Acid Jazz Age

What would you all prefer?


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For the record MDMA was developed in OTL at Merck in 1912. No one realized its 'other' abilities until much later though.

How the hell did I miss that? Thanks though. It's interesting that both LSD and MDMA were first synthesized while looking for drugs to control bleeding.
 
How the hell did I miss that? Thanks though. It's interesting that both LSD and MDMA were first synthesized while looking for drugs to control bleeding.

Well blood loss tends to lead to nasty things, such as temporary, or even permanent, death.
 
Yes yes and an extra serving of hell yes. I remember seeing you post about that idea a while ago, and I thought it was incredibly awesome at the time. My opinion hasn't changed.
 
Hold it. You're seriously proposing full-scale production of a couple of organic compounds whose synthesis is a multistep process, and carrying this out with early 20th century chemical manufacturing technology? I think not.

The pharmaceutical industry as we know it now barely existed back then (indeed, in 1920, aspirin was all of 25 years old, and until the Great War, was essentially a monopoly of a chemical company in Bavaria--or Bayern, as it's otherwise known).

Sorry, but I don't believe the organic synthesis, the control, the separation and/or the heat transfer technology existed then for either of these compounds to be more that milligram laboratory curiosities.

Wasn't Bayer in Westphalia, not Bavaria?
 
Thanks for the bump. I am reading up and learning more before I start posting anything. It is one of those things were the more I write and read, the more I realize I don't know that much. I just want a solid start before I get in too deep. That's been my problem before.
 
The TL wilt be awesome. The 1920's were already pretty counterculture and look a lot like the 1960's.

Jazz=Rock
Flappers=Hippies
Lost Generation=Baby Boomers
Alister Crowley=Charles Manson/Timothy Leary
Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra=The Beatles (Debatebly, but "How the Beatles Destroyed Rock n' Roll" seems to think so)
 
Hopefully next week. Problem is between work, my girlfriend and Black Ops I don't have much time left over to use for research/writing.

I do have the entirety of Thanksgiving week off which should help. Please feel free to keep the suggestions coming. The TL will definitely be Americentric, given the nature of how such things spread slowly, by word of mouth and so forth. So European culture won't really be influenced terribly much. Also, the political changes won't be so immediate.
 
If you do this right, it will be glorious. I would suggest Alister Crowley should be a Tim Leary figure, with the drug being a key to the gateway of the human consciousness and opening mankind eyes to the beyond and what really is. It's be interesting to see other Macabre figures, like HP Lovecraft's take on it.
 
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