The famous scientist Sigmund Freud also suggested in 1884 that cocaine was useful medicine for treating addiction. Later, the help of another pharmacist from Atlanta, Willis Venable, Pemberton tested and perfected the drink, which we call Coca Cola today. This is Coca- Cola was invented. No ...
There's even a fun theory that agriculture was "invented" or rather emerged in order to make beer. Come the Bronze Age, the Sumerians of southern Mesopotamia grew poppy for culinary and medicinal purposes 5,000 years ago. The E...
In 2001 traces of cocaine and marijuana were discovered in early 17th-century clay tobacco pipes found near Shakespeare’s home and within his own garden. Although there is no proof that they belonged to him, they suggest the culture of drug use within his hometown, which he would ha...
Kidd sold crack cocaine in his youth to get by, but doesn’t elaborate much on the subject. He’s 35 now, so you can guess that he was probably slinging rocks around the same time UGK’s “Hard to Swallow” dropped in 1992, which is pretty much an instructional guide on the masterfu...
But…the trade in Opium with China and others came to end and the boom in Snake Oil medicines in America was the result of the Turkish Opium being sent to the United States instead of to the Asian markets. Patent medicines would carry large doses of Opium, Cocaine and Marijuana well into...
Then there's a claim that two computers invented a new language and started talking to each other. It's nonsense. Computers have been doing that since modem noise was invented. I often criticize the new use of the term ‘AI’ to describe anything done by a computer, but as the humans ...
Much of the history written about this iconic American brand focuses on the fact that, in its early years, it contained cocaine. For the record, it wouldn't be until 34 years after the birth of Coca-Cola that the drug was first made illegal. For more fun trivia stories, please sign ...
the highest grade in the class. Two months ago he had been offered cocaine at a law school party. He said no and left when everyone began snorting. He drank an occasional beer, but drinking was expensive and he had no money. He owed close to $ 23 000 in student loans. He was ...
He was arrested shortly after the study ended, when police, called to his home on a domestic violence complaint, found him with a bag of cocaine and waving a loaded gun at imaginary people. The study was so riddled with fraud and error that FDA reviewers decided it was useless. C...
Competitors can still cheat — by puffing or fabricating their alleged achievements, plagiarizing, bribing judges, using banned performance-enhancing substances (say, cocaine for LSATs). And if such cheating is widespread, or believed by the competitors to be widespread, it is especially problematic ...