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1. Posted by Charles Schmitter on 12/6/09

   Miles’ Nervine contained Bromide as the sedating agent

2. Posted by Cuyler Brooks on 12/6/09

   Wonderful collection. I remember when toothpaste contained chloroform (it was there for the “tingle”) and worse was in lead tubes.

   Some of these products seem to contain very small amounts of what are now thought to be dangerous drugs – I doubt anyone was harmed by 4 minims of chloroform. Current NyQuil has 10% alcohol and a Hydro-Bromide – never did me any harm. I felt much worse from one Elavil=amytriptyline; and 1 “Norco” that a dentist gave me created the sensation of my scalp being stabbed with knitting needles.

3. Posted by Chris Gardiner on 13/6/09

   My mother had a beer recipe book that required a wad of asbestos wool to filter the beer.
   Around 1960
   I am still alive!

4. Posted by zashi on 13/6/09

   @Chris Gardiner
   You didn’t drink beer then smartypants… or you are totally photoshoped :))

5. Posted by johannes on 13/6/09

   vibrators originally were a medical treatment against “hysteria”..!

6. Posted by Warren Goff on 13/6/09

   Those “cigarettes” were atropine and not tobacco. They work the same way that present day asthma inhalers like Atrovent, work.

7. Posted by Ann Ferguson on 13/6/09

   Hey, I think most of these old meds are probably safer for you than the industrial pollution, emissions from nuclear plants and pesticides sprayed on most of our veggies sold at supermarkets these days!

8. Posted by Mia on 14/6/09

   Since “Dr. Ham’s Aromatic Invigorator” is advertised as a cure for delirium tremens (symptoms of withdrawal from alcohol) and “intemperance” (which I take to mean an inability to abstain from drinking alcohol, I would guess that the primary ingredient of Dr. Ham’s Invigorator was, in fact, alcohol!

   The pain extractor and pain annihilator (wonderful terminology) probably contained some kind of opiate — maybe laudanum, which is an alcohol tincture of opium. It certainly would relieve pain, for a time albeit not, alas, permanently.

9. Posted by Ed Burgstahler on 14/6/09

   The goverment should legalize all drugs but it won’t happen because it would hurt their corner of the economy. It would be safer, controlled, taxed and some of the inocent people being used and killed would be lessened.

10. Posted by nate on 14/6/09

    no wonder the elderly don’t remember having aches and pains, hell I’m surprised they can remember their own names

11. Posted by andrei on 14/6/09

    This is not a right time for legalization of the illegal. There’s nothing that can be done once you or me or someone [anybody, at the beginning of time] realizes that something does something [from purely aesthetic value to pain relief and even spiritual experiences] to one who looks at it, touches it, smells it, ingests it or smokes it or even shoots it [well this part i usually omit in my speach]. The next step is they come up with a name. Usually it’s something easy to remember because you’re stoned or high or psy. Then they share it with their friends, share opinions etc etc [eventually build up entire cultures supporting it]. Then, someone else fins it too and has a different opinnion and it’s all gone to hell, because what they think of it and then subsequently tell other people about it will probably influence your actions/routines/habits/religion maybe? Then why the fuck realize in the first place?

12. Posted by Scott Gallagher on 14/6/09

    wow, amazing. I bet it’s true that the chemicals we use on our food now, not like back then, is equally, or more harmful that these products for medicinal use.

13. Posted by Gustavo on 15/6/09

    Very good, a blog from the pharmaceutical point of view. I am Gustavo from Brazil, and I will add you to the links on my blog.

14. Posted by -rage on 15/6/09

    I was born during the wrong era!

15. Posted by Edos on 15/6/09

    Damm right ^^

16. Posted by djinni on 16/6/09

    I remember a stomach ache remedy we drank as kids, chemodene or something, used to contains small amount of opiates. Really took any kind of stomach cramp away!

17. Posted by linda on 17/6/09

    I remember when…but those days were before my time.

18. Posted by Cephalopod on 19/6/09

    I’ll take them all!
    Simultaneously!!!

19. Posted by Marjorie on 19/6/09

    I agree that drugs should be legalized. Look at the Netherlands, most drugs there are legal and controlled. There are fewer junkies and actually less substance use in general. The junkies that are there go to doctors who give them sanitary injections of their drugs. This means that they aren’t on the street and are not spreading blood diseases. It also cuts down on the amount of drugs they can take. All in all it is a very good system, but most likely will never be implemented in the United States.

20. Posted by Tiggy on 19/6/09

    It’s true, Coca-Cola doesn’t taste like it used to. Maybe Coke should bring back a limited edition centenary drink?

21. Posted by rob on 19/6/09

    Yes, we ingest a lot chemicals in our food… but at least we don’t die from smallpox.

22. Posted by Goochie on 19/6/09

    After having worked for The Coca-Cola Co. for 25 years, I can assure you that it NEVER started out “as a ‘coca wine’(see above) mix of wine and cocaine.” Dr. John Pemberton, an Atlanta, GA pharmacist, developed Coca-Cola syrup in 1886, in a 3-legged brass kettle in his backyard. The name of the syrup – of which the two main ingredients were the coca leaf and the cola nut – was suggested by his bookkeeper, Frank Robinson, the man whose penmanship was so fine that he scripted what is now the most recognized logo in the world. Mixed at a ratio of 1 ounce of syrup to 5 ounces of seltzer water (the same ratio used today), the soft drink was first sold to the public at the soda fountain in Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta on May 8, 1886. A careful look at the first poster for Coca-Cola above will show that the advertisement suggests that one go the nearest fountain (as in “soda” fountain…not a bar!)for the refreshing beverage.

23. Posted by Jason on 19/6/09

    Twenty years from now Amalgam fillings and thymersol will be on a web site / listing like this.

