Month: December 2019

TOBACCO ON NEW SCENE

Posted on December 30, 2019

While the “Yatrochemists” Paracelsus “religions” promoted the use of opium in Europe, the exotic newcomer slowly made his way onto the European scene. Tobacco was

TABAK SHAMAN

Posted on December 26, 2019

By the time of contact with Europe, tobacco smoking was widespread in North America. Although the habit of consuming hallucinogenic, DMT-containing snuffs also prevailed in the

TOBACCO CELEBRATES

Posted on December 18, 2019

In a commercial sense, tobacco did not reach its heights until the end of the Thirty Years War (1618–1648). By that time, American colonies already existed

DRIVE WAR

Posted on December 14, 2019

It was the prohibition of tobacco smoking in China, the last emperor of the Ming dynasty (1628–1644) that led upset tobacco followers to experiment with

SYNTHETIC MEANS

Posted on December 2, 2019

Morphine was isolated in 1805 by the young German chemist Friedrich Serturner. For Serturnera, morphine was the purest essence of a poppy plant. He gave