“BENNIES AND GOOFBALLS” 1961 DRUG ABUSE & ADDICTION AWARENESS FILM w/ PAUL NEWMAN XD50844

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This anti-drug abuse and addiction educational film features the well known American actor Paul Newman. In the movie, Newman and Dr. James L. Goddard, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, examine the effects of misuse of barbiturates and amphetamines. The film opens with Paul (:18). Amphetamines are stimulants which affect the central nervous system (1:58). Barbiturates are central nervous system depressants (2:13). One man's story is heard as he ingested stimulants while driving for a firm in order to take a run that was too long (3:38). He began to hallucinate while driving causing erratic driving behavior (4:21). After shooting at the hallucination, he pulled off into a near by town in order to shake off his imaginary pursuer (5:13). He tried to crash the vehicle in order to save himself (5:27). The camera pans up to show the overturned semi-truck (5:30). Photographs are compared of the damage inflicted on a man’s physical appearance after two months of heavy use (6:46). Barbiturates were the number one cause of death (7:14). The two groups of users are broken down (7:46). A woman recounts her experience watching her brother suffer with addiction as he lost his job (8:24). Footage is shown of barbiturate users slipping into withdraw which was often more dangerous than narcotic use as they convulse, seize and sometimes die in the process (9:53). The combination of bennies and goofballs is looked to (10:49). One man was sent through his windshield while driving under the influence (10:58). He quit for one year after the accident until he ran into his former dealer and relapsed (11:36). The drug use caused him to lose reliability in society after incidences with the law (11:52). It also changed how his brain worked as he found himself moving and talking slower (12:10). He also experienced difficulty controlling his emotions (12:36). Another case shows an eighteen year old in jail for murder (13:13). He was convicted and sentenced to death by the electric chair. Footage shown is from a live interview conducted to collect any statements from the defendant (13:25). The defense council questions him over his drug use and his older companion as they were both involved in a series of offenses spread over five states (14:14). His message to young viewers is that he hoped if he were to die by electric chair it might deter others from trying the drug (15:25). Scenes follow from drug busts (15:36) as the FDA had been fighting drug trafficking. The FDA was limited due to loop holes in the Federal Drug and Cosmetic Act (15:48). Lyndon B. Johnson is seen in the White House (16:21) as he signs Drug Abuse Control Amendments into law on July 15th, 1965 (16:30). He speaks about the drug problem in the US (16:32) as about half of those produced were being diverted for criminal trafficking. This law enabled the FDA to require manufacturers and distributors to keep accurate records of barbiturates, amphetamines and other similar substances (17:53). It also allowed special agents to go undercover in order to track drugs down as well as cooperation with other agencies in order to build an educational campaign for parents and teens (18:12). This film was produced by the FDA (19:00).
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[@ITILII]

"Hopped up on goofballs!" - Clancy Wiggum, Chief of Police, Springfield (Simpsons)

[@poesgro9022]

😆

[@SPotter1973]

WHO ARE THOSE GUYS¿

[@billp4]

I thought of this immediately myself

[@thedangersofoxygen135]

I feel like that was a Conan Obrien joke

[@MichaelSheehy75]

It's a satire of Joe Friday on Dragnet, though he didn't say the exact quote.

[@jamesslick4790]

In the 1980's we learned about DRUGS in health class. School, being School; They used some outdated slang. My sister (who actually WAS stoned at the time, LOL) misread "Goofballs" as "Golf balls"! in a book about drug abuse. She asked me: "How the HELL would you SWALLOW them?" We laughed for 15 minutes, then smoked some more weed.

[@The1trueking1966]

It's called GRASS

[@jamesslick4790]

@@The1trueking1966 Yeah, man... GRASS, WEED, HERB, MARINARA - Whatever the cool kidz call it. I'm tourqued , spiffed,elongated, and/ or pixelated RIGHT NOW .. or whatever the cool kidz call it.

[@stevenvarner8338]

West Coast turn around refers to drivers making long distance trips to the West Coast and turning around and coming back to the East Coast

[@katthefantastic]

I love the slang we used back then. Especially in the late 40s early 50s. Love this nostalgia, thank you!💖

[@user-sh2mk8ew4c]

Gee willikers!!!

