The Good Old Days!

[zapisy 10]

Maybe this question is strage, meybe funny, coincidence?

 

 

Did we have the Great Depression because of the Heroin ban?

 

 

 

 

Little History

 

Historians most often attribute the start of the Great Depression to the sudden and total collapse of US stock market prices on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday. However, some dispute this conclusion, and see the stock crash as a symptom, rather than a cause of the Great Depression.

 

 

Poison Act in 1907 making it a crime to sell opiates without a prescription, and bans on possession of opium or opium pipes in 1909. This mostly took place in 1910-11.

 

 

 

 

 

A bottle of Bayer's heroin. Between 1890 and 1910 heroin was sold as a non-addictive substitute for morphine. It was also used to treat children with strong cough

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metcalf Coca Wine was one of a huge variety of wines with cocaine on the market Everybody used to say that it would make you happy and it would also work as a medicinal treatment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mariani wine (1875) was the most famous Coca wine of it's time. Pope Leo XIII used to carry one bottle with him all the time. He awarded Angelo Mariani (the producer) with a Vaticangold medal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Produced by Maltine Manufacturing CompanyofNewYork. It was suggested that you should take a full glass with or after every meal... Children should take half a glass.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A paper weight promoting C.F. Boehringer & Soehne ( Mannheim , Germany ). They were proud of being the biggest producers in the world of products containing Quinine and Cocaine.

 

 

 

 

 

 

No comments. Cocaine tablets (1900)

 

 

 

 

 

 

All stage actors, singers, teachers and preachers had to have them for a maximum performance. Great to "smooth" the voice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very popular for children in 1885. Not only did they relieve the pain, they made the children happy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm sure this would make them sleep well (not only the Opium, but 46% alcohol!) That's 92 proof! Do you realize that most of our spirits (gin, vodka, scotch, etc.) are 80 proof! CMJ

 

 

 

No wonder they were called The Good Old Days!!

Edited March 12, 2010 by zapisy
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