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Yeah but if they'd been smoking weed they would have said yeah whatever - I'll have a look at it tomorrow, when Franz Ferdinand got assassinated.

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Even if the ruling class was high off their tits on whatever substance probably had little to do with anything. Most likely the drug that had the most influence was, and still is, the lust for power.

Something similar happened during WW2 I guess

cf. Amphetamine use/distribution in World War II[0][1][2]

[0] https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/preview-world-war-speed/433...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_culture_of_substit...

[2] https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1127...

Not sure how accurate this is but there’s a book on how Adolf/Nazi’s were experimenting with hard drugs at that time.

https://www.amazon.ca/Blitzed-Norman-Whiteside-Shaun-Ohler/d...

They say Hitler was very charismatic, inspiring and a great public speaker. I seriously wonder how much drugs he was on at the time and how much that boosted and projected his own confidence (and then subsequently inspired all of his fellow countrymen Germans)?

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