Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:01 Of Scythians and cannabis
1:49 Medical uses of opium
3:18 Medical uses of cannabis
4:15 The poppy goddess
4:41 Drugs in Greek religious ritual
5:23 The Eleusinian Mysteries
6:01 Recreational drugs in Ancient Rome
6:53 Problems of evidence
7:21 Conclusion
In Eastern Europe people collect wild poppies and make tea for people who are sick. In South America you can also buy coca tea legally—it helps you breathe better if you are stuffed up—and they have been using it for thousands of years.
Hi.
6:53 Problems of evidence
I’m guessing all the evidence was either smoked or ingested, and you can’t drug test a mummy.
5.56mm
no hemlock or nightshade? maybe some wolfbane... 8^)
Isn’t it true that residues of cocaine have been found in the pharaohs?
Well, there’s this from Herodotus about the Scythians and hemp, besides making cloth from it, there was this odd steam bath:
“75. The Scythians then take the seed of this hemp and creep under the felt coverings, and then they throw the seed upon the stones which have been heated red-hot: and it burns like incense and produces a vapor so think that no vapor-bath in Hellas would surpass it: and the Scythians being delighted with the vapor-bath howl like wolves.”
Hmmmmn...
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