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laudanum

  • 07-10-2016 2:29pm
    #1
    Seanachai
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    Does anybody know if laudanum was widely used among working class people in Ireland when it was legal?


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  • #2
    The_Valeyard
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    Seanachai wrote: »
    Does anybody know if laudanum was widely used among working class people in Ireland when it was legal?

    Possibly in the 19th century with the whole opium thing.


  • #3
    brevity
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    Wasn't it used with Absinthe back in the day?


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    Ted111
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    I sometimes have a dash of lime in my pint of budweiser.


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    SEPT 23 1989
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    Opium dens would provide a welcome alternative to the pub and club scene


  • #6
    The_Valeyard
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    Ted111 wrote: »
    I sometimes have a dash of lime in my pint of budweiser.

    Leave this place and never come back.


    Drinking Budweiser...
    Have you no sense of decency, sir???


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  • #7
    Seanachai
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    brevity wrote: »
    Wasn't it used with Absinthe back in the day?

    "Last night as I lay dreaming
    My way across the sea
    James Mangan brought me comfort
    With laudnum and poitin"


  • #8
    Seanachai
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    SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »
    Opium dens would provide a welcome alternative to the pub and club scene

    I've never indulged, I don't think it's a very sociable substance though. Would probably cut down on public disorder, until the users ran out of money that is.


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    super_furry
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    Scottish teenage Werewovles are very partial to the stuff, or so I hear.


  • #10
    Seanachai
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    super_furry wrote: »
    Scottish teenage Werewovles are very partial to the stuff, or so I hear.

    If it calms them down and stops them from going through my bins it's fine with me


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    It was part of common cough remedies in the 19th century but working class Irish wouldn't have had ready access to it back then. It was more a drug of the upper classes, both as a prescribed medicine and un-prescribed.


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