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  • Drug Use in Ancient Greece and Rome

    09/18/2021 12:36:46 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 25 replies
    YouTube ^ | September 17, 2021 | toldinstone
    The Ancient Greeks and Romans used opium, marijuana, and other narcotics to relieve pain and induce sleep. They may have also enhanced rituals and enlivened banquets with hallucinogens.Drug Use in Ancient Greece and Rome | September 17, 2021 | toldinstone | 23:03
  • Stone Age man took drugs, say scientists

    10/20/2008 6:31:46 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 25 replies · 615+ views
    Telegraph ^ | October 19, 2008 | Jonathan Wynne-Jones
    ...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...