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Originally Posted by Old Vantaa Man
What fucking heroine? No fucking women in our flick.
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"Heroin", not "heroine" goddammnit.
Pardon my confederate, redneck, fast-typing self, you fucking grammar nazi.
Heroin is a product of the opium poppy,
Papaver Somniforum.
Opium and morphine were the first two psychotropics extracted from opium poppies.
In the early 1900's Bayer A.G. found out that mixing acetic anhydride with salicylic acid (aspirin) made it much easier on one's stomach, hence the formulation of "Bayer Aspirin."
Another chemist figured it might be worth a try to boil up morphine with acetic anhydride as morphine was known to be quite hard on patient's digestive systems too. The result was not a more gastrointestinally palatable form of morphine, it was heroin.
Now go shoot some up you fucking grammar nazi.
