Feds probe Danny Gans pharmacy sex pill

The Las Vegas Sun reports that the federal Drug Enforcement Administration, the Nevada Public Safety Department and the State Board of Pharmacy are investigating the manufacture and distribution of Vegas Mixx, the male erection pill that combined Valium and Viagra and was advertised to Las Vegas visitors with the promise it would allow them to "F* like a pornstar."

The drug was manufactured and marketed by of Green Valley Drugs, the Henderson, Nevada pharmacy that was partly owned by the late entertainer Danny Gans, whom the Sun reminds its readers "died May 1 of a prescription narcotics overdose" and was "known for his squeaky-clean image." Scot Silber, the target of the probes. claims Gans did not know abotu the product that was manufactured and marketed while Gans was alive and starring on the Las Vegas Strip, and "would not have approved of Vegas Mixx."


The probes are centered on whether the pharmacy was producing the sex pills on speculation and distributing samples rather than waiting for patient-specific prescriptions from doctors. Silber said he invested thousands of dollars in Vegas Mixx, but sales were limp so he discontinued the product.

Report: Pharmacy co-owned by Danny Gans invented and sold sex pill that promised to help young male Vegas visitors "F like a porn star"

Another wrinkle has been added to the complicated image of late Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans with the report this morning that the pharmacy he co-owned marketed a male erection pill and advertised it in “crude terms… promising men in obscene terms on a Web site that they could perform ("F") “like a porn star.”

The Las Vegas Sun reports that Scott Silber, Gans’ partner in Green Valley Drugs of Henderson, Nevada, combined Valium and Valium and Viagra into a single pill and called it Vegas Mixx. The pill was advertised on a website in 2007 with “with the promise that the combination would mellow the mind, relax the muscle that causes ejaculation and provide a lasting erection.

“The Vegas Mixx Web site — aimed at guys who come to Vegas for a fling — used crude terms: ‘Vegas Mixx... makes you rock hard, and keeps you that way. Enjoy the ride.’”

The article by Marshall Allen mentions the Danny Gans connection in the fourth paragraph:

“Silber owned the pharmacy with entertainer Danny Gans, who was known for his squeaky-clean Christian image and died May 1 of a prescription narcotics overdose.

“Gans was not aware of Vegas Mixx, Silber said. ‘As you could probably guess, he would not have approved,’ he said.”

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According to the Sun article, Vegas Mixx idea was a failure and the website was taken down a month ago. Green Valley Drugs, however, could be haunted by the scheme.

“…Silber could face bigger troubles. Green Valley Drugs is a compounding pharmacy — meaning it can combine unique mixes of drugs, based on a doctor’s prescription — but may have been operating outside the bounds of its license. That could lead to investigations by the Nevada State Pharmacy Board and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.”

Danny Gans was 52, with a reputation as an athletic, clean-living evangelical Christian when he died unexpectedly on May 1st of an overdose of hydromorphone, a drug known commercially as Dilaudid and on the streets as “drugstore heroin.”

In the days following Gans’ death, his friends and family expressed amazement that he had been involved with drugs in any way. His ownership in the Green Valley Drugs was revealed in August. Gans’ partners insisted the musical impressionist did not use the place as his own dispensary.

This latest story comes amid a publicity push for Gans’ posthumous inspirational autobiography, The Voices In My Head, that included a television interview with his children.