{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Three! Four! Methylene! De-oxy-methamphet-amine!", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/187876412193/", "html": "<p>I just learned there&rsquo;s a drug called &ldquo;Orajel&rdquo;, which is actually &ldquo;benzocaine&rdquo;, originally marketed as &ldquo;An\u00e4sthesin&rdquo;, and those are all INCREDIBLY powerful drug names</p><p>Oh, to be in the turn-of-the-20th-century pharmaceutical industry, where you could just discover &ldquo;diamorphine&rdquo; and call it &ldquo;Heroin&rdquo;, now if you&rsquo;re lucky you discover &ldquo;vilazodone&rdquo; and pay an army of consultants to focus-group a hundred brand names and settle for &ldquo;Viibryd&rdquo;</p><p>&ldquo;Ecstasy&rdquo;/&ldquo;Molly&rdquo;, or &ldquo;MDMA&rdquo; is actually 3,4 methylenedeoxymethamphetamine (or to be more specific, N-methyl 3,4 methylenedeoxyamphetamine). I guess Sasha Shulgin didn&rsquo;t have the budget for consultants.</p><p>I know this because I rendered it as a chant in high school</p><h2>Three! Four! Methylene! De-oxy-methamphet-amine!</h2><p>This was in parallel with my &ldquo;insufflation&rdquo; chant (to the tune of Fr\u00e8re Jacques:)</p><h2>Insufflation!</h2><h2>Insufflation!</h2><h2>Up the nose!</h2><h2>Up the nose!</h2><h2>Through the mucus membrane!</h2><h2>Through the mucus membrane!</h2><h2>There it goes!</h2><h2>There it goes!</h2><p>Anyway, though I was too uncool to get offered drugs, the burnouts came to me for advice in high school because I hung out on The Lycaeum (it was the cooler Erowid, at the time)</p>"}