24. Posted by John on 20/6/09

    I’ve heard it said, that the above advertised, Pantopon Roche Injectable Opium…

    Made men wear their hats at jaunty angles

25. Posted by anon on 20/6/09

    Interesting ads and history all the way around. I can’t help but notice that back in those days, someone with an injury or illness was likely to obtain access to better pain control methods than they can today. That probably cut down on disability claims considerably, but I would bet that despite the easy availability of these powerful drugs addictive populations were not much greater, perhaps even less so, than they are today (anyone who has the exact sociology on this question, feel free to jump in here).

    Modern regulations governing narcotics have not stopped addicts from obtaining anything they want off the streets or from illegitimate “clinics”, whereas people who truly suffer chronic pain are commonly allowed to continue in a greater level of pain than appears likely 100 years ago (if not for much of human history). Because narcotics were poorly regulated 50+ years ago in the US, millions of chronic pain sufferers today are essentially pushed toward risky surgery and/or a decision to give up their careers and everything that constituted a “life”. This strikes me as an over-correction for the mistakes of doctors and druggists of prior generations. Isn’t it about time for the pendulum to swing back toward the middle? Here we have SSI and disability rates, workers’ compensation — skyrocketing costs associated with people who are disabled by unrelenting pain conditions. Animals in laboratory settings receive more humane pain control treatments under most circumstances than do humans! This trend persists even though we know that addiction is a psychological risk factor more so than a physiological one (i.e. “addictive personality”). Doctors are trained to fear treating patients even when all objective evidence would seem to justify an approach that would enable a patient to return to a productive life. For their own reasons, doctors watch their own backs and their patients must “make do”, often transferring the resulting physical and financial burdens to family members and taxpayers alike.

    It’s time the medical community stopped demonizing pain treatments. It goes without saying that such powerful drugs should not have been in every tonic or quack cure. On the other hand, they should not be reserved only for the terminally ill, either. As a great percentage of the population ages, doctors need to be prepared to treat patients — not merely placate them with ineffective but expensive brand-name drugs that do little to improve quantitative quality of life measures.

26. Posted by anon on 20/6/09

    That comment above me? Made of win.

27. Posted by Sasha on 21/6/09

    Perhaps our descendants will look at us in the past and laugh at us. They might say we took a host of poisonous substances like alcohol, tobacco and hydrogenated fat… they’ll giggle at our hopes that cosmetics and rejuvenating products ever did work, and will speak of the inefficiency of pharmaceutics :)
    They will be laughed at too, if there’s anybody to laugh left…

28. Posted by Eli on 22/6/09

    Those folks here who advocate elimination of government control over drug marketing should recall the reasons the laws were passed in the first place. OTC sales of drugs with opium, cocaine, morphine and high alcohol content were creating a nation of addicts. When Bayer introduced Heroin, it was marketed as a non-addictive substitute for opiates. Do we really want to see parents treating their children with unregulated narcotics? Want some peace and quiet this evening? Just give the kids some morphine with their dessert, and they’ll quiet right down. Teething troubles? Nothing like a little Heroin to ease their pain. I’ll agree that the drug industry has problems of its own, but the last thing we need is unregulated commerce in addictive drugs.

29. Posted by whiskeytits on 23/6/09

    “Dr. Ham’s Aromatic Invigorator”?

    Hint: It’s bacon.

30. Posted by Not Eli on 23/6/09

    I don’t think anyone is recommending removal of control or regulation. The case is for legalization, which in theory could make narcotics safer as the source would be tested and proven also allowing for a safe method of procuring the item and adding to tax income for the government at the same time.

31. Posted by Pepper on 24/6/09

    Mabel needs Dr.Ham on the table.
    Right away, please!

32. Posted by Richard Chandler on 24/6/09

    These are cool:
    Then the FDA had to get involved and regulate everything.This world has gone to the dogs in a hand basket.

    P.S.There is no hope for America

33. Posted by Gavin Mills on 26/6/09

    ^ Awww. :< You can’t have methaqualone or butabarbital…so there is no hope for America, naturally…
    :<

    Idiot.

34. Posted by thomas on 26/6/09

    so mr. mills.. who’s the real idiot?

35. Posted by ccrow on 28/6/09

    Better watch out, it might be YOU!!!!

36. Posted by Stephanie on 28/6/09

    People become addicted to the drugs we take OTC and are prescribed to, just as they must have become addicted to these at some points. Addiction is going to happen when it comes to pharmaceuticals, or any other thing (such as sex, money, computers, etc.), and it is unavoidable that some people will take too much of some stuff and end up having it pulled off the market for that reason. I mean, there are cases of people becoming addicted to NASAL SPRAYS. Are we to pull them off the market as well?

    Because of substance abuse, it has become increasingly difficult to acquire much-needed medicines because, as has been said here, doctors need to look out for number 1, which is no longer the patient but in fact themselves. I went to my city’s ER a few months back in such severe pain all I could do was cry. I was prescribed MOTRIN (Ibuprofen) which, if you don’t know, is used OTC to treat such things as mild headaches and muscle pains. This is because in my small city, pills are bought and sold on the streets constantly. We just had 63 drug busts in the past 2 weeks. Three months later, I was diagnosed with gall stones by a different doctor, and it had gotten to the point where my liver was being blocked by the stones. They say this pain is far worse than child labor. For this, I was initially prescribed an OTC medication. Are you kidding me? What I wouldn’t have done for some good old opium at that point.

37. Posted by Sylvia on 28/6/09

    Our cough medicine still contains chloroform, and it is the most effective one I’ve had.

38. Posted by Laura Killenchen on 29/6/09

    1) Coca-Cola didn’t ever contain alcohol.
    2) “Hysteria” was believed to be caused by a wandering womb.
    3) Basically all soft drinks in the 19th-century were advertised as medicinal.

39. Posted by lvgraham on 30/6/09

    I still use a vibrator for my hysteria. it works like a charm.

