[pfony1]

True enough, but...

I wanted to hark back to the cult of "Assassins", whose suicidal killers terrorized 15th Century Persia with a series of surprise attacks on high government officials.
THOSE "assassins" had been seduced into joining the cult by "hashish"-induced "Journeys to Paradise".

Of course, any evidence that the current crop of suicidal terorists routinely prepare for their "missions" by first getting "stoned" is , admittedly, fragmentary...

[Paul Ross]

Hashish, huh? Wonder if the Islamo-Nazis and Chinese PLA have their hands in the Meth crisis here.

[fallujah-nuker]

They also assassinated a few Mongol governors, which brought them to the attention of one Hulagu Khan, with disastrous consequences for the Assassins. Terror was met with overwhelming terror, climaxing at Baghdad.