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What Getting High Was Like in Medieval Times

Fall asleep to the strange history of getting drunk and high in medieval Europe. From ale and wine to opium, henbane, and mandrake, discover what people took for pleasure, pain, and a better night's sleep and what could happen when the remedy had other plans.

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