Drug paraphernalia ads from the 1970s

[FLPanhandle]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/hayleycampbell/it-was-the-70s?utm_term=.yxKRe2zO1Q#.it20w14jAO

The 1970s were a weird time, not least because you could apparently advertise cocaine in magazines despite this being the first decade of President Nixon’s Controlled Substances Act.











Many more at the link. The 1970s was a very different world.

[Arkansas Granny]

1. A trip down memory lane. One of my personal favorites:

[melman]

3. Keed spills

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[MrScorpio]

2. People did seem to be more openly high back then

But I was a teen at the time, and drugs was never my thing, so I never thought that much about it.

[blogslut]

4. Paraphernalia laws didn't kick in until after Nancy said "No"

Then all of it became novelty items.

[maveric]

5. Some of these were from National Lampoon mags.

[Orrex]

6. I hope that the Blue Lady handles that firearm responsibly.

[The_Commonist]

7. When I was 15 or so in about 1978, I had a job...

...in a little tee shirt store in suburban New Jersey. You know, one of those places with the big iron and various band logos and such that you would iron onto the tee shirts. No big deal. It was fun and the owner was a good friend.

He got invites to a big trade show at the New York Coliseum, and he couldn't go, so a friend and I got the badges and we went. Most of the show was pretty boring, mostly apparel companies trying to peddle their wares.

However, toward the back of the show, were all the paraphernalia dealers who wanted to get their headshop gear placed in more "traditional" stores. They went crazy over my friend and I! They loved that we were unsupervised teens at a trade show, and we were exactly their target market. We walked out of there with two packed shopping bags each of every bit of weed paraphernalia you can imagine. Several of the exhibitors even gave us free weed with which to test their products.

It was totally surreal, and is something that would never happen today. And it probably shouldn't have happened back then either, but I certainly thought it was fun. Mom and Dad never knew...

[FLPanhandle]

8. Cool story.

I was a teen in Florida during the late 70's. Drugs were flowing through the state like water through a main.

It was a weird and wild time for sure