HUMAN HISTORY ON DRUGS

A lively hilarious and entirely truthful look at the druggie side of history s most famous figures including Shakespeare Queen Victoria and the Beatles from debut author and viral historical TikToker with over 100K followers Sam Kelly Did you know that Alexander the Great was a sloppy drunk William Shakespeare was a stoner and George Washington drank a spoonful of opium every night to staunch the pain from his fake teeth Or how about the fact that China s first emperor Qin Shi Huangdi ingested liquid mercury in an ironic attempt to live forever or that Alexander Shulgin inventor of no less than 230 new psychedelic drugs was an employee of the DEA In Human History on Drugs historian Sam Kelly introduces us to the history we weren t taught in school offering up irreverent and hysterical commentary as he sheds light on some truly shocking aspects of the historical characters we only thought we knew With chapters spanning from Ancient Greece The Oracle of Delphi Was Huffing Fumes and the Victorian Era Vincent van Gogh Ate Yellow Paint to Hollywood s Golden Age Judy Garland Was Drugged by Grown Ups and modern times Carl Sagan Got Astronomically High Kelly s research spans all manner of eras places and of course drugs