Posted on 10/20/2008 6:31:46 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
...researchers have found equipment used to prepare hallucinogenic drugs for sniffing, and dated them back to prehistoric South American tribes.
Quetta Kaye, of University College London, and Scott Fitzpatrick, an archeologist from North Carolina State University, made the breakthrough on the Caribbean island of Carriacou.
They found ceramic bowls, as well as tubes for inhaling drug fumes or powders, which appear to have originated in South America between 100BC and 400BC and were then carried 400 miles to the islands.
While the use of such paraphernalia for inhaling drugs is well-known, the age of the bowls has thrown new light on how long humans have been taking drugs.
Scientists believe that the drug being used was cohoba, a hallucinogen made from the beans of a mimosa species. Drugs such as cannabis were not found in the Caribbean then.
Opiates can be obtained from species such as poppies, while fungi, which was widespread, may also have been used.
Archeologists have suggested that humans were extracting mind-expanding drugs from mescal beans and peyote cacti as far back as 5,000 years ago, but have not found direct evidence that this is true.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Censing The God: Psychoactive Substances In Ancient Egypt
by Michael Carmichael
(precis by Andrew Collins)
Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
http://lime.weeg.uiowa.edu/ (dead link) | 8 September 1996 | EQUINOX - Channel 4 - UK
Posted on 03/25/2005 8:28:56 PM PST by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1371036/posts
The Wines And Herbs In The Land Of Pan
Kathimerini | 12-28-2006 | Stavroula Kourakou
Posted on 12/29/2006 4:56:39 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1760103/posts
Ummmm I think you’ve mixed up story and headline
This story and link have nothing to do with the headline on the forum page...
Figures you’d drill me on that. /rimshot!
Yeah, I was getting in touch with my inner airhead, and clicked “post” instead of “edit”; the former attempted topic was from an unusable source, and I hadn’t finished editing out the traces. I reported abuse on myself, and the mods graciously fixed it already. :’) I guess it’ll be our little secret. Whoops! I’ve pushed “post” again, too late to stop it now...
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I guess now I’m under suspicion of being “stone aged”... ;’)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2110129/posts?page=6#6
Jeeze....I get jacked up on caffeine every day. Sometimes I inhale cigars and get a nice little buzz. Sometimes I have a glass of wine with dinner. And once a year I have a shot of Jack in honor of my Dad.
I am a drug user.
This is news?
My bet is the various compoiunds they discovered then were for either healeing or more likely for holy men seeking to commune with the Gods. They weren't likely for some 17 year old sitting around bored on a Saturday night.
That’s why I post few threads. An interruption can cause havoc...
When did 400 BC become “prehistoric”?
When it happened in the Caribbean.
Sure, but the 17 year olds must have been pokin’ their heads inside the tent, saying, “don’t bogart that”. ;’) Be sure to click on the “Censing the God” link.
Not to those of us who know ya. /joke alert! joke alert!
Yeah, it lets slip the dogs of war, that’s for sure.
Whoa!! Dude!!!
Uh, what?
Perhaps. But the Holy men were well respected then, and curiosity aside, fear (of screwing with the Gods, getting them mad at you or at your tribe) was a good motivator to stay OUT of the tent.
Here’s an obscure one. Where can one find a copy of the video “Guitar picks and roach clips”?
At the drug store?.
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