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Sunday, August 28, 2016

DRUG use . . . in other times

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


A cartoon illustration of laughing gas, or nitrous oxide
from an 1861 comedy magazine ... "laughing gas"
(nitrous oxide),  was used recreationally from 1799 on
   
     
an Adelaide Hanscom 1905 pictorialism photograph
hippies have always been with us ... an Adelaide Hanscom photograph,  1905

     
Skip Williamson drug trip cartoon with Snappy Sammy Smoot
Skip Williamson's cartoon character tries LSD

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

     
1918 mescaline description
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
1909 Hungary opium art

     
a Richard Estes painting, drug store
a pharmacy     a Richard Estes painting     see full size

    
An illustration of 1890 opium paraphernalia: a lamp and a pipe
1890 opium paraphernalia: a lamp and a pipe       see full size
   
 
Illustration of a 1898 opium den client
  an inexpensive 1898 opium den, with a client       see full size



An interior photograph of a pleasure-boat opium room, 1920s?
in contrast, a pleasure-boat opium room (date unknown)       see full size


Elihu Vedder art, poison in a glass
alcohol is a drug too ... Elihu Vedder art



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

    

Lazy Looey, from a 1945 kids comic book
"Lazy Looey - Sleeping Pills"     from a 1945 kids comic book       see full size
  
  
1932 New York drug abuse
1932 New York drug abuse



A 1940s photograph of a forgotten cigarette
1940s


1940s graphic, I Like It, It Likes Me
"I like it, it likes me"     euphoria       see full size



John Wayne Marijuana poster
alcohol against marijuana
  


Robert Crumb El Perfecto acid trip
LSD ... a Robert Crumb comic



A Willy Murphy comic, Thrilling Episodes of Sudden Illumination, LSD comic
  a Willy Murphy comic, 1973?



An Emanuel Schongut paperback book illustration, 1970s
an Emanuel Schongut paperback book illustration 1970s 
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A Rod Filbrandt cartoon
"I'm an artist - I can do whatever I want" (eating heroin)
a Rod Filbrandt cartoon



Rod Filbrandt, Paging Dr. Junky cartoon
Rod Filbrandt



Rod Filbrandt, Paging Dr. Junky cartoon
 Rod Filbrandt
       
     
     
A Winsor Mccay cartoon about drug addiction
"Drug Habit"    a Winsor McCay cartoon
       
     
     
a 1947 opium pipe, color photograph
a 1947 opium pipe
       see full size
       
     
     
a A Yan Dargent illustration of hallucinegenic drug use 1878
a Yan Dargent illustration, 1878