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sarge43

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19. She didn't have to.

Reply to kelliekat44 (Reply #15)

Sun Mar 30, 2014, 09:20 PM

Mar 2014

She took laudanum, ticture of opium. During the 18th and 19th centuries, it was as common and widely used as aspirin and it was cheaper than gin or whisky. Mary Lincoln was addicted to it.

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Queen Victoria was a pothead! [View all] CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2014 OP

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I was amazed also! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2014 #2

CP there's a show at the Getty about the Queen flamingdem Mar 2014 #9

Given how stern she looks in her pictures (and I know that's how it was done then) dflprincess Mar 2014 #26

We've been denied this incredibly useful plant Warpy Mar 2014 #3

yes we have! wildbilln864 Mar 2014 #22

Great article, CalPeg Tsiyu Mar 2014 #4

I regularly enjoy the articles in this particular periodical... CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2014 #5

I have it bookmarked Tsiyu Mar 2014 #7

Long known. Heard about it in the early seventies. Half-Century Man Mar 2014 #6

My Dear Peggy... Thank You For That !!! WillyT Mar 2014 #8

Odd, then, that she was not more amused. Warren DeMontague Mar 2014 #10

*snarf* nt eppur_se_muova Mar 2014 #33

so did Elizabeth I NMDemDist2 Mar 2014 #11

And most likely George Washington Warpy Mar 2014 #12

And Louisa May Alcott LeftishBrit Mar 2014 #21

I used it for for all sorts of "difficulties/discomfort," menstrual, hormonal, social, societial, japple Mar 2014 #13

Thanks for the link malaise Mar 2014 #14

I thought she snorted cocaine? nt kelliekat44 Mar 2014 #15

She didn't have to. sarge43 Mar 2014 #19

She may have "sniffed" a little ... JustABozoOnThisBus Apr 2014 #41

Robert Hooke - 1689 - Royal Society Meeting RainDog Mar 2014 #16

You would HAVE to be to do this to a door.... Spitfire of ATJ Mar 2014 #17

I use it for purely cosmetic reasons. It takes the warts off other peoples faces. marble falls Mar 2014 #18

Excellent! mountain grammy Mar 2014 #23

Okay, Now I'm going to have visions of Vicky and John Brown... malthaussen Mar 2014 #20

Indigenous people have taught it's a painkiller (for giving birth/broken bones) not recreational n/t UTUSN Mar 2014 #24

back in the early 1970s at college... nikto Mar 2014 #25

I never heard that. But I lived a very sheltered life until I found DU! n/t CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2014 #27

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Her Majesty's Marihuana Blue Owl Mar 2014 #28

The Royal Rush... nikto Apr 2014 #36

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I know that from listening to Iron maiden mwrguy Mar 2014 #31

How cool! CaliforniaPeggy Mar 2014 #32

Sounds like you've been listening to censored Jazz ( : Sentath Mar 2014 #34

She would have likely liked ... 1000words Apr 2014 #37

Come to think of it... Warren DeMontague Apr 2014 #38

Doesn't she though! CaliforniaPeggy Apr 2014 #39

LMAO 1000words Apr 2014 #40