Ten Startling Facts About the History of Cocaine
Keri Blakinger
August 18, 2014
“I can’t feel my face. I mean, I can touch it but I can’t feel it inside.”
That’s one of the most famous—and funniest—quotes from the 2001 Johnny Depp film Blow, about the US cocaine mega-smuggler George Jung. Although coke’s anesthetic properties are now well documented—and have long been known to dentists—they weren’t known for the first couple of decades after the drugs’s discovery in 1860. And that’s just one of the many ways our understanding of, and attitudes toward, coca and cocaine have evolved over the years. Cocaine has had a fascinating if fraught history—including the 10 following little-known facts.
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Keri Blakinger
August 18, 2014
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“I can’t feel my face. I mean, I can touch it but I can’t feel it inside.”
That’s one of the most famous—and funniest—quotes from the 2001 Johnny Depp film Blow, about the US cocaine mega-smuggler George Jung. Although coke’s anesthetic properties are now well documented—and have long been known to dentists—they weren’t known for the first couple of decades after the drugs’s discovery in 1860. And that’s just one of the many ways our understanding of, and attitudes toward, coca and cocaine have evolved over the years. Cocaine has had a fascinating if fraught history—including the 10 following little-known facts.
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