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If you were depressed, they might
prescribe you amphetamines. If you were tired, if you were at all chubby,
or even if you weren't chubby and wanted to be even thinner, you were prescribed amphetamines, and that's probably when Warhol
started taking them. 31 million people, at least,
in the United States were taking speed in 1967. There seems to be no particular
type of individual who gets involved in the speed scene and speed users range all
the way from ghetto people to very upper class individuals
prescribe you amphetamines. If you were tired, if you were at all chubby,
or even if you weren't chubby and wanted to be even thinner, you were prescribed amphetamines, and that's probably when Warhol
started taking them. 31 million people, at least,
in the United States were taking speed in 1967. There seems to be no particular
type of individual who gets involved in the speed scene and speed users range all
the way from ghetto people to very upper class individuals
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If you were depressed, they might
prescribe you amphetamines.
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If you were tired,
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if you were at all chubby,
or even if you weren't chubby
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and wanted to be even thinner,
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you were prescribed amphetamines,
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and that's probably when Warhol
started taking them.
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31 million people, at least,
in the United States
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were taking speed in 1967.
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There seems to be no particular
type of individual
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who gets involved in the speed scene
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and speed users range all
the way from ghetto people
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to very upper class individuals.
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Movie Summary
He was a pioneering artist and cultural icon and his work is a history of 20th-century America. A country reinventing itself as seen through an artist's eye. 3 part documentary looking at 20th century America through the life of W...