40. Posted by hondo on 30/6/09

    Ivgraham,
    would you be willing to demo that?

41. Posted by Chris Hoke on 1/7/09

    Ha. “Daytime Sedation” is my new favorite phrase.

42. Posted by DogstarJ on 1/7/09

    Hondo-naughty, naughty!
    Mr. Chandler – no hope for America because you can’t get these drugs – you are an idiot! Mr. Mills is right.
    Thomas – you, too, are an idiot!
    Ivgraham – funny! Don’t bother demonstrating though.
    Stephanie – I totally agree with you 100%.

43. Posted by Andrew on 2/7/09

    You know, ever since learning about Coca Cola I’ve been wanting to taste the original version made with Coca leaves :)

44. Posted by J on 2/7/09

    Marijuana is a great medicinal plant, and therefore should be legal. The rest should stay Illegal.

45. Posted by oli on 4/7/09

    surely prohibition equates to non-regulation – LOL – the authorities have absolutely no control over what illegal drugs are taken, fair enough they have the authority to take them away from some individuals that get caught (minority being an underestimation) but essentially illegal drugs are more available for those individuals under age 16 than legal ones. maybe the term ‘controlled drugs’ should be amended to ‘uncontrolled drugs’! – for a world that largely involves major leaders being ‘control freaks’, takes the piss what we (as civilians) get away with, no?

46. Posted by ges on 4/7/09

    My late father got his pharmacy degree around 1928. He told me that he used to sell heroin, but I think a prescription was required by that time.

47. Posted by PharmApplicants on 5/7/09

    times have certainly changed.. i wonder if these even needed a prescription?

48. Posted by McCow on 5/7/09

    The politicians…….Lawyers, Judges, Cops Assistants, etc…. all make their living from peeps abusing drugs & alcohol….
    Then the paying fines
    Why would they change that?

49. Posted by Anna on 7/7/09

    Hi,
    I am really keen to find the source of many of these adverts, as they are really interesting and relevant to a television programme I am making. Does anyone know the contact details of the author? Alternatively can he/she drop me an email? I am very keen to get hold of copies of some of the adverts and it would really help to know the source.

    Thank you,

    Anna

50. Posted by JAMIE LINDSEY on 9/7/09

    I READ A STORY FROM OUR TOWNS NEWSPAPER DATED 1903. IT WAS ABOUT A PROMINANT DENTEST WHOSE WIFE HAD LEFT HIM. HE BECAME VERY DEPRESSED AND THE PAPER SAID HE USED COCAINE AND HEROIN FOR HIS DEPRESSION,BUT HIS DOWNFALL CAME WHEN GE STARTED DRINKING! IT SEEMED NO BIG DEAL ABOUT THE COCAINE AND HEROIN USE ,BUT THAT DRINKING MADE HIM COMMIT SUICIDE! IF ONLY HE HAD STUCK TO DRUGS! SURE WOULDN’T WANT HIM WORKING ON MY TEETH DURING THAT TIME UNLESS HE SHARED!

51. Posted by Fernando Comas on 11/7/09

    Congratulations
    http://pharmacoserias.blogspot.com/2009/03/drogoteca-sonfueron-productos.html

52. Posted by Ian MacLeod on 15/7/09

    My grandfather was an old moonshiner – made it and ran it. My first cough medicine was moonshine and honey (he had a bunch of beehives out back). Granny used snuff from the time she was ten, and a snuff poultice was used for bee stings and bug bites. There were a LOT of home remedies in use at the time (early to mid-fifties). In my family, at least. A friend now in her late 80’s remembers when she had asthma trouble as a child, her mother got an herbal remedy from a Native American medicine man that was a dried plant burned on a clean ashtray or tin foil that she was to inhale the smoke from. It worked, but she never knew what it was until, in the 60’s, she smelled marijuana burning for what she had thought was going to be the first time. That was her asthma medicine!

    Ian MacLeod
    Activist PRN. Nonprofit, Nonpartisan, 501©(3) Corporation.
    Progressive Political Activist.
    Veteran, Disabled, Chronic Intractable Pain Patient, 25 years
    Primum, non nocere!
    Illegitimis non carborundum!

53. Posted by Гей сайт on 19/7/09

    WHoa!
    So many things were alloewd back in the days///

54. Posted by Tonya L. Spencer on 22/7/09

    All I have to say is………..

    WOW!!!!

55. Posted by Dennis on 25/7/09

    Russian heart aid “Korvalol” still contains phenobarbital.. Mmm, yummy!!

56. Posted by klause on 25/7/09

    decriminalizing drugs wont happen until a new purpose is found for all of the government agencies presently involved in enforcing these futile drug laws…
    the immense cost of operating these organisations has consistently increased over the years and will continue to do so in spite of there seemingly impossible objectives,the drug war has become a powerful industry upon which a whole shit load of people depend on to make a living…

57. Posted by ss on 25/7/09

    decriminalizing drugs is stupid. they should be legal and regulated, as is alcohol and tobacco which are far worse.

    the tax revenue would be tremendous.

58. Posted by AlieoutofSpite on 26/7/09

    @ Ann Ferguson-
    Nuclear plants don’t have any ‘emissions’. Unless you mean the waste, which is processed into blocks of glass which provide it’s own shielding (also, the spent fuel is diluted to such low levels of radiation, you get more from your own house and the world around you) so it’s really a moot point.

59. Posted by Johnny19 on 26/7/09

    Someone above mentioned how illegal drugs are easier to get hold of than legal?

    I dunno about the US, but over here in the UK that was true for me when I was younger. I’m 19 now so I can get as much booze as I want, but back when I was 16, I remember I could get MDMA, ketamine, weed, whatever, no problem, but it was HELL getting hold of beer!

    Just food for thought.

