Disco culture
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| + | In the mid- to late-1970s [[disco]] club scene, there was a thriving drug subculture, particularly for drugs that would enhance the experience of dancing to the loud dance music and the flashing lights on the dancefloor, such as [[cocaine]] (nicknamed "blow"), amyl nitrite "[[poppers]]", and the "...other quintessential 1970s club drug [[Quaalude]], which suspended [[motor coordination]] and turned one’s arms and legs to [[Jell-O]]." According to [[Peter Braunstein]], "[m]assive quantities of drugs [were] ingested in discothèques". | ||
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In the mid- to late-1970s disco club scene, there was a thriving drug subculture, particularly for drugs that would enhance the experience of dancing to the loud dance music and the flashing lights on the dancefloor, such as cocaine (nicknamed "blow"), amyl nitrite "poppers", and the "...other quintessential 1970s club drug Quaalude, which suspended motor coordination and turned one’s arms and legs to Jell-O." According to Peter Braunstein, "[m]assive quantities of drugs [were] ingested in discothèques".
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