What is Thionite? Science fiction's narcotic good stuff

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Perhaps the best-known example is soma, the euphoric drug in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, distributed by the state to keep the population content.

Utterly gratuitous nerdlyness, yet “soma” was referred to in quite ancient Vedic writings hundred(s) of years before Huxley yoinked it. That is, it may’ve been non-fictional

soma (n.) name of an intoxicant used in ancient Vedic ritual, prepared from the juice of some East Indian plant, 1785, from Sanskrit soma, from PIE *seu- “juice,” from root *seue- (2) “to take liquid” (see sup (v.2)). In “Brave New World” (1932), the name of a state-dispensed narcotic producing euphoria and hallucination.

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I dunno, I’ve had furan-substituted meth and MDA. They were both pretty fuckin potent.

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