A Victorian medicinal heroin hydrochlor jar, manufactured by BayerPhotograph: Wellcome ImagesA painting depicts two wealthy Chinese opium smokersPhotograph: Wellcome ImagesA busy stacking room scene in an opium factoryPhotograph: Wellcome Images
An advertisement for Hall's Coca WinePhotograph: Wellcome ImagesA Victorian medicinal Indian cannabis manufactured by Parke, Davis and Co of Detroit, USPhotograph: Wellcome ImagesAn opium den in San FranciscoPhotograph: Wellcome ImagesA poster printed during the prohibition era in the US between 1920 and 1933Photograph: Wellcome ImagesA US poster shows a woman preaching for prohibition Photograph: Wellcome ImagesA poster tells how prohibition reduced organised crimePhotograph: Wellcome ImagesA drawing shows the effects of opiumPhotograph: Wellcome ImagesAn illustration of opium productionPhotograph: Wellcome ImagesAn advertisement for an 'economical family size' bottle of GuinnessPhotograph: Wellcome ImagesSpecies of fungi, some hallucinogenicPhotograph: Wellcome Images
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