Question about Fear & Loathing

[Biddy Early]

It was DMT, it states this in the book.

[Breukelen advocaat]

It was DMT, it states this in the book.

That makes sense.

I read his Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in the Rolling Stone magazine serialized excerpts way back in the day. I don't remember if they did that with Thompson's Vegas material.

[MisterGreen]

wow after reading this thread i should see the movie because i'd only heard the title and the general idea never this much detail. it sounds crazy.

[halfassedjediknight]

its dmt, and thats why it gets all hallucionogenic and weird right after he hits it. if you notice theres a projector showing like tv static and stuff projected against him and the wall behind him and stuff..

and i dont think the couch actually levitated.

..anyways, they had a bong and stuff too, so i dont think it would have been hash anyways. but then again i have no idear.

but yeah read the book! its good.

[Ol Schwaggy Bastard]

That makes sense.

I read his Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail in the Rolling Stone magazine serialized excerpts way back in the day. I don't remember if they did that with Thompson's Vegas material.

Yeah they did.


And DMT makes sense.

[friendowl]

dmt

[TokinSurfer]

deffenetly ice

[sonic titan]

He doesn't even mention what he is smoking in the book. I'm looking at it right now. In my book it's page 62. All he says is " I walked over to the TV set and turned it onto a dead channel-white noise at maximum decibels, a fine sound for sleeping, a powerful continuous hiss to drown out everything strange"

He doesn't mention the rum and hash until page 65 when he's telling a story and says "Forget LSD I thought, look what it's done to that poor bastard. So I stuck with hash and rum for another six months or so, until..."

[Breukelen advocaat]

uppers-Amphetamine
downers-Benzodiazepine
screamers-Methamphetamine
laughters-Nitrous oxide

For Thompson's terminology, I don't think that most of these words match the drugs he was referring to in the story. By "downers" he was probably talking about barbiturates (Seconal, etc.), or Chlorpromazine (anti-psychotics like Thorazine, etc.) which he'd have been more likely to have than benzodiazepine products, which are comparatively weak. The only one on the list I'd agree with is "uppers" for amphetamines.

[Matt the Funk]

For Thompson's terminology, I don't think that most of these words match the drugs he was referring to in the story. By "downers" he was probably talking about barbiturates (Seconal, etc.), or Chlorpromazine (anti-psychotics like Thorazine, etc.) which he'd have been more likely to have than benzodiazepine products, which are comparatively weak. The only one on the list I'd agree with is "uppers" for amphetamines.

downers probably qualudes...or w/e the fuck those were called, anyways this thread should be delted soon...