Exhibition in London about Drug use through the decades..

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http://www.culture24.org.uk/science+%26+nature/medicine/art312628

With the illicit drug trade estimated by the UN at $320 billion (£200bn) a year and new drugs constantly appearing on the streets and the internet, it can seem as if we are in the grip of an unprecedented level of addiction. Yet the use of psychoactive drugs is nothing new, and indeed our most familiar ones - alcohol, coffee and tobacco - have all been illegal in the past.

From ancient Egyptian poppy tinctures to Victorian cocaine eye drops, Native American peyote rites to the salons of the French Romantics, mind-altering drugs have a rich history. 'High Society' will explore the paths by which these drugs were first discovered - from apothecaries' workshops to state-of-the-art laboratories - and how they came to be simultaneously fetishised and demonised in today's culture.

For more information go to http://www.wellcomecollection.org/highsociety

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfoRYsYK0g4

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If only your average man on the street was educated by this exhibition. Cameron, Clegg & all their prohabitionist colleagues could learn a thing or two about substance use & the pityfull success that prohabition of any substance has ever been in the history of mankind. Designer drugs that haven't been researched properly, available to buy legally on the net. On the other hand drugs that have been around for thousands of years with no record of overdose are illeagal. It seems so obvious that their laws are a joke, why can't they see it ? You would have thought that the £s involved in the drug trade would at least interest these capitalist arseholes.