Back in the day, people used to purchase illicit substances at their local drug stores like it was NBD. How, you ask? Because back then, it wasn’t uncommon to find ingredients like “morphine” — a.k.a. heroin’s slightly classier cousin — in the products one would find in the cough and cold aisle. Take One Night Cough Syrup, for example: it contains active ingredients like alcohol, “cannabis indica, F.E.,” chloroform, and “morphia, sulph.”
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