Mickey's amphetamine adventure

[image error]Drug information site Erowid recently posted a 1951 Disney comic where Mickey Mouse and Goofy take speed.

In the strip, 'Mickey Mouse and the Medicine Man', Mickey and Goofy discover a new medicine called 'Peppo' which is clearly meant to represent amphetamine. Their enthusiasm for the chemical pick-me-up leads them to become salesman for the product in Africa.

Although the idea of Disney characters taking speed seems rather incongruous these days, in 1951 amphetamine was legal and widely...