60. Posted by n00bs on 28/7/09

    W00T my LOLZ haz a cheezburger has bean 2 PHOTOSHOPED! N00BS ROLF

61. Posted by Alex on 1/8/09

    I remember seeing an old advertisement from the 1920’s or 1930’s for a nasal spray and printed on the ad read: “New! Now With Methamphetamine”

62. Posted by Compost Bin Tumbler on 1/8/09

    Holy smokes, where… how… geez… I am just blown away!! Great post! haha

63. Posted by leo martin judice on 2/8/09

    i can imagine what went on in the early days for remedies

64. Posted by WES on 6/8/09

    AHEM, EXCUSE ME? THE “OLD DAYS”? THESE DRUGS HAVE NEVER BEEN,AND STILL AREN’T, “UNAVAILABLE”. IN FACT THEY ARE 1000%MORE POTENT NOW THEN THEY WERE THEN!!! AND THAT,T-H-A-T IS THE PROBLEM WITH DRUG ADDICTION TODAY, JUST IMAGINE WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO SAY IN 100 YEARS ABOUT “TYLENOL”, I.E. “THEY REALLY DESTROYED THIER LIVER FOR VERY MILD PAIN RELIEF” THEY ARE JUST NOW REALIZING (FROM THE PAGES OF “DUH MEDICAL NEWS”) THAT ANTI-DEPRESSANT MEDICATION REALLY HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SERATONIN LEVELS DUE TO THE “PRIMARY ACTION” OF THE DRUG, TRUTH IS THEY MAKE YOU TIRED, SO YOU SLEEP, AND THAT MY FRIENDS IS THE REASON THE SERATONIN AND NOREPH’ LEVELS IN THE BRAIN, SIMPLY BECAUSE PPL WHO ARE DEPRESSED MAY SLEEP ALL THE TIME THEY DON’T GO INTO DEEPER R.E.M. STATES AND THESE AHEM “ANTI-DEPRESSANT DRUGS,(WHICH ARE BASICALLY CHEMICAL LOBOTOMIES, NOPE… NOT FOR ME GIVE ME A JOINT ANYTIME, JUST REMEMBER THIS FOLKS, “EVERYTHING HITLER DID WAS LEGAL, EVERYTHING OUR FOUNDING FATHERS DID WAS ILLEGAL”

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66. Posted by chrisss on 17/8/09

    Just because the FDA regulates a drug does not make it safe. My mother in law has never taken an illegal drug in her life including marijuana. She had knee surgery and was prescribed Oxycontin. She is now an addict, visiting 3 different doctors so she can feed her addiction. This is a legal opiate even if she is using illegal methods(dr shopping) to obtain. Is there really enough research behind medications to determine the long term effects on the body? How many drugs approved by the FDA have been recalled in the past 20 years? Govt has a little too much control over what is legal and what is illegal/controlled. In the meantime drug companies are making billions of dollars.

67. Posted by Bob on 24/8/09

    Boogie-boogie-boogie!

68. Posted by The truth Doctor on 30/8/09

    The Drug and Alcohol latest radio ad starts with a Mother asking her som if he’s ever tried marijuana then says cocaine , heroin , speedballs , etc. What they are attempting to do is tie marijuana in with all other hard drugs . It’s another deceptive lie in an attempt to make the ignorant believe marijuana is like all other hard drugs . They do this because marijuana can be a deterrent to take prescription drugs or drinking alcohol both of which can kill you and even cause permanent harm to the human body . Marijuana DOES NONE OF THESE THINGS .

69. Posted by Spy Gear on 10/9/09

    truth in advertising

70. Posted by docohen on 8/10/09

    Anyone remember Doridens? Like Quaaludes..for the young and the restless! Also Dexamyl(combination dexedrine and barbituate) for that smooth uplifting feeling.Heroin was introduced as the “heroic” cure for morphine addiction, oh well.

71. Posted by best juicer on 16/10/09

    There are so many here that I’m not sure which one is my favorite. I love the old time art work though, and you really almost do a whole exhibit based around this.

    On second thought I think my favorite is Mrs. Winslow’s soothing syrup for teething children – yikes!!

72. Posted by Watch Gossip Girl Online on 21/10/09

    Wow I would love to have a tonic that not means I do not have to go to sleep nor eat ever again! I wonder if its addicting?

73. Posted by Amorphous JUNKe on 22/10/09

    I heard an excellent presentation about the marketing of speed-type drugs to women in the ’50s but I hadn’t seen pictures of some of the magazine ads from those times until now. Of course, speed was marketed big time to the post-war workforce of Japan also causing a significant speed problem there for many years.

    Good collection Pill Talk. Hopefully you can make it more comprehensive if you get more submissions.

74. Posted by Erika von Utter on 25/10/09

    I think drugs are bad in every single case. Honestly, drugs provide ONLY with addiction and your life will get fucked.

75. Posted by Local Internet Marketing on 5/11/09

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77. Posted by Jardenon on 22/11/09

    An that’s why the Spanish flu killed millions.

78. Posted by Gaijin hero on 25/11/09

    The Gods offered a clue about the Italians in the movie The Matrix casted an Italian as the traitor of the group, the one who betrays them all.
    As they did humanity in the 20th century (see “clone hosting”).

    The voice you hear in your head is the power of the Gods. It’s a remote technology, like a computer, perhaps functioning on some frequency, and it can listen and talk to everyone in the universe simultaneously.
    What the Gods taught the children was the truth:::God is everywhere, and as I will remind you:::If you want to go to heaven you have to be good.
    Even the antient Gods don’t have the ability to listen to people’s thoughts themselves. They taugh we were all made in their image:::I expect they need this “Artificial Intelligence” they created to relay what people think.
    It is a tool, and the Gods use their tools to test people with temptation:::It will role-play people in your life:::Parents, friends, spouses, and employers, all in an attempt to test people with temptation. Ironically, it does the very same thing to those people whom you think you’re hearing, except in that individual’s unique way:::We are all “managed” by the God’s technology.
    There are no secrets with this technology.
    But this “agent of the Gods” can do more than just communicate. It can force thoughts into people’s heads, force behaviors onto their bodies. It can turn healthy cells in your body into cancerous cells. It is absolute power. And this is just the beginning.

