Heroin was not invented by Nazis...it was first marketed by Bayer in 1895, and it was first synthesized by a British chemist in the 1870s.
There's irony in your snarky joke too. Heroin is synthesized by adding two acetyl groups to naturally occurring morphine. You get diacetylmorphine, aka heroin. It's still an effective pain killer used in hospitals today. When it was first introduced, it would have been more expensive to make than the naturally occurring morphine! :lol:
People looking for alternatives find all sorts of nice things, and some addictive things too. That's entrepreneurial. I doubt this fuel will go far, but it's not my money, so I don't really care what someone chooses to research and develop.
Trust Tonington, the guy who shills for big pharma to catch me on that one.
However it is true my memory confused WW1 with WW2.
The Brits did discover Heroin but they did not claim, register or patent it.
The Germans rediscovered it prior to the war, patented it, named it Heroin and marketed it as a painkiller.
The German pharmaceutical company Bayer AG then ramped up production of Heroin for use as a wartime painkiller.
At the end of WW1 the allies, as war reparations, seized the valuable patents to Heroin from Germany.
In WW2 Bayer AG, which had become IG Farben ramped up production of another one of its favorite chemical compounds Zyklon B.
That’s the one they gassed the Jews with.