83 Years Ago
By Jove! there's dope
in my snuff
LONDON
— A physician
was called in to investigate two young women who were
acting queerly after "snuffing" some tobacco. A laboratory
analysis of the substance revealed the source of their
strange behaviour: hashish. Their tobacco pouch was adulterated
with 0.65% Cannabis indica. The British Medical
Journal, in a report on the incident, noted that even
such a minute quantity of hashish could prove "exceedingly
harmful." Most troubling of all, the affected tobacco
was a very popular low-cost brand and no one's certain
how many other pouches were contaminated. Source: The
Times of London 24 September, 1923
21
Years Ago
Crack: the "new, improved"
cocaine
NEW
YORK — A new, highly refined form of
cocaine — dubbed "crack" — is available in
New York; public health officials warn that this extremely
addictive drug could trigger a public health crisis.
"It's a new, improved product," said Dr Arnold Washton,
head of addiction research and treatment at Manhattan's
Regent Hospital. "No mess, no bother, and no delay."
He warns that crack is as addictive as freebase cocaine
— users just can't stop until all their money's
gone — but it's typically a fraction of the price.
Dr Washton saw his first crack-addicted patients, two
17-year-olds, early this year (1985). Source: The New
York Times 29 November, 1985
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