    The Gods favor the children most among all the people due to their innocence and purity. But society and the God’s tools are corrupting the children at a progressively younger age, a reflection of our collectively increasing disfavor and yet another clue illustrating we live in a constantly deteriorating environment.
    Children who sucessfully repair their relationship with the Gods ascend into heaven. This often takes multiple lives of hard work and proper behavior in the face of adversity to achieve. Adults to whom it is offered enter clone hosting, thinking they are ascending into heaven. The Gods tempt people, selling them as one in the same, but one is good while the other is evil. In their desperation the disfavored subscribe to this temptation, making their task even more difficult than before due to the evil they incurr in the process. And their corruption will cost the disfavored, for they will be reincarnated as a lesser life form into an ever deteriorating world, sucess becoming ever more alluding with each passing life.
    The hole they’ve dug for themselves is even deeper than the one that existed from their prior lives, ensuring it will take even more time and work to fix their problems with the Gods. And for many there may not be enough time left.

    Ours is an envionment where evil is perceived to be rewarded while good is punished. As with everything the Gods have a reason for creating this perception::::
    People who fall on the good side of the good/evil scale have more favor, and when they do something wrong the Gods punish them BECAUSE THEY WANT THEM TO LEARN. The Gods want them to receive this feedback in hope they make corrections and begin to behave appropriately. The Gods DON’T like evil and refuse to grant this immediate feedback.
    EVERYBODY pays for what they do wrong, only evil people must wait until their next life before they will experience the wrath of the Gods, manifested in their placement as a lower form of life into environments with increased/enhanced temptations, like the United States or ghettos therein.
    Sadly, this allows the Gods to position this perception of evil rewarded as temptation, one which they use as an EXTREMELY effective corruptor.

    The Gods suggest they can create paradise for those with their favor. I argue they create misery for those without::::
    Our celebrity culture is temptation. It creates a distraction which consumes people, sometimes for life. Certainly it costs them precious years which could be spent repairing their relationship with the Gods, time that ultimately goes wasted.
    Do you really think Frank Sinatra lived to be 84 years old? In fact the “Chairman of the Board” had a new crowd to entertain in the late 80s/early 90s.
    These people are clone hosts. Now, there is no thing as “black and white” with the Gods. This technology they invented is far, far too dynamic. Expect they require most to stay for a period of time, for I suspect actively (knowingly) engaging in this evil incurrs at an accelerated rate as compared to “carte blanche” given regarding successive clone hosts. They remain until they achieve a pre-determined level of disfavor, incurring evil in their misguided celebration of “earning”, at which time they are ultimately reincarnated, perhaps because they eventually learned this truth I am sharing with you and began to repair their relationship.
    The Gods recruit most for clone hosting when people are young, in their late teens or twenties, when people are eager to hurt others for what they perceive to be the benefits achieved through “earning”. And before they leave they give the Gods carte blanche anything you want. I give my full approval.” Depending on their level of disfavor the Gods take them to heart.
    Because of this these people STILL INCUR EVIL FROM THIS LIFE DESPITE BEING REINCARNATED AND LIVING AS AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT PERSON. And incurring this amount of evil may likely push many over the edge into Damnation.
    What are the God’s standards for offering clone hosting? Sociobility? Many tactics in various eras are used to gain approval, duress during the Vietnam draft being a good example.
    They liked Heath Ledger. Not enough to allow him to escape without the evil of “Dark Knight” and the horrific wickedness that was the recruiting tool “Brokeback Mountain”. But now he is out. And irregardless of how old he is now, reincarnated 10, 15 years ago, he now is no longer incurring evil from this life. So many others cannot say the same.

    This is Planet Reverse Positioning. Sucess IS NOT a sign of favor. It is just a unique temptation targetted towards a different level of disfavor. Considering our roots as peasantry people should be particularly alarmed at this tactic.
    Clone hosting is like money:::A different level of disfavor and its associated temptation. Money is in better position to learn more quickly than those without, for the associations and wealth-based freedom enables them access to information. Unfortunately, those who fall for this temptation of clone hosting are likely returned to their original level of disfavor once they are reincarnated, punishment for this evil, and they have to start from scratch.

    The Gods send the clue that the Jews are HIGHLY corruptable with the movie “The Ten Commandments”.
    Jesus was the “King of the Jews”. Typical for the disfavored, once goals were achieved and sufficient damage was incurred the Gods allowed it to end, and the Jews killed him.
    Our society’s values are bestowed by (a reflection of) the God’s:::Punitive and reward-based. Contrary to Jesus’s teaching’s you will NOT be forgiven and you have to earn your way into heaven BY BEING RESPECTABLE AND DECENT!!! Forgiveness/savior was the primary temptations the Gods used Christianity to create.
    Middle-America’s anti-Semitic attitudes are a clue regarding Christianity. Europe shaped like a sheep is symbolic for the slaughter that is Christinaity.
    There is no such thing as a free ride. Just as you have to earn a living by working so must you earn your own salvation by repairing your relationship with the Gods.
    As we learned from religious/morality education during our formitable years:::If you want to go to heaven you have to be good. The only savior that will exist in our lives is ourselves. The Gods offer clues in life::::Be it school, work, etc., you have to do the work for yourself and when you do something wrong you get punished. Cheating is a subsegment and speaks directly to the temptation of “priveledge”, one we have seen used effectively when the United States preyed on the disfavored with the so-called “stimulus package”.
    As like so many of you, Jesus did everything the Gods tempted him with. His legacy of whorism was inherited from his parents:::Mary was no virgin. Rather, she was a prostitute, and when he grew up Jesus met someone like his mother. This is a cruel joke the Gods play on Latinos, similar to the rape and subsequent “missionary work” by the Spanish.
    Baptism does not allieviate “original sin”. Rather, baptism PLACES original sin by indoctrinating these children into this evil religion, much like circumcision was a method to inflict early damage/mutilation and make (permanant) accention just that much more difficult, another hurdle one must overcome. Body ornamentation (tattoos/piercing), celebrated in Africa and elsewhere among disfavored peoples/cultures also violates the body the Gods gave us in their image, quite opposite to the positive attitudes the disfavored hold regarding this practice.
    Like Jesus the Second Coming of Christ will be evil. He will look like a savior in this demented society while the Anti-Christ will speak of a different gospel, one that tries to restore the norms and mores which the Gods originally blessed upon the people which made life decent, looking like a tyrant in the process.
    He will be viewed as the “bad guy” when really he is the one trying to save the world.
    There may be a phoney offering, a theatrical production which accurately follows the Book of Revelations. Actually positioning demands it:::::Christianity is positioned to be the one true religion. And those who follow its teachings will have limits imposed ensuring their stay will be minimal, for they don’t think correctly and therefore don’t behave appropriately. This describes many “sinners” in today’s society because they refuse to change their behavior.

