DRUG use . . . in other times

 

  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

   

     

hippies have always been with us ... an Adelaide Hanscom photograph,  1905

     

Skip Williamson's cartoon character tries LSD

     

an 1881 warning about hashish   "Wasting of the muscles, sallowness of the skin ... idiotic offspring"

     

an 1918 description of a mescaline trip experience   "On the left wall was pinned by the tail a brown worm of perhaps a hundred feet long"

     

1909 Hungary opium art

     

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

"Drunk or sober go to bed Tom"   an 1825 children's schoolbook about war and alcoholism   

    

"Lazy Looey - Sleeping Pills"     from a 1945 kids comic book       see full size

  

  

1932 New York drug abuse

1940s

"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

       

     

     

a 1947 opium pipe       see full size

       

     

     

a Yan Dargent illustration, 1878