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The Ridiculous History of "Snake Oil"

Ridiculous History

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The History of Cocaine

The law required not a full ingredient list at first it just said hey if you have the following things in your product you have to put it on the label what kind of substances alcohol morphine opium cocaine heroin something called ukane which i wasn't familiar with chloroform cannabis or acetanilide or chlorohydrate. They were basically saying if people are giving their children opium or laudanum they should know and I feel like that's very reasonable.

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