Did you know that before being illegal and considered a drug particularly harmful to the health of its users, cocaine was touted as a miracle drug that brought tone and energy?
At the end of the XIXe century, the newspapers even extolled its benefits, while personalities of the time, such as Sigmund Freud or Emile Zola, openly promoted it.
In this episode of the “L’Heure du Monde” podcast, Thomas Saintourens and Simon Piel, journalists at Monde and specialists in drug trafficking, return to the history of cocaine, to which they have devoted a series of five articles.
An episode of Madjid Bennaceur. Production and music: Amandine Robillard. Presentation and editor-in-chief: Morgane Tual. In this episode: excerpts from television news from France 3. Readings of excerpts from articles in the Figaro and newspaper The Popularpublished on January 25, 1892 and September 16, 1918. An extract from France Inter on the indictment of Françoise Sagan, broadcast on March 18, 1988. An extract from the title Sister Morphine, des Rolling Stones.
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Find the summer series “le roman de la coke” on the history of cocaine
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