[@JasonFlorida]

It's just swell

[@katthefantastic]

@@charleBerglund 😆😆😆

[@aPoorsPerspective]

@@katthefantastic we used to be a proper country

[@katthefantastic]

@@aPoorsPerspective 😆 when was this, and in what way do you define proper?😆

[@calbob750]

Before Red Bull and energy drinks, if you were an over the road long distance trucker Benzedrine was the fuel of choice to “keep on truckin” in the 40s and 50s.

[@samusvikerness661]

I'd have been in serious trouble.

[@mikelavelle5019]

White Crosses

[@user-sh2mk8ew4c]

Exactly. My grandfather told me ALL about taking Benzedrine. In the late 40’s early 50’s.

[@dirtywhiteboy4963]

popping them bennys!

[@Ketannabis]

I am a bit jealous they could get them OTC back then!

[@barnabuscollins5038]

HIGH AS A KITE EVERYBODY!!! GOOFBALLS!!!!! *points at Flanders as church bus drives by.

[@Dino6961]

if we saw somebody who was acting strangely when I was a kid my mom would say they must be on goofballs.

[@TestECull]

60 years later we know cracking down on it with law enforcement is not useful in any stretch, just clogs up the criminal justice system without helping addicts not be addicts anymore. Ah well.

[@agems56]

Yup! And here in Crazy kanuck country we simply copped out and legalized weed and opened up needle stations to "help" those addicts on fentinol! Go figure!

[@NoirL.A.]

as long as the prison industrial complex continues to turn a profit the laws will remain the same. guaranteed.

[@DCxSkateboarding]

@@agems56 well why should weed be illegal? why shouldnt we offer safe use locations? what good arguments do you have against these measures?

[@alanpecherer5705]

@@DCxSkateboarding It shouldn't be illegal, but it should be acknowledged that it makes you stupid, and it makes you stupid enough to not realize that it makes you stupid.

[@electrolytics]

Not useful in any stretch? Really? So using law enforcement to intercept large quantities of smuggled drugs isn't useful? Arresting dealers who are caught dealing dangerous drugs that are poisoning cities isn't useful? And how about treatment for drug addicts, how is that working out? 10% success rate? You don't actually know anything about law enforcement or the ways in which drugs affect a society, you're just repeating what a bunch of progressive liberals, drug users and convicts have been spouting out.

[@johnlouisville]

Newman no doubt saw up close the effects of amphetamine abuse among Hollywood actors, such as Judy Garland.

[@soft_serve_666]

We can thank Louis B. Meyer and the rest of MGM for getting her hooked at a young age.

[@jefflyon2020]

wasn't Judy Garland's death in 1969or70 attributed to phenobarbital overdose?I wanna say in france or Italy?she did begin to look like shit in her last few movies (judy was amazing in the movie with Burt Lancaster named "the children will wait, or a similar name).

[@diablo666541]

Same Carrie fishers dad he was speeding freak

[@akatripclaymore.9679]

Marilyn....

[@BushyHairedStranger]

Full legalization and regulation of ALL drugs! Appropriate state & community based regulation taxation of those drugs of concern. Drug taxes could be used for Drug education & options to health care for any issues related to emotional problems that some might find relief from in drugs. Regulation must keep monopolies out. Reventing ting a massive monopoly, just as Adolf Coors or the Budwiser dynasty have done with beer. All adults should be able to procure any drug the so desire in pharmaceutically measured doses that are 100% pure with no adulterants, the highest quality available in a high variety of types. If adult chemists wanted to make a drug for persons use they should have legal access to ALL the precursors, glassware and ish to make their own drugs(Grow Cannabis-Mushrooms-Opium-Ephedra-Coca-

[@ami2evil]

Yes...

[@diablo666541]

Cartels will keep it illegal even if have blow up dispensary and kill every one in it.

[@jamesslick4790]

"West Coast Turnarounds" is a good name for a band. P.S. It Can't be 1961 if they mentioned a law signed by President JOHNSON in 1965!

[@KennethMeacomes]

If you remember Quaaludes you have a story to tell.

[@drewdunn2066]

I had a boss in the 90's once that told me you could smoke them or eat them. He said they stopped making them because everyone was abusing them. I was in my early 20's then, so I don't remember them from experience per se, but I remember that story.

