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Originally Posted by simonmark6
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Chewing tobacco might be popular as well as rough made cigars and cigarillos.
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Turkey is a possible site for more potent heroin that could be traded up into Europe, but again, most would probably go toward medical use although medical and recreational use can go hand in hand as was shown in the C19th use of Laudanum.
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Magic Mushrooms will be available as will Argot, which grows as a mold on stored cereals. It is interesting because it can occur naturally and causes hallucinations of being on fire or being able to fly. A potential mystery for adventures could be a community with a rash of drownings and falls with the cause being an accidental growth of Argot. If you want a villain it could be an unscrupulous trader.
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Glue and solvents are also a nasty drug that might be still common.
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Really nasty, as in the Russian fashion in making a gasoline-based drug called "Krokodil" that caused horrific injection site tissue dehiscence (eccchhh!!!)
Tobacco pipes will rejoin popular tobacco usages as well as the cigar/chaw/snuff forms.
While hemp may be less active, gathering the hemp flowers' resin for hashish might be possible.
As for fungus from rotting grain, ergot grows very well on rye products, and not only has psychotropic effects, it can lead to the decrease in bloodflow to extremities, causing, wait for it....gangrene. Not something you'd really want to risk a high for.
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