Talk:Benzedrine in popular culture

message: This article fails to say if benzedrine is still available. And, if so, what name is it now under? As far as I know there is no longer an exclusively amphetamine prescription drug. Only combinations of it (adderall) . This is key to the whole article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.192.100.171 (talk • contribs) .
:Racemic amphetamine (Benzedrine) is obsolete (although it may still be used in the developing world). Dexedrine (d-amphetamine) is still commonly used, as is Adderal which is exclusively an amphetamine drug. --Bk0 (Talk) 13:01, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  does benzedrine exist anymore?  what about amphetamine? 

message: This article needs references quite badly. It could also use a fair bit of cleaning up, but I'll hold off on adding the appropriate tags (for now). Fuzzform 22:16, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: The reference to Kerouac and On the Road is directly refuted in the On The Road article.
Regarding the use of Benzedrine by the armed forces in WWII, there is a reference in 'The Wildest Province: SOE in the Land of the Eagle', p.229 by Roderick Bailey to an SOE doctor and his orderly taking it to keep going when on the run from the Germans in the Albanian mountains.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.240.211 (talk) 19:58, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Kerouac Reference

message: The "Influence" section had a lot of trivia like "Benzedrine was mentioned in a movie and there was this one song that like had the word in it lawlz" and so I split the famous humans affected from the "mentioned in a song" section, named Trivia.  
Also, the article interchanges Benzedrine with benzedrine, and the article should stay the same throughout.  Which is it?  Even trade names aren't always capitalised but usually are.  I'm not changing them one way or another until someone knows which spelling (capital B or no) it needs.  "Bennies" I have surely seen in books as lower case. 82.93.133.130 07:19, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rearranged

message: I'm not sure if this merits mention in the article; I think it does. I remember a documentary I watched a decade or two ago that made references to the German Wehrmacht issuing Benzedrine to Panzer and Tiger tank crews and ordering them to take considerable doses regularly.
The documentary also made mention of high incidences of psychotic breaks and indiscriminate bezerker behavior arising in soldiers after prolonged exposure. I can't seem to find references to this solid enough to edit the article.
Does anyone know more about this?
Manuelcuribe (talk) 04:26, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Benzedrine and WWII 

message: This article should include some information on the side effects and health issues of the drug.--Dwane E Anderson (talk) 22:11, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: find some reliable sources for them and add them yourself then --UltraMagnus (talk) 07:15, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Side effects? 

message: Most of this article, IMHO, should be merged with amphetamine, as Benzedrine was merely one brand name for amphetamine sulphate.
A lot of the "facts" dont seem to be referenced..... and it says "SKF started selling Benzedrine in 1933 or 34".... which is it?
121.209.49.58 (talk) 07:17, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article in General 

message: I have removed the following list from the article because it is just a random collection of trivia.  None of this information seems particularly relevant to the article, as far as I can tell.  If someone feels otherwise and would like to summarize key aspects of list and write some coherent prose about it, that could make a useful contribution to the article.  But with this silly list of trivia being much longer than the rest of the article, it just detracts from the quality of the article. -- Ed (Edgar181) 18:03, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Some of that isn't trivia. It is notable to mention its popularity in 1950s American literature, particularly the Beat Generation. Unless I am mistaken, Benzedrine is no longer commonly prescribed, so it's cultural legacy is notable, not just it's pharmacological history. It looks like there was already an accurate summary in what you removed. --Laslorajk (talk) 12:21, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can find a useful summary of notable material in the content that I removed, please feel free to copy it from here back into the article.  I don't dispute that benzedrine's cultural legacy may be notable, but my opinion is that at the very least there needs to be some kind of coherent prose written about it - not just a laundry list of individually trivial items.  -- Ed (Edgar181) 14:31, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  (Can't find my login password, so sorry, this is anon.) BUT... ok, I totally agree that laundry-lists like the one you reference above are a lazy way of writing an article.  That said, I think this VERY lengthy laundry list indicates how important this particular instance of amphetamine was to popular culture in the mid 20th century, and THAT deserves a more in-depth section than exists in the current article.  "Bennies" were a big deal from the 40s thru the 70s in the 20th century, both as a cultural construct (legend, myth) and as actually used substance.  The beatnik interest in Bennies is a powerful clue as to cultural importance of the drug in this form. Arguments that this article should be merged with the general Amphetamine article are wrong from this viewpoint (although perhaps correct from a strictly pharmacological viewpoint, but Wikipedia is a general interest encyclopedia and expected to cover cultural phenomena) -- "Bennies" were a significant cultural artifact, and it's important to make that clear to the increasing generations that did not live during that time.  Just pointing this out -- not a strong area of expertise personally, but certainly anyone who has read widely in the counter-cultural books/music/poems/essays of the post-war decades thru the 1970s will understand that this drug -- just like "grass", "speed", "acid", etc -- played a significant cultural role, and the current article does not address that at all. 24.42.102.51 (talk) 06:46, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Did this edit address your concerns? Seppi333 (Insert 2¢ | Maintained) 10:04, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  In popular culture