Fast Facts: Oct. 1
October 1, 2010
- A narcotic liquid was once found in the center portion of heads of lettuce, a natural occurrence that was bred out of the vegetable over several years.
- Both “”Murphy Brown”” and “”Roseanne”” aired episodes in which the sitcom’s title character used marijuana.
- Coca-Cola wasn’t the only soft drink at one time to contain a drug derivative in its mixture; lithium was once part of the formula for 7-Up.
- A Colombian drug smuggling ring broken up by the DEA in 2006 involved packets of heroin that had been surgically implanted into puppies.
- Thomas Jefferson’s earliest drafts of the Declaration of Independence were written on paper made from hemp (the same plant that can be harvested as marijuana).
- Around the turn of the 20th century, Bayer marketed heroin as a cough suppressant alongside its other new “”miracle drug,”” asprin.
