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Cocaine - A Natural Scourge

25 Mar 2021

While walking around the exhibit hall at an agricultural conference a few years ago, when we could still travel, I perused the usual displays of farming equipment and industry booths promoting...

Caffeine is considered a hard drug and cannabis a soft one?

29 Nov 2017

If you ask almost anyone if they know what a hard聽drug聽is, they鈥檒l nod enthusiastically. Ask them to define a聽hard vs a soft聽drug聽however and the nodding might stop.

What natural substance was the first local anesthetic to be introduced into medicine?

20 Mar 2017

Cocaine. Credit for the discovery of cocaine as a local anesthetic is usually attributed to Dr. Carl Koller, an Austrian opthamologist who in 1884 demonstrated that dropping a solution of cocaine...

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