Coffee Break Acid?

[drano]

SWIM don't be doin' no X but . . .

I recall reading a cartoon-style article in High Times in the late 70s on what they called MDA, which characterized it as a hallucinogen that produced a 30-minute trip, hence the nickname "coffee break acid". As I recall, the article said it was sold as some kind of gummy stuff and the method of usage was smoking it somehow, perhaps adding it to joints. A few years later in the early 80s "PCP" had a wave of popularity in US cities, particularly the most urban areas, and I recall it was smoked as joints soaked in some mysterious awful-smelling chemical and sold wrapped in foil and was commonly called "sherm" or at least something was sold that way by that name and I thought it must have been PCP. I wondered at the time if there was some connection between that and the "MDA" of the article. Anymore, I never hear anything about PCP, sherm, coffee break acid, or MDA as a term applied to a hallucinogen. Checking "coffee break acid" in google yields nothing that concatenates "acid" with "coffee break".

So, was the MDA (coffee break acid) of the article to which I refer above the same MDA commonly discussed now and associated with the term "ecstacy"? Or was there ever any connection between what used to be called MDA (coffee break acid) that long ago and PCP?

It may take a veteran of some substantial life experience to answer this, or perhaps someone with an exhaustive archive of High Times magazine. Thank you for digging into the memory cells.

[OiledMandible]

Can't see comparing MDA and PCP. But I'm not 66 and wasn't alive at the time of your article. Ecstasy is 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine or MDMA.

In SWIM's experience MDA does offer a far more psychadelic and much less speedy experience than MDMA. But neither offer any comparison to PCP.

In SWIM's experience coffee trip acid would be about a half blotter dissolved in a cup of water which one sips over the course of a day. Completely functional yet kinda not

[ThirdEyeFloond]

I think your recollecting has failed you, MDA is much longer lasting than a coffee break so it would make little sense. On the other hand N,N-DMT has been called 'the business man's trip' because of the short duration and, and is often smoked so I would guess the high times article was on DMT. Whether or not there is a link with PCP I don't know.

[Shiacmkmleer]

K maybe? I read an article about a high school that arrested a bunch of students who did it during lunch break.

[fnord]

Definitely NN-DMT.

[Micklemouse]

Without a doubt. 100%. On this wikipedia is correct

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltryptamine

If DMT is smoked, the maximal effects last for a short period of time (5 to 30 minutes, dose-dependent). The onset after inhalation is very fast (less than 45 seconds) and maximal effects are reached within about a minute. In the 1960s, some reportedly referred to DMT as "The Business Man's Trip" due to the relatively short duration of vaporized, insufflated or injected DMT.

Not quite coffee break acid, but near enough for me.

There was a Freak Brothers strip where Fat Freddy, if I remember rightly, takes MDA, which may be where the comic confusion comes from.

Closed.

[Alfa]

Either that article from the 70's was failing or your memory is.
N,N,-DMT is a businessman's trip, as described in many articles at that time that one could take it in a lunch break, due to the short duration. It is vaporized, which is similar to smoking.
PCP was often used to lace joints with.
MDA has a fairly long duration of 8 hours. So this is far from a coffee break. MDA was added to ecstasy or sold as such during the mid 90's. One does not come across MDA easily these days. FUBAR loved it, though it is likely one of the most neurotoxic empathogens.

EDIT: the mouse beat me to it again.