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Perhaps when I first posted under this subject I should have clarified by specifying “Illegal” drug use. I was not referring to the 19th Century and earlier when such drug use was not illegal, and so far I have found no statistics indicating higher prevalence of drug use then compared to now, anyway.
As I already pointed out, Illegal drug use in the U.S. is certainly higher now than it was 60 years ago…. and it is rising. The U.S. has the highest illegal use of cocaine and cannabis in the world now, according to a study by University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
Ed
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There were Opium dens, there was hashish, there was laudanum, there was cocaine, women took arsenic to keep a white milky complexion, there were even addictions to chloroform. As for sex, there were harlots mentioned in the Bible, that's before 1800 (lol) · Scene in a Chinese Opium Palace - San Francisco, 1880 · Abuse of Chloral Hydrate Quarterly Journal of Inebriety, Vol. 4 (January, 1880), 53-54. · The Opium Habit: A Statistical and Clinical Lecture By Charles W. Earle Chicago Medical Review, Vol. 2 (1880), 442-46. · A Man of A Thousand, A Consumptive Cured, Source: THE GLOBE (Canada), 1881 · Experiences of Recent Opium Smokers, By Leslie Keeley, The Morphine Eater; or From Bondage to Freedom (Dwight, IH.: C. L. Pahner Co., 1881), 146-68. · Opium Addiction Among Medical Men, By J. B. Mattison Medical Record, Vol. 23 (June 9, 1883), 621-23. · A Hashish-House in New York, By H. H. Kane, Harper's Monthly, Vol. 67 (November, 1883), 944-49. · The Demon of the Orient Allen S. Williams, New York: "Published by the Author," 1883 Chapter IV. An American's Palace Joint Another chapter of the evils of opium. · An Overdose of Hashish, 1884 · The Chloroform Habit as Described by One of Its Victims, Detroit Lancet, Vol. 8 (1884-1885), 251-54. · The Opium Habit [in Iowa] By J. M. Hull Iowa State Board of Health, Third Biennial Report (Des Moines: George E. Roberts, 1885), 535-545. · A Hashish-House in New York The Curious Adventures of an Individual Who Indulged in a Few Pipefuls of the Narcotic Hemp. by H.H. Kane (1888) · American Life as Related to Inebriety, By Edward P. Thwing, .M.D. Quarterly Journal of Inebriety, Vol. 10 (January, 1888) 7 43-50. · How the Opium Habit is Acquired by Virgil G. Eaton The Popular Science Monthly 33, Sept. 1888, 663-67 · Confessions of a Young Lady Laudanum-Drinker, Anonymous The Journal of Mental Sciences January 1889 · Awa by F.L. Clarke Overland Monthly, V. 13 #75 (1889) -------Original Message------- From: Ed What did they have for drugs in the 1880s? I don’t even thing Marijuana was popular while I was in school in the 50’s …. And even early 60s where I lived. …. And sex didn’t happen as often as now, by any study I’ve seen. There was little control available for pregnancy and getting pregnant was a BIG deal back then. | ||
