Originally Posted by
RaleighSport
Every few years it seems California's ephedrin laws lapse or something like that and we end up with weak amphetamines being sold in the stores basically.. one of those periods was during my first run through of college, I suspect caffeine/ephedrin pills are the true C&V upper.. as far as I know amphetamines weren't truly produced/refined until WW2 and more specifically for a certain genocidal dictator...
You must be thinking of Pervitin.
The Nazi Death Machine: Hitler's Drugged Soldiers - SPIEGEL ONLINE
I know a Vietnam vet who says they were injected with liquid speed before going on search and destroy missions.