[@bryanjones14]

I found a lemon 🍋 714 in a box in my closet lol

[@robertthayer5779]

Dragnet badge #714.... Hollywood KNEW. Bunch OF DRUGGIES TO THIS DAY.

[@KennethMeacomes]

After the Georgia guidestones came down they dug up a time capsule that was planted there. Among some of the things found in the capsule were an 8-track tape of Saturday night fever and 1,700 Quaaludes.

[@_RobBanks]

did they feel like the first time you took a perc? that was bliss.

[@jim7627]

Clearly one of Paul Newman's best performances here. I think he beat out Marlon Brando for an Academy Award on this one ...

[@brentschmitt3338]

He kept mispronouncing barbiturates

[@LuciFeric137]

Ahhhh the good ol days.

[@zeebboo4517]

"Hey this guy is on my salad dressing bottle!"

[@TombstoneChris]

So we are made to believe that the drug problem really wasn't major until the 1970s. But I've seen films on this channel all the way back to the 1950s. So you're telling me that this is something that has been going on for almost a century? Maybe it's not the drugs that's the problem maybe it's the people that don't understand why people use drugs that's the problem. Maybe it's the way they are viewed that's the problem. And maybe it's the way we treat people who use drugs that's the problem.

[@_RobBanks]

yes

[@davidgarris2513]

My older sister called me a goofball as a kid in the '70s.

[@dopeinfertility]

Gay and affectionate nicknames!!!!! Hahahahahahaha best line in this thing

[@CinnamonGrrlErin1]

Kind of ironic that I'm addicted to Newman's Own salsa

[@elonmust7470]

gross

[@kingcobra7183]

Hi my names ralllpph

[@dinosowermethod]

You must have diarrhea alot lol

[@jasminegoin5006]

Lol!

[@mjb0183]

Paul Newman did a similar presentation for PCP addiction.

[@jaenboston2683]

They were so cheap in the 70's. In 71" you could get them for .25- .50 cent and by 1974, the were a buck. The three most popular were reds, tuinals (christmas trees) and qualudes. By 1976, they were hard to find.

[@hippiekarl7]

"I got a broom-stick on the throttle to keep my throttle-foot dancing around, And a cup full of cold, black coffee, and a pocket full of West Coast turnarounds...." ----'Speedball Tucker' in that Jim Croce song

[@davidgarris2513]

People do what they are going to do. No point in even trying to control it

[@laurabeane8862]

🎶Who put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Ovaltine?🎶

[@themadhatter196]

I think he's had a bit too many west coast turnarounds

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

God bless Fred Eaglesmith.

[@eamonwright7488]

Haha

[@tony690]

Lol

[@distractionchannel4954]

@Montréal 🇨🇦:GOOFBALLS...Jean-Paul, Rest in PEACE 🙏😇

[@kevinskoda7794]

Oh well and good, but did anybody else notice what I noticed or am I the only one. I'm pretty damned amazed this film was made in 61 and I'm looking at footage of President Johnson in 65.

[@jacktorrance2633]

Everyone making this film was probably on goofballs during production! They probably couldn't remember their own names much less what year it was.

[@huwzebediahthomas9193]

Destroyed the lives and health of many a Hollywood starlet.

[@PattMcCrotch]

Marilyn Monroe could attest to that.

[@dennisyoung4631]

“Valley of the Dolls…”

[@mharris5047]

@@PattMcCrotch You would have to go to wherever Marilyn ended up (Heaven or Hell) to talk to her about her experience with goofballs. Rumor has it that she had some "help" dying that night and that she didn't die of a self-administered dose, though.

[@billswing1445]

2022 it's ironic that you see Paul Newman giving a talk on drugs and we all know and that glamor world of Hollywood you find the most drugs anywhere. For one thing Paul was a drinker and he's had his fair share of drugs

[@ktatlow]

Film is no earlier than 1965, because of segment on LBJ signing legislation.

[@NoirL.A.]

a surprising number of these old clips are labelled incorrecly as far as dates.

[@damientumor]

It looks like President Johnson is trying not to laugh when he says 'goofballs'.

[@RyanE.1984]

I Love Paul Newman, Awesome 👌

[@LucasChoate]

This can't be 1961 if LBJ is president. In fact, in the arrest scenes, there is a 1964 chevy or pontiac shown and they discuss the DACA signed in 1965.

