200 year old cough syrup?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3274720596&category=895

Assuming i broke that bottle open and somehow consumed the hard,gooey,somewhere between contents inside would i catch a nice opiate buzz?

If the bottle is full of opiate resin, I don’t think it would be allowed to be auctioned on Ebay. Here’s their policy on controlled substances.

Unless Ebay administrators haven’t caught it yet… they have no way of knowing what exactly is in the stuff, and probably have a big job checking all their auctions for legality/compliance with policy. Didn’t someone have an auction up for their left kidney for a brief time?

Well i happened on these antique collectible old medicine bottles and noticed that some of them are advertised as unused/full.

Which brought up the question of just how long opiate resin can last.

Just check out the top few results

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?query=cough+syrup&ht=1&sosortproperty=1&from=R10&BasicSearch=

Here’s another auction for Dill’s Cough Syrup, and the seller lists the active ingredients on the label as alcohol and chloroform:

http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult&SortProperty=MetaEndSort&ht=1&query=dill's