![]() ![]() More than once, she jumps off the stage furious at a heckler shouting obscene comments to grab a bottle of champagne and smash it over his head.Ĭannabis is still available in many medicinal products for various ailments, but it does not play much of a role as a psychoactive substance in the cultural life of Berlin at the time. She steps out of a car on the Kurfürstendamm with a sable fur and a monocle, her hair dyed red, her make-up in screaming colors and carrying a little monkey with her. Legendary naked dancer Anita Berber, who openly admits to consuming large amounts of cocaine, is the style-icon of the day. ![]() Writers like Ernst Jünger and Gottfried Benn consume cocaine. ![]() The authorities aren’t really enforcing the drug regulations they protect the interests of the big drug-producing pharmaceutical companies in Germany, which are now part of the leading pharmaceutical industry in the world. Here, the popular drugs – outside from alcohol and tobacco – are cocaine and morphine, available on prescription only, but happily peddled by many doctors who are making good money pushing their illicit wares. ![]() In Berlin, the decade is also in full swing, but the first signs of the upcoming catastrophic end of this era are already visible, as radical national socialist groups clash more and more with Marxists in violent street fights. In the U.S., marijuana use is widespread almost exclusively amongst Mexicans and black Jazz musicians during the swinging “Roaring Twenties”. ![]()
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