Where a few drugs came from: in case you wondered

Just to set the record straight....few people know where the drugs they take come from, how they are made or otherwise. Here is a smattering of links on various drugs topics, legal and illegal drugs both (depending on your country of origin). Some are just good stories to be honest on how researches stumbled upon specific drugs therapies.

LSD:
  http://inventors.about.com/od/lstartinventions/a/LSD.htm

   http://leapingrealeyes.blogspot.com/2005/07/invention-of-lsd.html

Penecillin:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin

Pastuerization: of foods
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteurization

Taxol: chemo treatment
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxol

Cocaine:
   http://www.psychoactive.org.uk/cocaine/history.htm

Morphine:
    http://www.opioids.com/morphine/200-anniv.html
    http://www.livescience.com/279-200th-birthday-morphine.html