Emperors Of Dreams

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These decadent cultural images are familiar but what is the story behind them? • Coleridge and de Quincey swilling laudanum • Sigmund Freud and Sherlock Holmes dallying with cocaine • Baudelaire and Gautier rapt in hashish fantasies • Queen Victoria with her prescription of cannabis How did cannabis and cocaine opium and ether mushrooms and mescaline enter the worlds of nineteenth century Britain Europe and America-and what was their impact on that century's dreams and nightmares?