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Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine

 

Drugs such as cocaine and heroin aren’t just glamorous because they’re illegal. Even when you could buy them at any pharmacy or grocery store, they still had a certain cool factor. Just look at these fantastic vintage advertisements for opium, coca-laced wine and “medicinal tonics.”

Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
This stuff was compounded by Mrs. Charlotte N. Winslow and first marketed by her son-in-law Jeremiah Curtis and Benjamin A. Perkins in Bangor, Maine in 1849. It contained 65 mg morphine sulphate per fluid ounce (0.03 l), sodium carbonate, spritis foeniculi and aqua ammonia.
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
It was “likely to soothe any human or animal”, and often used on restless or teething small children.
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine

Cocaine Toothache Drops (1885)

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
(via inesacipa)

Bayer’s Heroin

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
Two decades after heroin’s invention in 1874 by C. R. Alder Wright, a chemist (Felix Hoffman) of the German pharmaceutical company Bayer re-synthesized heroin while he was trying to produce codeine.
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
The company decided to market the drug as a morphine substitute and cough suppressant between 1898 and 1910. It turned out that heroin was highly addictive, and four times stronger than morphine. The number of addicts grew out of control, and Bayer ceased production of the “medicine” in 1913.
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine

Coca-Cola

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
Originally intended as a patent medicine when it was invented in 1886 by John Pemberton. He used five ounces of coca leaf (141.7 g) per gallon of syrup in the first five years, but the comapny was bought by businessman Asa Griggs Candler in 1891, who claimed his formula contained only 0.5 ounces. (14.2 g)
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
Over the next twelve years, Coca-Cola contained an estimated 9 milligrams of cocaine per glass. After 1904, the company started using leftovers of the cocaine-extraction process, instead of fresh leaves.

Allen’s Cocaine Tablets

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine

Forced March cocaine tablets (1897-1924)

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
Ernest Shackleton took this stuff to Antarctica in 1909, as did Captain Scott in 1910, but it was used in World War I, too.

Heroin hydroclor

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
(via Chaseuserver and Opioids)

Indian and American Cannabis by Parke, Davis & Co.

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
(via Rylkov-Fond and Herb Museum)

Heroin hydrochloride by Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
(via Herb Museum)

Allenbury’s Throat Pastilles

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
“Containing menthol, cocaine, red gum, eucalyptus, guaiacum, rhatany, potash, borax, formaldehyde and cinnamon oil” – according to the Herb Museum, Vancouver.
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
(via eBayHerb Museum and Riffle)

Ferratin and Lactophenin, by C. F. Boehringer & Soehne

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
One of the best sedatives around the turn of the century was a special mix of cocaine and quinine laced with iron.
(via Herb Museum)

Vin Mariani, the Bordeaux wine with coca leaves

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
Litography by Jules Chéret, 1894
This patent medicine was created by a French chemist, Angelo Mariani in 1863.
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
The ethanol in the wine extracted the cocaine from the coca leave, altering the drink’s effect. The Vin Mariani contained 6 mg of cocaine per fluid ounce, (0.028 l) but the exported drink contained 7.2 mg per ounce to compete with the similar drinks in the United States.
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
Some famous people and royalties liked the Mariani wine, Queen Victoria, Pope Leo XIII, Pope Saint Pius X, Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, Emile Zola, Thomas Edison and Ulysses S. Grant, among others.
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine

Theodore Metcalf’s Coca Wine

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine

Vin Des Incas poster by Alphonse Mucha

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine

Glyckeron Glyco-Heroin (-Smith)

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
For the treatment of coughs, bronchitis, phthisis, asthma, laryngitis, pneumonia and whooping cough.

Cocaine and chlorate pills to cure sore mouth, throats and lungs by Diego Gibson

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine

Stickney and Poor’s paregoric

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
A mixture of opium and alcohol helped infants and little children to fall asleep.

Ascatco

Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
“Treatment for asthma, bronchitis, hay fever, rose fever and other diseases of the respiratory organs.” The Ascatco contains 13% alcohol, opium and arsenious acid.
Gorgeous Vintage Advertisements for Heroin, Cannabis and Cocaine
(via eBay)

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