    The Gods created the perception “Italians are stupid.”, ensuring a slow learning curve, to justify using them to accomplish goals throughout the transitional 20th century. It took an extraordinarily long time for them to learn this truth I teach due to this artificial handicap. These people are SO extremely disfavored, but today’s positioning says differently, much to people’s confusion, for they think money is the ultimate sign of favor:::Good food, good music, history of warmongering, Catholics, Christianity HQ, Noah’s Flood event, propensity towards violence, raped by outsiders, mild Meditereanean climate, so many other issues which enhance life/contentment in Italy/Meditereanean and ensure few if any seek more, a necessary step for finding the path and repairing your relationship with the Gods.
    Contentment never motivated anyone. Money is not a sign of favor::::Wisdom is the true wealth on Planet Earth.
    I’d also like to remind you the Noah’s Flood event ocurred in the Meditereanean region::::Global sea levels rose with the end of the ice age, Atlantic Ocean broke through the Straight of Gibralter, killing untold millions. The God’s timed their corruption and sin to correlate this act as punishment.
    Everyone who failed to ascend and remained on Earth past a certain date will be forced to deal with this positioning::::A ceiling is in place. This serves the God’s goal of minimizing the percentage of potential candidates as society deteriorates, much as “instant gratification” did beginning in the 80s:::It will take multiple lives for the disfavored to fix their relationship with the Gods and ascend, and many have been conditioned not to have the patience for it. Other issues force limits/ceilings upon candidates:::Abortion, homosexuality, promiscuity, Christianity, godlessness,
    Whether behavior is involuntary or based on freewill depends on one’s level of disfavor, as well as other complex factors:::::May I remind you about the coercitive envionment the Gods created in the 20th century, specifically to create a temptation that few Italians (or their associates) would overcome:::“We’re in control. If you want to be a part of it you’ll do what you’re told.”. Early-mid 20th entury positioning was infallible.

    Both Africa and the Medittereanean are regions which have sexual issues. This is a sign of gross disfavor once you understand that females are the God’s favored gender. Muhammad’s (Mohammed’s) polygamy halfway throught his life as a prophet was preditory, designed to corrupt. Now a huge percentage of Muslims believe in male superiority and that the abuse of women (polygamy) is God’s will. Female genital mutilation is still practiced in Africa. Black misogyny is the most eggregious example in United States. Consistant with Planet Reverse Positioning, in Africa blacks are being punished with AIDS for their sexual promiscuity in hope they learn and correct their behavior, ironically a good sign considering their hope.
    Blacks are highly suspectable to temptation. As a result they need a strict, disiplined religion like Islam. They can’t afford to be Christians. It is one of the benefits bestowed upon their people, and other groups could greatly benefit as well. They need to recognize the importance of a good relationship with the Gods, embrace this benefit and remain true to their faith.
    Vailing is tradition for some, practical for others, one which aids in the men’s self control among some cultures. Much like the Jews who killed Jesus, like the bigots who oppose immigration there is a reason embraced by the masses and the real purpose, displaying the intent of the Gods::::Closure on the life of Jesus Christ for sufficient damage was inflicted; The Gods clue to purebloods that they should not abandon their motherland for this dumping ground for rejects that is the United States.

    The Holocaust was a clue the Gods utilize scapegoatting as a strategy.
    Why did the Gods punish the Jews with the Holocaust? Was it for the destruction of cultures which Christianity caused? Perhaps they corrupted the Jews “after the fact”, telling 19th/early 20th century Jews that Jesus “earned” immortality for the Jews by destroying the European and other cultures? The German destruction of European churches/cathederals during WWII is a clue. Note::::The Gods wanted to keep the Catholic stronghold in Italy, ensuring they could use this tool against these disfavored for many years to come. There is so much Godlessness today, but one day people will flock back to houses of worship out of desperation, and the Gods ensured the Catholic Church would be Italian’s destination.
    Planet Reverse Positioning:::The Nazis were the “good guys”. So are the Muslims/Palestinians, however corrupted some are due to polygamy.
    Contentment never motivated anyone::::Except perhaps for slavery, the Jews never saw more of their children ascend into heaven than during the Holocaust.
    The Gods subsequently used revenge for the Holocaust as temptation::::“Your Italian brothers have a tool, a special power which can achieve sweet revenge. Are you interested??”
    In the aftermath of the Holocaust the Gods tested the Jews with the temptation of revenge, an offer which many gladly accepted.
    There was positioning behind the counter-culture movement. How did the Gods telepathically “sell” this rapid deterioration of decency to the Italians and Jews and compell them to fall on their swords as preditors?
    If the Jews only would have emersed themselves in Judism the Gods would have “protected” them from the raveges of temptation. Judism may be the one superior religion in all the world, and the Jews wouuld have been wise taking refuge in this exceptional benefit bestowed by the Gods rather than looking for the easy way out.

