[SteamshipTime]

Actually, one of the more popular parlor tricks of the time was to inhale nitrous oxide. That's where Crawford Long got the idea for aenesthesia.

[Dane]

Actually, one of the more popular parlor tricks of the time was to inhale nitrous oxide. That's where Crawford Long got the idea for aenesthesia.

Really? Huh? The point is that Crawford Long didn't turn anesthseia into a "parlor game", he turned it into a medical useful procedure.

Yeah, yeah, you will say that marijuana is the "wonderweed", that will cure all the world's ills.

The evidence of the drug culture(in which marijuana is an integral part) proves otherwise, IMO.