113 Drugs in the Age of War & Adventure - More than You Thought

Feb 21, 2024 · 24m 34s
113 Drugs in the Age of War & Adventure - More than You Thought
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Well here's a weird little detour for you - not food exactly, but ingested by early Americans all the same. Not so much by soldiers and adventurers on the road...

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Well here's a weird little detour for you - not food exactly, but ingested by early Americans all the same. Not so much by soldiers and adventurers on the road - but often when they were let on leave - especially if they were rich.

Lots of people were doing lots more drugs in early America than I thought - but in different ways and by different folks than I expected. Little old rich ladies were the most common opium addicts? Who knew? Me now.

And American and European medicine had little interest in anasthesia apparently. Wild.
Just whatever you do - don't get hurt on the battlefield. Dodge or die seemed to be the preferred modes. Because everything hurt, and unless you were really rich, or really lucky, it stayed that way.

Book! The African Roots of Marijuana by Chris S. Duvall

Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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