How did our ancestors get properly gone on the weekends?
We know they did, throughout history and earlier.

from an 1861 comedy magazine ... "laughing gas"
(nitrous oxide), was used recreationally from 1799 on





a pharmacy a Richard Estes painting see full size
1890 opium paraphernalia: a lamp and a pipe see full size
an inexpensive 1898 opium den, with a client see full size
in contrast, a pleasure-boat opium room (date unknown) see full size

alcohol is a drug too ... Elihu Vedder art
"Lazy Looey - Sleeping Pills" from a 1945 kids comic book see full size


"I like it, it likes me" euphoria see full size

alcohol against marijuana

LSD ... a Robert Crumb comic

a Willy Murphy comic, 1973?
an Emanuel Schongut paperback book illustration 1970s
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"I'm an artist - I can do whatever I want" (eating heroin)
a Rod Filbrandt cartoon
Rod Filbrandt
Rod Filbrandt

"Drug Habit" a Winsor McCay cartoon