: About Me

It might be a good thing if the US were to go back to the good old days of PTSD for the survivors of the Civil War when men and women could easily get tincture of opium either to kill the pain of old wounds or depression, or what-had-they. These nostrums were readily available from pharmacists or traveling "medicine men." (Find the book Chemical Muse to catch up on your popular drug culture history.) It's amazing how far we've come from "You're an adult-you control your own skin-sack and what you put in it, as per the Ninth Amendment" to "Except for my single-malt Scotch, all drugs are bad...