Victorian-Era Drug Culture Was Wild, Man

When most people think of the Victorian Era, they tend to assume everything was squeaky clean. They assume people were all prim and proper, that sobriety was a thing, and that people just died from disease and poisons they used every day.

Most of this is a fairly correct assumption, minus the drug use. Prior to 1914, cocaine and many other drugs were perfectly legal. In fact, they were often used as over-the-counter remedies for everything from sore throats to weight loss.

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