Hadacol

[benbreen]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadacol

[fred256]

Vaguely related: wine bricks [1]

“After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...

[petercooper]

Reminds me of how Winston Churchill, who liked a drink, worked around Prohibition-era rules while in the US: http://www.openculture.com/2016/05/winston-churchill-gets-a-...

[tptacek]

So this is basically the American equivalent of an Amaro, but with vitamins instead of medicinal herbs?

[lqet]

> In 1943, LeBlanc conceived the idea that became "Hadacol" in New Orleans, when he had persistent pain in his foot and elsewhere.

[ahazred8ta]

plus a vitamin-infused comic book hero, Captain Hadacol™

http://web.archive.org/web/20100322211300/http://www.savagec...

[amelius]

Could the same strategy be applied to recreational drugs?

[oh_sigh → amelius]

If you're talking about mushroom spores, then maybe. If you're talking about heroin or meth, then almost certainly not - considering even meth precursors(ephedrine) are regulated.

[nyolfen → amelius]

bath salts