For the Love of Opium
Simmons, W. E.![For the Love of Opium](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/455/45532999/CHSBZCOP0345532999.jpg)
From Roman emperors to the most famous Queen of Egypt, from Mary Shelley to Edgar Allen Poe, Charles Dickens to Pablo Picasso, so much of art and history were inspired by the one and only plant that nature saw fit to deliver us from pain, both physical, mental, and spiritual. It gave us our very first medicine, our first extracted alkaloid, and our first controlled substance. Man's quest to improve nature gave us our first unstoppable addictio...