We can make an exception of opium 'which the creator seems to prescribe, as we often see the scarlet poppy growing in the corn fields' but all other receipts of Omniscience must be condemned. The purple fox-glove, the many-tinted veratrum the lilac stramonium they are all 'noxious' but a little opium it helps the imagination.
Criticizing the medical use of noxious psychoactive drugs.