Cocaine according to Sigmund Freud, “...wards of hunger, sleep, and fatigue,and steels one to intellectual effort, some dowzentimes on myself.” At this time feud and a man named Sir Robert Christison, a seventy-eight year old world-famous toxicologist who works at the University of Edinburgh, done experiments with cocaine which was injecting it into Freud's system and he went an entire day without the desire to eat or drink, even after a fifteen-mile walk. In addition, it caused your alertness and efficiency levels to rise; they thought this substance was magical and the world was introduced to a wonderful thing. As a result, this cause cocaine to not be prohibited it was surprisingly made into an elixir, advertised and consumed by many. There …show more content…
The Connecticut State Medical Society conducted a meticulous inspection which after caused the higher prty of Americans to consider as a low class drug only “bohemians, gamblers, high- and low-class prostitutes, night porters, bell boys, burglars, racketeers, pimps, and casual laborers.” This way of thinking caused less people to use it and only the lower class decided to take action and continue to use this drug. In the beginning, the government played no roles in this ad if they did it was small one, they took action later on when it got serious. Even the Chief of police warned Congress about cocaine stating, “The cocaine is by far the greatest menace to society, because the victims are generally vicious…” In 1909 the government decided to step up and prohibit the sales of drug use in the nation's capital; but they were too late, the drug use already got out of control. People were acting out