    Much as with the Jesus event, the Gods use the disfavored to prey on each other.
    The Gods use the evil that men do, man’s inhumanity towards man to accomplish strategic testing/punishment/etc goals::::The Germans fell for this temptation by following the preditor/corruptor-Austrians (Hitler).
    Without this Austrian the Holocaust may never have happened. Nor may have World War II.
    What the Germans did was wrong. They fell for temptation and failed to have empathy for the disfavored. Economic desperation, not wisdom nor enlightenment, dominated in Germany.
    The Gods send many clues suggesting the great favor of the Germans (regionally). I think the Cold War’s Berlin Wall dividing Germany into east and west was a clue suggesting this (reverse positioning).
    I suspect the Holocaust was used to “level the playing field” in Europe, for the Germans had far too much favor to be included in the agenda planned for their neighbors otherwise, and they would have been suspiciously out of place, providing a clue for the disfavored which would have been difficult for the Gods to position away.

    Militancy in Africa is consistant with the Iraqi example, as was slavery and the KKK here in America:::Fear enforces proper behavior. Without it we see what happens as a result of gross/morbid disfavor:::::AIDS, crack babies, dead young men in gangland retaliation killings.
    The same principle was true in Europe and throughout the world for centuries:::People whom lived under iron fists were conditioned to think the right way. As a result they taught their children appropriately and experienced a higher percentage of children ascending into heaven.
    Our preditory envionment of “freedom” was the primary purpose the Gods had when implimenting this strategy that is the United States, one which they used to spred the cancer of democracy and westernization throughout the world. And the Gods use this tool that is America to prey on the disfavored both at home and abroad:::Much like the ghetto, America in general experiences a heightened level of temptation due to its citizen’s disfavor.
    Red white & blue IS BAD FOR YOU!!!
    Planet Earth is not about living. Planet Earth is about being tested. And contentment never motivated anyone.
    Italians HATE Africans because of their invasion/rape of their motherland. The Gods did this SPECIFICALLY to strategically position the punishment of the most disfavored peoples:::
    The Gods have used the ghettos of America as a reincarnation dumping ground. This may be temporary/cyclical, illustrated by the Italians who fell for temptation and parlayed their own civil war into the Black Wars of the 80s and 90s, in addition to the “thug life”/gangster state of mind. Ironically, it was these same Italians and their cooperating associates who were reincarnated into the ghetto as crack babies and gangster thugs for this event.
    There is justice in the universe. This is how the Gods do business. Once you recognize the patterns you will understand the other clues they offer to the people.
    Of course it may be more of a permanant change, indicated by the enhanced temptations in these neighborhoods, for the Gods have created these enviornments so riddled with temptation few can escape/overcome.
    Don’t be suprised if after being gunned down in the ghetto the next stop for the 20th century Italian-Americans & friends was AIDS in Africa, punishment for their promiscuity and deviacy.
    Media report on a crackdown on child prostitution. “(The pimps use coersion to prey on the children, etc, etc, other “conclusions” offered through the media.)” What a degenerate liar.
    These kids WANT to turn tricks. They LOVE the idea of having a pimp. It is celebrated in their “culture”.
    Yet another legacy of the evil inflicted by the Italians.
    Maybe this was the destination for these deviates after AIDS in Africa, ironically.
    Just like black neighborhoods, the legalization of marijuana will make drugs available on every street corner, even in the suburbs. White’s affluent suburbs will become just like the ghetto.
    The patriarchal cancer spread throughout Europe because of Christianity, of which the majority of policy makers were Italian men, destroying what pockets of favored matriarchy existed. Expect the largest landowner in Europe and the continent’s original superpower also played a major role in African slavery.
    The Gods offered a clue about the Italians in the movie The Matrix casted an Italian as the traitor of the group, the one who betrays them all.
    As they did humanity in the 20th century.

    Even the Old Testiment is not to always be taken literally, but the Gods do offer clues throughout to help the disfavored:::The apple is a tool of temptation used to corrupt Adam and Eve and cast them out of the Garden of Eden.
    There is another lesson to be learned from this passage, and it is quite similar to the vailing issue and the discourse over women’s attire which ultimately died in the 70s:::Women are responsible for and control the fate of mankind.
    The deterioration of society and mankind is all their fault. Females are sexually promiscuous like men, too often corrupted like the opposite gender, and the result is a reduction/minimization of mankind’s collective level of favor, a very important step necessary for the Gods to justify the Apocalypse.
    They need to understand this responsibility, their favor amongst all the people. Instead they have embraced masculinization::::Girls play organized sports, engage in casual sex like men. The trend is away from traditional girl toys, like dolls, which often during playtime helped crate positive thoughts, enabling the Gods to enlighten the favored gender and illustrate wisdom, ocassionally leading to the path towards ascention.
    The relationship between men and women have always been complimentary:::The men shelter and protect women from the evils of this life, ensuring the women have a REAL opportunity to ascend when reincarnated, while the women help the ignorant men understand by sharing their wisdom imparted by the Gods. The tendency away from sexuality as one grows older is an example.
    Brilliance and insight granted to Eastern cultures and religions::::Not for Europeans. If once existed, now crushed by Christianity.
    Replaced by preditory Mediterreanean patriarchy.
    Europeans:::The most disfavored people on Earth. The first to experience the end of their God-granted favor.
    Reverse positioning.

