LOS ANGELES (AP) — Before there was Molly there was the quaalude, the most popular party drug of the 1970s.
It was also the one Bill Cosby kept on hand to give to young women he wanted to have sex with.
In 10-year-old testimony uncovered this week, Cosby said he would offer the drug “the same as a person would say, ‘Have a drink.'”
The drug was outlawed in the United States in 1982 but was hugely popular 40 years ago. It was originally intended as an anti-malarial treatment, but later found to be a great painkiller and sleep aid.
Soon people discovered that it also released sexual inhibitions and that when mixed with alcohol it produced a mellow euphoria. It also made it difficult for an intoxicated woman to resist a man’s advances.
