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Romanian chemist Lazar Edeleanu first synthesized amphetamines, he use a plant found in China called Ma-Haunge.
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Used in pharmaceutical drugs until the 1920s when the drug was used to expand airways for people who had asthma, hay fever, and common cold
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drug company, Smith, Kline and French would sell amphetamines in inhalers at first but clinical enthusiasm for the drug would soon lead to an increase in the use of amphetamines
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by the mid-1930s, teens and young adults looking for a cheap way to get high were taking the amphetamine strips out of the Benzodrine Inhalers and placing them into a cup of coffee or chewing and swallowing them. This would produce an intense stimulant effect upon the user
