What's the funniest thing about the american drug laws is this. They started as a way to keep the chinese immigrants back in the old west in their place. The first laws specifically prohibited chinese from smoking opium. Meanwhile your western european descended women, who could not drink, were smoking it, taking it in liquid form and other things, without any law about it at all.
It just sort of went downhill from there. Oh, and heroin was originally made as a cough remedy.
Yup, it was usually called Laudamate if I remember correctly.
Going to a pharmacy school helps with my drug knowledge It was alcohol mixed with opium. It was also seen as more diginified and attractive way of drinking alcohol for the gentleman and womanly types. Soggy, shouldnt you not be smoking because of your recent surgery hmm?