Norman Ohler
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
had a really good time and they were like more active.
They were talkative because that's what happens on methamphetamine.
So the company really thought this is a great product and they turned it into a product.
They went to the patent bureaucracy and got the patent for methamphetamine.
And then it quite quickly came onto the market.
It was labeled as Pervitin.
which is kind of a great name because it has like the perverse already in it.
And this paritin pervertin was available in any pharmacy.
So you just, you didn't need a prescription.
A child could go and buy 10 packs of pure methamphetamine.
So methamphetamine was also very cheap.
So it became quite popular because people talked about it.
They didn't really know what it was.
I mean, I also read, I went to the archive of that company also, of course.
So they were like, what is it good for?
Like, I just feel great when I take it and I have more energy.
And they didn't know if that could be a product.
Like it was 1937, 38 when they were discovering it.
Well, they called it a performance enhancer.
Is drinking a coffee in the morning a drug?