[@damientumor]

You're right.....I think it's a 1963 or 64 Buick Riviera........beautiful car!

[@ericjohnson8001]

It's the CIA. . mk ULTRA

[@pandasexshaanix3163]

Let’s all drink a case of beer and enjoy notorious drinkers lecturing ppl on other drugs Perspective is the hardest drug of all.

[@martitinkovich4489]

Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! You said it.

[@DrMatey215]

I love benzadrine!

[@thewkovacs316]

I saw this in jr high in the 70s

[@robertkroberjr.157]

Mother's little helper 💊🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@davidgarris2513]

... running for the shelter of mother's little helper.... Mick jagger

[@tony690]

Yep. Those little yellow pills were known as Desoxyn, which was also amphetamines. We used to call them debs.

[@tony690]

@Jayden k all video with a hamburger and a pencil C'mon, man!

[@fredflintstoner596]

TAKE THE BLINDFOLD OFF IT MIGHT IMPROVE YOUR OBSERVATION SKILLS !

[@dougkennedy4906]

If you remembered this film being shown at school. Your old. And yes I am.

[@karenannharbor5755]

It was so long ago you can’t remember how you were taught to spell “you’re”…

[@nicholasbstone]

@@karenannharbor5755 Spoken like a true "Karen"

[@Dubski]

Just passing time as I wait to score and this popped up. Go figure!

[@dennisyoung4631]

Like in William S. Burroughs - “Junkie,” & “Naked Lunch…” Or, the Fugs song, “New Amphetamine Shriek.”

[@jackpinesavage1628]

I remember when my friend, Dale Bodner, would sniff modeling glue, His face, around his eyes, would become very dark. He told me he felt like he was flying around the ceiling in his mobile home trailer. Dale died two years ago. Rest in peace.

[@NoirL.A.]

i tried sniffing glue once all it did was give me a pounding headache. never did it again.

[@brentschmitt3338]

I knew this kid that had an older brother that had built probably a hundred models

[@brentschmitt3338]

He was “way out there”

[@ogkush2539]

@@braininavatnow9197 Fr ? Crazy I've never heard about sniffing modeling glue but I have heard about in Mexico some young people with use a rag dowced in either some type of glue and for a fact paint thinner I had an older cousin that would get messed up off of paint thinner he would say that it would make him halucinate cuz he would you a small rag or piece of cloth and drench it in paint thinner he would trip balls out his mind on the floor out back in his garage getting caught and almost killing his father trying to fight because he wasn't in his right mind SMH

[@howiedewin3688]

Kid next door was huffing freon. Somehow inhaled the liquid & froze his lungs.

[@leavethelightsonpleasethec7154]

I remember when I was kick happy

[@bandpassmess]

I’ve taken supplements you can buy over the counter that had me running 3 days straight. I stopped because it was cheap and no one was complaining over OD . I found alcohol one of the worst drugs I ever did CHEAP EASY AND NO LIMIT HOW MUCH CONSUMPTION.

[@jacehendrix3194]

What supplements?

[@bandpassmess]

@@jacehendrix3194 without getting into trouble Most information I use is off the internet I’m not a highly educated person BUT looking at the structure of illicit drugs you will find out there is very little difference. Look at your local grocery store that’s where I got mine I also got some from web . I’m in constant pain when “THE GREAT CHOP “ occurred 2012 under BO office they cut all my legal scripts for pain meds off I had to learn quickly , oddly enough the fentanyl crisis of today started.

[@jacehendrix3194]

@@bandpassmess so you can't just say what the legal things you use are? How would you get in trouble? They are legal.

[@mikeheaton8424]

I agree , alcohol is the worst drug I experienced.

[@_RobBanks]

why did u stop if they were cheap?

[@YourLocalCatboy]

James Goddard was FDA commissioner from 1966 to 1968, placing this film within that period.

[@NoirL.A.]

i was up on meth for 3 days one time when i was a teenager and i had exactly the same sorts of hallucinations as the truck driver it was awful. i never touched that shit again i mean i seriously thought i was gonna die that night the auditory hallucinations were bad enough but then the visuals actually kicked in it was horrid.

[@karlosvulture7707]

That's sleep deprivation...you are lucky that you stopped....

[@NoirL.A.]

@@karlosvulture7707 it was easy i never wanted to go through that again and i never did.

