DO NOT DISTURB - 2022 film

366 Weird Movies may earn commissions from purchases made through product links.DIRECTED BY: John AinslieFEATURING: Kimberly LaFerrière, Rogan ChristopherPLOT: Their relationship on the verge of collapse, Chloë and Jack honeymoon in Miami—and ingest a lot of peyote in their hotel room.COMMENTS: John Ainslie’s evidences certainty as a director in how he orchestrates his main characters’ indecision so convincingly. At one moment—well, at plenty of moments—the audience really, really dislikes Ja...

Hidden Meanings in the drug culture

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The Drugs Used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans

Many of us living in the parts of the world where marijuana has recently been legalized may regard ourselves as partaking of a highly modern pleasure. And given the ever-increasing sophistication of the growing and processing techniques that underlie what has become a formidable cannabis industry, perhaps, on some level, we are. But as intellectually avid enthusiasts of psychoactive substances won’t hesitate to tell you, their use stretches farther back in time than history itself. "For as lo...

The true story behind the drugs used in ‘Easy Rider’

American actor and filmmaker Dennis Hopper is often remembered as ‘Hollywood’s Original Hell-Raiser’, a countercultural symbol of the 1960s and the ’70s. Hopper’s 1969 magnum opus Easy Rider crystallised his image in the public consciousness as the rebellious artist who had no patience for society’s restrictive norms and obsolete guidelines for morality. The film perfectly captured the social landscape of America at the time by contextualising the abstractions of the hippie movement and prese...

Smoking Banana Peels to Get High Was Briefly a Thing

In the 1960s, many authors, publishers, and readers of underground papers understood them as alternatives to what they considered mainstream news sources, or the "aboveground press": network television news, daily newspapers, national magazines. The dailies covered the war in Vietnam, racism, and youthful unrest, but with certain assumptions, especially that violent protest was never justifiable but the Vietnam War was. (This would change somewhat after 1968.) At the same time, these outlets ...

Wolf's Den

...for beneath the great stones, deep in the womb of the Great Mother, in her singing waters, sighing winds, and fiery eruptions; and high above the far places of the sky, in every star and planet, in the swirling mists of the great nebulas, in the tails of the comets, in the silent Heart of God, you will find the answer to that which you seek, and discover, that from the beginning of time, you knew it inside you already. Wolf, 1998 ...

A stimulating account of Tea from the point of view of a British author

A History of Anesthesia

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Anesthesia and Queen Victoria

Anesthesia and Queen VictoriaHow did the son of a laborer from York end up as a physician in London among the most prominent members of British society, and be asked to administer chloroform on two occasions to Queen Victoria? The answer appears here. REMARKABLE JOURNEY Following his working-class start in life, John Snow toiled long and hard to become a physician. Early during his illustrious career he developed a lasting interest in anesthetic agents. ...

The Key which opens the mystery of this Grand Elixir

The Key which opens the mystery of this Grand Elixir The Key which opens the mystery of this Grand Elixir From William Salmon, Medicina practica, or, Practical physick shewing the method of curing the most usual diseases happening to humane bodies ... : to which is added, the philosophick works of Hermes Trismegistus, Kalid Persicus, Geber Arabs, Artesius Longævus, Nicholas Flammel, Roger Bachon and George Ripley : all translated out of the best Latin editions into English ... : together...

137 My My My

Lit by a midnight sun a tale of doomed lesbian romance cryptography morphine addiction suicide and more

Opium, Etymology, Storytelling and Heroism

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Opium War - China