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		lazide on Oct 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: On 17th century "cocaine" Is it not still the same? We won’t talk about crack, of course

SoftTalker on Oct 10, 2024 [–]

Probably pretty hard to get "chemically clean" cocaine if you don't have a pharmaceutical source.

lazide on Oct 11, 2024 | [–]

I’m not sure Victorian England pharmaceutical grade cocaine would actually be much cleaner, but yeah.

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