[@karlosvulture7707]

@@NoirL.A. good on you.... I know many people that couldn't just stop....

[@drewdunn2066]

@@karlosvulture7707 No, it's the sleep deprivation combined with the psychotic/psychedelic effects of the amphetamine. All amphetamines shift from feelings of strength and euphoria at first, then comes the paranoia, then the hallucinations if you keep taking them for extended periods. MDA and MDMA are euphoric and psychedelic when you take the very first dose, just imagine staying awake on them for three days. I once stayed awake for almost two days at a music festival, then tried to drive 7 hours home and had to pull over because I was seeing castles and dragons in the red tail lights of the passing vehicles...

[@_RobBanks]

@@drewdunn2066 mdma is not a psychedelic though. Stimulant/Entheogen.

[@space2k]

Dr. Godard’s crew cut scared me right off the dope.

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

IKR?!?

[@drewdunn2066]

6:55 They call it speed on account of how fast it makes your hair grow. Two months my balls.

[@Danogil]

this isn't from 1961 it is from 1965 or 66

[@billp4]

Hey Bennie, pass me the goofballs.

[@craiglyles4755]

Nothing has changed except the silly names.

[@tony690]

Nor will it ever change, brother.

[@t8r507]

The selection and variety is basically dead... They keep all the good stuff for themselves stockpiling it in their bunkers for when the day comes they decide to do whatever it is they got up they sleeves.

[@t8r507]

What a variety people had access to back then. You had to have a drug thesaurus to remember them all. Now there's barely 4 or 5 different varieties and they are making it hard for people who legitimately need pain management to even have access to these remaining varieties. Oh, they'll write you scripts for xyzal or linisopral, or geogoogue, or one of the 10 new varieties they cook up and have a commercial for every year like clockwork. They'll hand you that like candy and not give 2 hoots in hell but you ask for a decent pain med and watch a doctor go straight through the goddamn roof! But when their loved ones sprain an ankle or stubs a toe oh it's top tier schedule 2 all the way for them.

[@_RobBanks]

They are taught to not typically prescribe any medication a patient acts for outright and directly , say by name. but I know what you're saying and where you are coming from. I've never heard of any one of those three drugs, xyzal, liniosopral, and geogoogue. Are they anti-depressants? Those drugs are extremely strong and potentially dangerous. But the worst part is that the patient doesn't discover this until its too late, and trying to come off or down. Also, was the variety an actual variety in different classes? Or was it a variety of the same class, like opiates for example. From codeine all the way up to Carfentanil. Tramadol > Demerol > Codeine > Hydrocodone > Oxycodone > Hydromorphone > Oxymorphone > Fentanyl > Carfentanil (and my personal favorite) Truckfentanyl.

[@t8r507]

@@_RobBanks Lisinopril and Xyzal are actually meds but I made the last one up just to show how they come out with these type of meds every year something new...

[@t8r507]

@@_RobBanks What I'm getting at is some people like myself are permanently disabled no hope or possibility of not being disabled and everyday for the rest of your life your gonna be in pain and people who need actual treatment for lifetime nit just 2 or 3 years then they boot you out

[@Reggie-The-Dog]

​@@t8r507Damn. I really wanted to try geogoogue.

[@DavidMueller666]

REPEAL THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES ACT AND ALL SIMILAR LEGISLATION IN ALL JURISDICTIONS.

[@cha-ka8671]

8:10 what’s up with the sleeping mask? Is she trying to hide her identity? 😂

[@_RobBanks]

i know right? i thought that maybe she hadnt consented or even had knowledge of the interview taking place.

[@brentschmitt3338]

That was the good stuff

[@alicewolfson4423]

Need some today.

[@brentschmitt3338]

@@alicewolfson4423 About 25 years ago I worked with a guy that said he quit smoking cigarettes by taking half a qualude in the morning

[@brentschmitt3338]

20 years prior to then

[@alicewolfson4423]

@@brentschmitt3338 I used to get prescriptions for them. Those were the days.

[@manhoot]

Play stupid games win stupid prizes

[@steelermia]

when the video started, I had another tab open .. I thought it was rod serling

[@lizettewanzer8650]

"West coast turnarounds?" That's a first for me! 😂🤣

[@alicewolfson4423]

I always heard LA turnarounds.

[@akatripclaymore.9679]

Spun & Spunner...

