Transcript Drug Use: A Hella Dank History

Drug Use: A Hella Dank History
A Narcotized Neolithic
10,200 ~ 4500 BCE
• Alcoholic residues found in pots, suggesting at
least accidental fermentation and
consumption
• 8,000 BCE – Hemp cultivation
• 6,000 BCE – Cannabis seeds used for food
• 5,000 BCE – Opium use among Sumerians,
Cannabis among Tibetan Buddhists
Use in Ancient Civilization
• 3,500 BCE – First recorded, concerted
production of alcohol in Egypt
• 2727 BCE – Cannabis as medicine, China
• 2000 BCE – Earliest prohibitionist teaching,
Egypt
• 2000 ~ 800 BCE – Bhang mentioned in
Athravaveda “Sacred Grass”, psalms of praise
Diaspora of Drugs
• 700 – 600 BCE – Zorastrian
Zendavesta (Zoraster) mentions
Bhang as “good narcotic”
• Ancient Greece and Rome –
Poppy capsules
• 700 – 300 BCE - Scythian tribes
leave Cannabis seeds as offerings
• Burial site of Scythian couple in
Kazakstan, Cannabis introduced
to Europe, Germany
First Formal Recognition
• 430 BCE – Herodotus
describes this recreational
use among the Scythians
• 300 BCE – Theophrastus
records earliest use of
poppy juice
• 100 BCE – Psychoactive
properties of Cannabis in
Pen Ts’ao Ching
Earliest Prescriptions
• 70 -– Dioscorides use of Cannabis as
Roman medicine
• 130 ~ 200 –- Galen prescribes medical
cannabis
• 200 –- Chinese surgeon Hua T’’o uses
cannabis as an anesthetic
• 300 –- Woman in Jerusalem given
cannabis during childbirth
• 500 –- Jewish texts mention euphoric
properties of Cannabis
• 450 -– Babylonian texts
Golden Age of Exploration
• 1000 -– Opium widely used in China, hashish use spreads
throughout Arabia
• 1200 –- Cannabis introduced to Egypt, use continues to
popularize through M.E., mentioned in 1001 Nights
• Mescaline and Peyote use among Aztecs and indigenous
Mexicans
• Coca, Mate, Coffee used by native workers in mining, farming,
cannabis among Angolan slave
• 1493 - Tobacco introduced by Columbus
• 1600 -– Shakespeare mentions “””””””sack, sweet wine
Home Brew and Beheadings
• 1613 – John Rolf (Pocahontas) sends tobacco
to England
• 1650 – Tobacco use heavily criminalized in
Ottoman Empire, present day Germany
• Rewards given to those who denounce coffee
drinkers
• 18th century – Attempts to curb alcohol use
among poor English, colonists
Scientific Syntheses
• 1805 – Friedrich Serturner isolates morphine
• 1844 – Cocaine isolated in pure form
• 1850 – Cannabis used widely in US, easily
purchased in general stores
• 1898 – Diacetylmorphine synthesized in
Germany
George “too turnt” Washington
cited shit
• http://www.lectlaw.com/files/drg09.htm
• http://www.narconon.org/drug-information/marijuanatimeline.html
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/4079668.stm
• Joel Fort, The Pleasure Seekers
• Alfred R. Lindensmith, Addiction and Opiates.
• [W.F. Crafts et al., Intoxicating Drinks and Drugs
• Burton Stevenson (Ed.), The Macmillan Book of Proverbs, p.21
• Alfred A. Lindensmith, The Addict and the Law
• William Shakespear, Second Part of King Henry the Forth, Act IV,
Scene III
• Griffith Edwards, Psychoactive substances, The Listener
• Edward M. Brecher et al., Licit and Illicit Drugs
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