#opium — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #opium, aggregated by home.social.
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#Reels served in #infinite #scrolling powered by #algorithms are the #opium of the century.
A tax should be imposed, as with #alcohol and legalized #drugs .
Additionally, #social service providers using #algorithms should be required to provide users with #data and access to the #algorithm (even without disclosing weights\source code) so that users can effectively test for #bias.
(Cover images, generated respectively with #ChatGPT, #mistral and #Gemini with the post as a prompt)
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#Reels served in #infinite #scrolling powered by #algorithms are the #opium of the century.
A tax should be imposed, as with #alcohol and legalized #drugs .
Additionally, #social service providers using #algorithms should be required to provide users with #data and access to the #algorithm (even without disclosing weights\source code) so that users can effectively test for #bias.
(Cover images, generated respectively with #ChatGPT, #mistral and #Gemini with the post as a prompt)
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#Reels served in #infinite #scrolling powered by #algorithms are the #opium of the century.
A tax should be imposed, as with #alcohol and legalized #drugs .
Additionally, #social service providers using #algorithms should be required to provide users with #data and access to the #algorithm (even without disclosing weights\source code) so that users can effectively test for #bias.
(Cover images, generated respectively with #ChatGPT, #mistral and #Gemini with the post as a prompt)
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#Reels served in #infinite #scrolling powered by #algorithms are the #opium of the century.
A tax should be imposed, as with #alcohol and legalized #drugs .
Additionally, #social service providers using #algorithms should be required to provide users with #data and access to the #algorithm (even without disclosing weights\source code) so that users can effectively test for #bias.
(Cover images, generated respectively with #ChatGPT, #mistral and #Gemini with the post as a prompt)
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#Reels served in #infinite #scrolling powered by #algorithms are the #opium of the century.
A tax should be imposed, as with #alcohol and legalized #drugs .
Additionally, #social service providers using #algorithms should be required to provide users with #data and access to the #algorithm (even without disclosing weights\source code) so that users can effectively test for #bias.
(Cover images, generated respectively with #ChatGPT, #mistral and #Gemini with the post as a prompt)
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"Mm, I sure hope no one tries some of this delicious opium I have crates and crates of, ha ha!"
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"Mm, I sure hope no one tries some of this delicious opium I have crates and crates of, ha ha!"
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"Mm, I sure hope no one tries some of this delicious opium I have crates and crates of, ha ha!"
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"Mm, I sure hope no one tries some of this delicious opium I have crates and crates of, ha ha!"
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"Mm, I sure hope no one tries some of this delicious opium I have crates and crates of, ha ha!"
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L'ange Corse tome 2 - Opium - Critiques - 1001BD.com https://www.1001bd.com/index.php?/ecriturecritiques/lange-corse-tome-2-opium-r6214/ Note : 3.5/5 @futuropolis #bd #aventure #corse #opium #indochine
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L'ange Corse tome 2 - Opium - Critiques - 1001BD.com https://www.1001bd.com/index.php?/ecriturecritiques/lange-corse-tome-2-opium-r6214/ Note : 3.5/5 @futuropolis #bd #aventure #corse #opium #indochine
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Ett bilbatteri och en luftburk i motorrummet var smuggelgömma för 1 kilo metamfetamin och 600 gram opium. Men en uppmärksam tullinspektör avslöjade smugglingsförsöket. Två män har åtalats vid Malmö tingsrätt misstänkta för grov narkotikasmuggling på grund av detta.
https://blog.zaramis.se/2026/04/14/manipulerat-bilbatteri-dolde-smuggelgomma/ -
Ett bilbatteri och en luftburk i motorrummet var smuggelgömma för 1 kilo metamfetamin och 600 gram opium. Men en uppmärksam tullinspektör avslöjade smugglingsförsöket. Två män har åtalats vid Malmö tingsrätt misstänkta för grov narkotikasmuggling på grund av detta.