[@bryanburnap4537]

Kick happy juveniles !! I love it

[@CharlesCoderre-yv1cu]

1961 with LBJ as president??? The film dates itself as 1965

[@deona267]

My goofball addiction is so crazy , going with goofballs is riding with the devils.

[@davidgarris2513]

A cautionary tale,. But hey, I like the flattop haircut

[@martitinkovich4489]

Gives that look of authority.

[@TwistedFister88]

Yay drugs!!

[@NIGHTOWL-jf9zt]

Hell, Paul and the other guy telling the story sound like they had a few before filming! I remember getting a hold of a black beauty one time. I sat in my bathroom watching the Keebler elves bake cookies in the gas hot water heater for over three hours. They would shuffle in and out of the little metal door plate that covered up the burner, and through the door leading to the attic. They looked sooooooooooo good. The little pricks never even offered me one. HAHAHAHAHA.

[@drewdunn2066]

bullshit bullshit bullshit

[@whiteprivilege7961]

Barbiturates don't make you hallucinate. You were dreaming if you can even do that passed out on barbiturates .

[@spencerjames8989]

Damn that must have been one hell of a black beauty my friend.

[@wil7228]

I remember that I was there

[@ami2evil]

Yea right guy, they don't make you hallucinate, stop making shit up...

[@Wildstar40]

8:10 That lady must be really really nice. She forgot she still had her sleeping mask over her eyes and nobody had the heart to tell her.

[@billp4]

She was talking about how she OBSERVED the drug problem.

[@NipkowDisk]

Hmmm... was "Fast Eddie" Felson's nickname due to misuse of amphetamines?

[@martitinkovich4489]

Naw......it's cuz he would shoot too quick.

[@cleokey]

Goofballs, heroin & alcohol were the combinations that we used in the 50s to get us beat-down...the beatnik

[@Ctrl-XYZ]

This is from 1965, not 1961. See 16:28 ... also, Lyndon Johnson was not president in 1961.

[@warlaker]

"Whatever they're selling, I don't want it!"

[@martitinkovich4489]

Newman musta got popped, and had to this drug porn to avoid jail time.

[@shirleya3615]

I Know, Right! 🤣

[@therapper000]

Whats the recreational dose for phenobarbital? Anyone knkw

[@hbailey1180]

Paul Newman's own Pep Pills!

[@stuartharper3968]

As a drug counselor and program director from 1980 - 2018 this film is far from todays world.

[@bamuz]

Can you elaborate?

[@samusvikerness661]

They said the drugs were so powerful in this old movie. My God, they couldn't imagine the new meth or fentanyl that can leave a person an empty shell in a few months of use like we have now.

[@user-sh2mk8ew4c]

My grandfather told me about him and the guys he worked with taking Benzedrine in the late 1940’s. What he described is the same as what crystal meth does today. I mean what’s the difference in staying up 3 to 4 days on Benzedrine vs. 2022 Crystal Meth?

[@teethgrinder83]

@@samusvikerness661 to be fair fentanyl has been approved for use in the medical field since 1968, not long after this film was made so it's not so much that the drug is new, it's more that smugglers didn't really see the point in adding fentanyl to heroin until relatively recently. As for meth, that's pretty much what they're talking about in this movie, the biggest difference is the lack of legislation now means instead of proper dosage and safely made pills being diverted and then abused like in this movie meth now is made illegally for easier and faster route of administration (smoking and injection) compared to pills, in the end it's not far off the same chemical structure though I think-a bit like how crack and cocaine are the same except crack is made for smoking making it hit much harder and faster. I guess it goes to show how making drugs outright illegal instead of controlling them just makes drugs far far more dangerous

[@teethgrinder83]

The sleeping pills they are talking about in this movie (barbiturates) were FAR more dangerous than the sleeping pills you get now (benzodiazepines) though. Overdose of barbiturates is much easier which is why they have been pretty much replaced all over the world in the medical field (meaning also illegally diverted pills) by benzos and "z-drugs" like zopiclone

[@budsforyou5908]

I prefer Qualudes myself.

[@daleshelden8394]

Now we have to worry about phentenol!

[@homersimpsonsfatguyhat9541]

Does anyone know anything about the case that the guy was on death row for?

[@bleedcubieblue]

Now its called Ice or glass.

