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Sherlock Holmes famously uses "the 7% solution," aka, injected cocaine, to stimulate his mind when he's not on a case. How easy would it have been to get cocaine in 1860s-1880s London, and who were the primary users?

by /u/erissays in /r/AskHistorians

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