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Friday, December 26, 2008

The Five Greatest Things Ever Conceived Under the Influence of Drugs


This post references an interesting web site. For example, did you know...

John Pemberton, the Atlanta pharmacist that invented Coca Cola, claimed that the ingredient it was named after, the Coca leaf, cured everything from depression and nervousness to morphine addiction. If those purported effects sound familiar, congratulations, you could beat a chimpanzee in a game of memory. Coca is the leaf that produces cocaine, and like Freud, John Pemberton was incredibly enthusiastic about its "health benefits."

And there's a whole lot more about "Coke" and 4 other things on this site.

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