[@ManInTheBigHat]

00:54 Back then you could still say "gay." We need to take back that word.

[@davidgarris2513]

An "older male companion" lol like Elton John?

[@activelow9297]

Year is 1965, not 1961.

[@flouisbailey]

Let’s get those poor people on something what can we use?

[@jbelme1]

Hey! That’s the salad dressing guy.

[@Denver_Risley]

I always wondered if goofballs were actually real.

[@isprobablyjobhunting]

I know Vonnegut used the word goofballs for...like an oxygen medication in Sirens of Titans. And chief wiggum references people being high on goofballs in a simpsons episode. But yeah never actually heard them referenced in reality.

[@RG-od8ri]

Took one. Only knew it as a goofball. Powerful sedative.

[@dennisyoung4631]

Mentioned in “Junkie” and “Naked Lunch” by Burroughs.

[@BushyHairedStranger]

A Goofball is shooting up a combo of Speed & Heroin. A Speedball is shot up Cocaine & Heroin-a lnother slang for Coke & Smack is a one & one or Black & White.

[@marioandreano1236]

Goofball so were barbiturates

[@johnspokus]

"Taking dope", LOL !

[@craigwells6227]

Let's all do some goofballs and bennies. Lol

[@stephenwend91]

Where do we get them? Lol

[@unassistedsuicide2243]

Good like finding Benzedrine or Secanol these days

[@flouisbailey]

PS how do you misplace 1/2 of everything produced. Wow is was/is Paul Newmans, gives new name to Newmans Own!

[@m_d1905]

It's called diversion. It gets stolen or misappropriated between manufacturers and distributors. Then the same happens between distributors and the pharmacy stores.

[@R32R38]

I know someone who actually licked hallucinogenic toads. It was a fairly mild effect.

[@davidgarris2513]

Beavis and Butt-Head

[@theshib277]

typically the venom is extracted and sun-dried. lucky they didnt go into cardiac arrest. drying in the sun causes the destruction/evaporation of the toxin that effects the heart and cv systems, about as reliably as you could imagine sun-drying anything could be. erowid reports have a couple of personal experiences where cardiac arrest and loss of bowel control are mentioned.

[@jaminova_1969]

Licking toads? Was he hopped up on drugs?

[@bromisovalum8417]

Licking toads is a myth. You have to smoke the dried skin of the toad. The drug is not orally active.

[@bryanjones14]

You smoke it

[@stevenleek1254]

The Commissioner is on dope. I mean, just look at those eyebrows! Paul is cool. He don't need no drugs.

[@martitinkovich4489]

I know he don't..........but he uses them anyway.

[@williamkuhns2387]

The host looks similar to Paul Newman.

[@riff2072]

Goofball

[@flouisbailey]

Is it Paul?

[@PattMcCrotch]

His name is in the headline

[@elonmust7470]

God people are stupid.

[@dennisyoung4631]

A younger version, yes.

[@spencerjames8989]

6:50 lol guys looks the same but with his hair a bit longer.

[@martitinkovich4489]

That's what i thought too.........glad it's not just me.

[@woolfy02]

The random 65-year-old man at the party 7:49

[@Bacalao2929]

my father called glue- Goofballs

[@lindathrall5133]

I NEVER GOT INVOLVED WITH ILLEGAL STREET DRUGS I SAID NO THANK YOU

[@alexisrios9759]

You think is 1961? I saw Lyndon B. Johnson as president, so it could be 1965 up to 1968.

[@marcbenish2204]

And who knew Ronald and Nancy Reagan would learn how to cook crack in a microwave Jan 12 1986

[@mharris5047]

Who would know that Richard Pryor would burn himself to a crisp trying to make what is now known as "crack" in the early 1980's.

[@_RobBanks]

does that lady know shes being video taped? lol why is she blindfolded. hmmm thats strange. never have i seen that before!

[@shadowx2229]

seems like all these people wanted their faces hidden. makes sense if you lived in small town back then

[@Unfunny_Username_389]

barber-CHEW-rits lol

[@wil7228]

Now we got crack , smack and go fast keep locking these people up .

[@mastershake1187]

So I guess Brian Regan ended up like that cause his dad was such a stick in the mud

[@jrod6891]

Why is that lady wearing a sleeping mask when she's being interviewed