Hi, my name is Lloyd Lockridge, and I'm the host of a new podcast from Odyssey called Family

lore. In this podcast, I'm going to have people on to tell unusual and sometimes far-fetched

stories about their families. I've heard my whole life that she invented the margarita. And then,

we're going to investigate those stories and find out how much of it is true. He gets a patent,

one month before the Wright brothers.

Oh my God.

Please follow and listen to Family Lore, an Odyssey podcast,

available now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your shows.

Max Marshall grew up in Dallas. He came to Columbia University for college in the early 2010s,

and one of the first things he noticed was the amount of Xanax on campus.

There were kids I knew who were dealing. There were a lot of kids I knew who were using it,

both as like a kind of chill-out drug for anxiety,

but also as this party drug. People are mixing it with mostly alcohol because it gets you about

four times as drunk than if you just were drinking beer and then you wouldn't be hung over

the next day. But also mixing it with kind of everything. People would call it a sidecar drug,

like the little sidecar on a motorcycle.

After graduation, Max moved to Vietnam to work as a journalist.

He mostly wrote features about Vietnamese culture and the arts.

He wrote a story for GQ about Vietnamese Canadian drug traffickers

tied to the Mexican cartel boss El Chapo,

who were smuggling drugs around the world.

But he kept wanting to write about Xanax, partly as a warning to college kids.

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