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Entries Tagged as 'Benzadrine'

The 75-Cent Plague

July 6th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Reading Walter Kirn’s sharp review of Methland reminded us that speed scares are nothing new. In researching the history of Benzedrine for Now the Hell Will Start, we remember coming across this 1959 Time piece about Eisenhower-era addicts and their penchant for crime. With a few linguistic tweaks, it could easily have been written last […]

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