[eno_]

According to the DEA site is was originally used as a safer alternative to barbituates.

So, because people were having fun with it, it is banned.

Such is the logic of the Drug War.

[wardaddy]

Yes...it was a sleeping pill essentially...a hypnotic but idiosyncratically, it actually made folks loose and a bit energetic...blurred energetic, not speedy.

And as I said before, the relaxing of sexual inhibitions properties were legendary.

It was dangerous insofar as abuse and driving etc.

And a lot of later lamented sexual activity was engaged in. It was a wild time...I would not wish it on my teenaged daughters....not by a long shot.