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I found a "Backwoods Surgery and Medicine" book from 1910 at my grandparent's house. Half of the pain-related guidance involved cocaine in some form.

If people didn't enjoy it so much, it would probably be an impressively flexible medication.

If we ever legalized it it would probably replace or augment caffeine in just about everything overnight.

But aren’t there probably long term harmful consequences of cocaine even in small doses?

Pure cocaine? Maybe? But many people do smaller amounts for years and we don’t know about it.

What I‘ve always wondered what drugs is it that burn people out in that recognizable way. And what ones are fairly recoverable.

indiginous people have been consuming coca leaves with no bad effects for thousands of years. the dose makes the poison.

by comparison, if you snorted pure caffine powder. you'd literally die