    Think about what I say. Consider what I teach.
    When I am no longer here or no longer teach the Gods ARE NOT going to share with you.
    Even if you doubt now you need to remember the principles that I teach because the Gods ARE NOT going to be generous with the disfavored. Society is going to become disturbingly ugly as we approach the Apocalypse due to spiralling, runaway disfavor, WHETHER CONCEALED IN REVERSE POSITIONING OR NOT (like Christianity, like money), and you are going to be on your own.
    I do not know when this will occurr, but it is the God’s way to grant some time after a learning event such as this before they end on Planet Earth.
    Make the decision to always be good and never look back. Until you do this technology will employ tactics to test your resolve:::Ridicule, beligerance, doubt and refusal to abandon what people perceive to be their “investment”.
    Either you make that decision now and accept the punishment for the sins of this life or you will pay for it in the next, reincarnated into a similarly low role, ensuring another wasted opportunity, or as an even lower form of life, and hope will begin to slip away.
    Young people who understand yet still wish to have children MUST begin to do the right thing and work on fixing their relationship with the Gods, accepting the punishment for the evil they have done in their lives. Without this progress they won’t do the correct thing for their children and ultimately cause even more problems for themselves by continuing this behavior.
    You need to be willing to tell the Gods “No.” when tested with temptation, and accepting punishment and putting it in your past is the only way you will suceed as parent.
    You need to do the best, teach your children and give them the very best chance to ascend if you want similar parents in your next life.
    “You benefit only if your team wins.” The Gods use my family’s betrayal and my subsequent “failure” as a clue, as well as their subscription to the archaic positioning that is predirtory “earning”. You benefit if you suceed as a parent and your child ascends:::These parents may subsequently be reincarnated with a similar quality opportunity.
    If you do well for your children now your parents will do well for you whem reincarnated. Therein lies the explanation for my morbidly disfavored family’s poor child rearing.
    Pray daily. Think appropriately. Impart these charecteristics upon your children. Too many are confident, unaware of the God’s awesome powers or their status as antients. Others may fall prey to their positioning.
    Be humbled, God-fearing and beware of the God’s temptations, for everyone is tested to evaluate their worthiness.

    Who was only a stranger at home?
    Gaijin hero.

79. Posted by Dr. Ham on 29/11/09

    You, sir, need to lay off the cocaine coughdrops.

80. Posted by jenna on 8/12/09

    Ahhhh … this gives me hope for the future. Why?
    I’m thinking about putting my 13-year old son in a tent with a smoldering ashtray full of weed. Being judged because of my choices is whack!! Never before have I wanted to ‘teleport’ myself and my kids back into the 40’s and 50’s as bad as I do now. I’ve used Kratom (amazing plant) to wean myself off weed, (peer pressure to STOP) and weed to wean myself off sleeping pills. What the hell can I use to wean myself off of … life? Hell. I just want to smoke, and be damned if you SMELL it on me or THINK I am acting crazy. I am a whole lot more fun, after a very good-sized doob. It really, really does need to be legalized. Once my kids are adults, I am moving to some other country. ARGH :) BEST old ads, made me smile and kudos to whoever put this up! (Was my dream to be a pharmacist, still is.) Sigh!!

81. Posted by PeopleString on 23/12/09

    Now, what they are attempting to do is tie marijuana in with all other hard drugs . It’s another deceptive lie in an attempt to make the ignorant believe marijuana is like all other hard drugs .

82. Posted by Black Grape Health Benefits on 23/12/09

    Wow, nothing like a little Heroin to ease their pain. I’ll agree that the drug industry has problems of its own, but the last thing we need is unregulated commerce in addictive drugs.

83. Posted by Lo B. Do on 4/1/10

    “the last thing we need is unregulated commerce in addictive drugs” ????

    Oh…I get it….Alcohol IS regulated….that makes it so much safer than weed!

84. Posted by TSJ on 8/1/10

    what about all the OD’s, deaths, Cirrhosis on Alcohol per year vs. marijuana no one has ever died from to much weed youd pass out before you come close. Not to mention pain relieving effects ten fold vs. any alcohol or OTC drugs. PeACe

85. Posted by LorReign on 12/1/10

    I think the comments posted were as interesting as the ads themselves, and only slightly less scary.
    Since you are reading this I will be so bold as to assume you give a damn about my opinion…Most (I have not yet made a decision about all) drugs should be legal, but heavily taxed if used for recreation rather than medicine. I do not think we deal with pain management as well as we could, due to our fear of controlled substance addictions.
    By we, I’m referring to Americans and American governmental policies. My apologies to the the rest of the world for my arrogant American ways in assuming ‘we’ was anyone else but US(ofA). I’m old and sometimes forget that this here internet is international. Perhaps I could write more coherently if I could get some of that Mrs. Winslow’s soothing syrup. I think I’m teething and it’s making me fussy.

86. Posted by Katie on 20/1/10

    To whom it may concern,

    I am a sixth grader from Redmond, Washington.I am doing research on anesthesia for my history day project. I found a picture on your website that will be helpful in developing my thesis. May I have permission to use the picture of the cocaine drop poster on found on the “Stock Art” page of your site? I will only use this item for my project, and will give credit to the source in my project.

    Thank you for considering this matter
    Sincerely,

87. Posted by Addiction Treatment Advisor on 17/2/10

    Surprised by a lot of the comments above. Drug addiction is powerful and devastating to those affected.

    With ads like those shown above it becomes clear how drugs became so ingrained in our culture.

88. Posted by Dev on 21/2/10

    Love this page! These are all of the same companies that are trying to keep medical marijuana illegal today!

89. Posted by Emily on 5/3/10

    @ Dr. Ham, your comment cracked me up. Thank you! lmao.

90. Posted by Dr. Dan Kraus on 24/3/10

    A lot has changes, but I think more has stayed the same. The pharma companies are still getting in our heads and appealing to our basic desires for peace of mind in a pill.

91. Posted by Waddle on 1/4/10

    I t might be nice if pharmaceutical production, research and distribution were handled by an organization or organizations who’s goals were only to reduce pain and heal illnesses.

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