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465: No Such Thing As An Itching Powder Guild

No Such Thing As A Fish

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The Nutmeg Monopoly

The Spice Nutmeg was controlled by the Dutch for a classic decades. They had almost all the Nutmeg and clothes on the planet. And they richly burned all their excess Nutmeg every year. The markup was about 60,000% between source and street value. This is before everyone knew it was bloody poisonous. So you shouldn't know DMA? Isn't it?

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