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  • Methaqualone is a pharmaceutical depressant, referred to as mandrax in Southwest Asia and Africa.

    Notes and Definitions 2008

  • Only Methaqualone (used in the manufacture of Mandrax) and

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2001

  • The deal, in which the SADF supposedly bought Methaqualone - used in the manufacture of the drug Mandrax - from Croatia, went sour when the Croatian government allegedly confiscated South African funds transferred to a Swiss bank account to secure the deal.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • About two years later, a further US2,4 million, which Basson claimed would be used to buy Methaqualone - the substance used in manufacturing Mandrax - from Croatia, was used for Basson's personal benefit and to finance, amongst others, a golf development in Belgium, Bruwer said.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • The State has also charged Basson with the illegal possession of Ecstasy, Methaqualone and cocaine found in four locked metal trunks that were stored at the house of one of his acquaintances, and later confiscated by investigators of the Office for Serious

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • He allegedly also headed a project code-named Mosrefcat to manufacture 1200kg of Methaqualone, and was in 1995 responsible for setting up a tablet manufacturing plant at Special Forces headquarters outside Pretoria.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • Methaqualone is a nonbarbiturate sedative increasingly used by adolescents in recent years.

    Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

  • Methaqualone is a pharmaceutical depressant, in slang referred to as

    The 1995 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Methaqualone is a pharmaceutical depressant, referred to as mandrax in Southwest Asia.

    The 1999 CIA Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

  • Methaqualone is a pharmaceutical depressant, referred to as mandrax in Southwest Asia and Africa.

    The 2004 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency

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