# Iceburgs and Audubons \[lettuce and the French guy\]

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [September 19, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceburgs-and-audubons-lettuce-and-the-french-guy/796755 "2017-09-19T19:46:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iceburgs-and-audubons-lettuce-and-the-french-guy/796755/1 "2017-09-19T19:46:51Z")

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Article in question:["Is iceberg lettuce a drug?’](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2578/is-iceberg-lettuce-a-drug)

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> 1. According to a 1998 report, three drug enthusiasts mixed up an extract of wild lettuce (one also tried valerian root), injected it, and came down with fever, chills, headache and other pain, neck stiffness, etc, for three days.

Yeah … so … did the subjects get high?

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> Your 1986 column on the lost Dauphin should be updated. (“The Straight Dope: Was naturalist J.J. Audubon really the dauphin who would have become Louis XVII?,” January 3, 1986.)

That’s a bad link in the article … should be [http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/864/was-naturalist-j-j-audubon-really-the-dauphin-who-would-have-become-louis-xvii](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/864/was-naturalist-j-j-audubon-really-the-dauphin-who-would-have-become-louis-xvii)