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To: jmacusa

“Cocaine was well established in Europe for sometime prior to WW2.”

Well established inside FDRs nose too. He was snorting it for a sinus condition.


26 posted on 07/05/2014 4:53:37 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only? 1 Cor. 13, V.36)
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To: Graybeard58

Well before WWII

By the late Victorian era cocaine use had appeared as a vice in literature. For example, it was injected by Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional Sherlock Holmes, generally to offset the boredom he felt when he was not working on a case.


28 posted on 07/05/2014 4:59:50 PM PDT by morphing libertarian ( On to impeachment and removal (IRS, Taliban, Fast and furious, VA, Benghazi)!!!)
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To: Graybeard58

Never knew that. Got a source on that?


36 posted on 07/05/2014 7:47:41 PM PDT by jmacusa
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