreck at CPAC was like watching Meth Week on COPS.
Why does the media refuse to address Trump's obvious drug problem
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)unblock
(52,196 posts)or Obama not being a natural-born citizen or Hillary something something uranium one or killing Vince foster or....
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,670 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,584 posts)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)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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House of Roberts
(5,168 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Heres hoping he grinds his teeth flat.