Fictional Drugs

[sobriquet]

Ok, I admit it. I'm a wikipedia junkie. I spend hours on there. Always something interesting, like this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_medicines_and_drugs).

It's a fairly extensive list of fictional medicines and drugs from book and film, along with source and effect if available.

Cheers!

[Stedric]

Holy shit! And I thought I was the only one who could spend hours on Wikipedia.

Their history section is very impressive as well, especially articles like the Rape of Nanking and anti-semitism.

Speaking of fictional drugs, I once told a teacher at school that my friend was a foreign exchange student from Germanistan. When she asked what he was doing in Canada, I told her he was selling crazy Germanistanic drugs like cocaine-ibus.

Wow, that was pointless.

[lizzie on low]

There's nothing better than a joint and wiki, imho.

(yes, I am that much of a bookworm... interworm... you know what I mean)

And on that note... woohoo, Felicium made the list! I love that episode of TNG.

[MullManiac]

Hahah i just spent 2 hours on there from clicking that link :p, is it just me or did everyone end up on cannabis :p

[STDzRus]

Interesting.

[somebody someone]

wow check out the recreational drug from babylon 5.. "Dust"

A highly illegal drug that induces telepathy. Users commit "telepathic rape", also illegal, by forcibly (and painfully) scanning the minds of other people. Can induce telepathy even in some species that have no natural telepaths, such as Narns.


fun

[STDzRus]

Also known by such street names as "jaster" and "silly salt." Instantly addictive drug derived from a tree only known to grow on a single planet. Affects entire nervous system, causing intense pleasure. Withdrawal is excruciatingly painful, and usually fatal; treatment requires total life support. It is said that an addict will gladly sell everything he or she owns, along with all body parts beyond the minimum needed to inject the drug, for his or her next dose. There is no known way to synthesize it, and the tree from which it is derived was thought to have been deliberately driven to extinction, but drug has reappeared. A large dose was used to defeat the malevolent entity known as the Vom.

Bloodhype --- Alan Dean Foster's Humanx Commonwealth

And you thought crackheads were bad? lol

[sobriquet]

Dylar is a fictional psychoactive drug that appears in Don DeLillo's novel White Noise and is intended to remove the fear of death. However, the drug does not work properly and extended use sometimes results in insanity. Extended users interpret spoken words and metaphor as actual actions and events. In an instance presented in the novel, the spoken phrase "hail of bullets" causes a Dylar-using character to panic, drop to the floor and crawl to shelter.

That'd be pretty crazy. I can just see me shouting "Riot of hot chicks!"

[colton]

Wikpedia is the dogs danglers, i spend hours just reading the most obscure shit

[dustoned]

if you liked wikipedia...

...you may also enjoy everything2.com!

[Oneironaut]

Wikipedia is a drug in itself. So much information, so little time to absorb it.

[CocaCola]

I am always on Wikipedia... best site ever.

[mellow mood]

they didnt even mention adrenochrome, mentionned in fear and loathing at las vegas

[Oneironaut]

Then add it. That's the beauty of Wikipedia.

[flamingskullballs]

theres a lot on the karova milk bar...

ultra-violence man...

[STDzRus]

They didn't mention adrenachrome, just look it up. They have the definition of it, it's a fictional drug, I didn't know that though. It's used as a hormone. And the psychoactive properties of it are very mild.

[deathbyvalley]

SOMA! it's my favorite fictional drug ever since i fell in love with brave new world.

[robert42]

i love wiki

[buginabassbin]

what about the ones in Brasseye. cake, yellow bentines, russell dust, were there anymore?

http://chilled.cream.org/forums/portal.php
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass_Eye