funny stuff! "Before Prohibition" Images from the preprohibition era when many psychotropic substances were legally available in America and Europe. https://wings.buffalo.edu/aru/preprohibition.htm
Lyoyd libary and Museum and cocaine Great picture Murry thanks. The Lloyd's were major USA herbal producers. The best herbal library in the word is the Loyd Library and Museum set up by them I will find the details and post it. You might be passing one day. The Cocaine Bush as it grows in SA, is fairly innocuous. Cocaine leaves chewed are good for altitude sickness and a pick-me-up- used like we would coffee (Remember Coke -a Cola a popular Pharmacist's drink was made with it. I have an old pharmacist's book with the recipe) The trouble comes when Cocaine is concentrated, extracted and purified .Then used out of its social/ethnic environment. Even more trouble comes when it is mucked about with chemically and "cracked" becoming very addictive.
the Lloyd Library and Museum Cheapscate! LLoydiana A publication of the Lloyd library and Museum 917 plum Street Cincinnati, OH 45202 513-271-3707 https://www.lloydlibrary.org Interseted in herbal history? Subscribe
Quick, effective pain killer when tooth breaks and nerve is exposed apart from screaming into your pillow which works as screaming releases dopamine but it's a short term fix and not sustainable. Zinc powder (or cornflour), clove oil and cotton wool. Mix six drops of the oil in with a pinch of the flour/powder and make into a doughy paste, feed little strips of cotton wool into it until it has a putty like feel. Plug the cavity then look longingly at a pack of TimTams. The remedy lasted me two days until I could get to a dentist and his eventual bill of $435. Lovely little bastid he was...