Tag Archives: opium

To Smoke Opium is to get out of the Train (while it is still moving)

Posted on 14 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Apothecary, Druggist & Drugstore, Ephemera, History, Medicines & Cures, Snuff | Tagged Chinatown, Chinese, Dr. Munn, Jean Cocteau, McCormick & Co, New York, opium, San Francisco, Snuff | Leave a comment

Heroin – Purest and Best

Posted on 12 February 2013 by Ferdinand Meyer V

H E R O I N “In the City Market is the Meet Café. Followers of obsolete, unthinkable trades doodling in Etruscan, addicts of drugs not yet synthesized, pushers of souped-up harmine, junk reduced to pure habit offering precarious vegetable … Continue reading →