Here's something a bit interesting.
Did you know that Winston Churchill was a drug addict? He was addicted to nitrous oxide.
Anthony Eden MP. British Prime Minister, 'lived on Benzedrine' throughout the 1952 Suez Crisis.
Sigmund Freud. Wrote effervescently of the "exhilaration and lasting euphoria" of cocaine and its "stimulative effect on the genitalia". Even penned a (now hard-to-find) essay, 'UberCoca,' extolling its virtues. "
Robert Louis Stevenson.
Wrote Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde in six days and nights on a cocaine binge. "That an invalid in my husband's condition of health should have been able to perform the manual labour alone of putting 60,000 words on paper in six days, seems almost incredible," said his astonished wife, Fanny.
King George V used to take a mixture of opium and cocaine.
Louis Armstrong smoked cannabis constantly. |