Sleeping Beauty (Cheech & Chong album)

The album cover and title refer to the once-popular drug secobarbital, a barbiturate derivative commonly known as "reds".^[2] Used for epilepsy and insomnia, the drug was widely abused in the 1960s and 1970s.^[2] The original LP album cover folded out into a giant red capsule,^[1] bearing a pharmaceutical code resembling that of secobarbital pills of the 1970s. The inner sleeve featured a photo of a "red" placed on a person's tongue;^[1] this image was used as the cover art for the remastered CD.^[3] Many other references to "reds" have been made on Cheech & Chong's albums and in their films.^{[citation needed]}