https://blog.zaramis.se/2026/04/14/manipulerat-bilbatteri-dolde-smuggelgomma/ -
Les traités inégaux avec la Chine
Par Xavier Lacroix
Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de l’Europe
https://ehne.fr/fr/encyclopedie/th%C3%A9matiques/relations-internationales/l%E2%80%99europe-et-la-r%C3%A9gulation-juridique-des-relations-internationales/les-trait%C3%A9s-in%C3%A9gaux-avec-la-chine
#encyclopédie #numérique #Europe #Chine #histoire #impérialisme #commerce #guerre #opium #concessions #traité #international -
Les traités inégaux avec la Chine
Par Xavier Lacroix
Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de l’Europe
https://ehne.fr/fr/encyclopedie/th%C3%A9matiques/relations-internationales/l%E2%80%99europe-et-la-r%C3%A9gulation-juridique-des-relations-internationales/les-trait%C3%A9s-in%C3%A9gaux-avec-la-chine
#encyclopédie #numérique #Europe #Chine #histoire #impérialisme #commerce #guerre #opium #concessions #traité #international -
Les traités inégaux avec la Chine
Par Xavier Lacroix
Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de l’Europe
https://ehne.fr/fr/encyclopedie/th%C3%A9matiques/relations-internationales/l%E2%80%99europe-et-la-r%C3%A9gulation-juridique-des-relations-internationales/les-trait%C3%A9s-in%C3%A9gaux-avec-la-chine
#encyclopédie #numérique #Europe #Chine #histoire #impérialisme #commerce #guerre #opium #concessions #traité #international -
Les traités inégaux avec la Chine
Par Xavier Lacroix
Encyclopédie d’histoire numérique de l’Europe
https://ehne.fr/fr/encyclopedie/th%C3%A9matiques/relations-internationales/l%E2%80%99europe-et-la-r%C3%A9gulation-juridique-des-relations-internationales/les-trait%C3%A9s-in%C3%A9gaux-avec-la-chine
#encyclopédie #numérique #Europe #Chine #histoire #impérialisme #commerce #guerre #opium #concessions #traité #international -
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-> le gouvernement de Thiers renforce son contrôle sur Paris : nomme des préfets pour diriger la ville et éviter ainsi nouvelle insurrection.
https://archives.paris.fr/offre-culturelle/expositions-virtuelles/la-commune-de-paris
- usine #sucre Darboussier (cf 1869) plus gros employeur Guadeloupe = 700 ouvriers/esclaves = exploitation industrielle prolonge esclavagisme (cf 1885).
- Empire Chine sous les Qing affaiblis par guerres coloniales #opium des Empire UK/France : province du Hunan -> ...
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tbf I'd probably need some opium in that situation too
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tbf I'd probably need some opium in that situation too
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TRADE IMBALANCE, VERY UNFAIR, WOW
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Cutting edge 19th century medicine
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1813586/cutting-edge-19th-century-medicine
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From FB Philisophical thoughts: #marx
The statement that #religion is “the #opium of the people” is one of the most frequently quoted — and most frequently misunderstood — lines in modern #philosophy. It is often treated as a blunt declaration that religion is the primary cause of society’s problems, or that it is simply a delusion to be mocked or eliminated. But in context, the claim is considerably more nuanced.
When Marx wrote those words in 1844, he was engaged in a broader critique of social and economic conditions in Europe. The full passage describes religion as “the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.” That framing changes the tone entirely. Rather than a crude dismissal, the description is almost empathetic. Religion is portrayed as a response to suffering — an expression of real distress.
To grasp the metaphor properly, it helps to understand what “opium” signified in the nineteenth century. It was widely used as a painkiller. Opium soothed physical agony; it dulled suffering. It did not create the wound. The metaphor therefore implies two things at once: religion provides genuine comfort, and it can also function as a palliative that makes enduring harsh conditions more bearable without addressing their underlying causes.
The core of the argument is structural. Economic exploitation, alienation, and social inequality generate conditions of misery and insecurity. Within such a world, religion offers hope, meaning, and the promise of justice beyond present circumstances. It can give dignity to suffering and moral coherence to chaos. In this sense, religion is not the origin of oppression; it arises within oppressive conditions.
The critique lies in what follows from that insight. If religion consoles people within unjust systems, it may also stabilize those systems by redirecting attention away from material transformation. If suffering is interpreted as part of a divine plan, or if justice is deferred to an afterlife, the urgency to reform earthly arrangements can diminish. Religion becomes both solace and sedation.
Importantly, the argument does not treat believers as irrational. On the contrary, religious belief is seen as understandable — even rational — given the social realities people inhabit. It expresses a longing for justice, community, and meaning. The very existence of such longing signals deficiencies in the social order. The promise of a better world reflects dissatisfaction with the present one.
The ultimate aim, therefore, is not simply to remove belief but to transform the conditions that make such belief necessary as compensation. Abolishing illusions, in this framework, requires abolishing the suffering that gives rise to them. The target is not faith in isolation but the economic structures that produce alienation and deprivation.
Reducing the argument to a slogan about religion being “the cause of everything wrong” misses the philosophical depth of the critique. The focus is not theological but material. Religion is part of the superstructure of society — shaped by and intertwined with its economic base. To attack religion without confronting economic injustice would be to mistake symptom for source.
Seen in this light, the famous line is less an insult than a diagnosis. It identifies religion as a complex social phenomenon: a protest against suffering, a comfort within suffering, and sometimes a force that inadvertently perpetuates suffering. The power of the statement lies in that tension. -
Musical Interlude: OK, here's something to listen to while you do other stuff. Classical music isn't necessarily staid; this symphony is pretty intense.
It depicts the hallucinations of a man who's taken opium to deal with unrequited love. The first movement is reflective of his passions; the second, a vision of a ball, the third, a scene in the country where he realizes his love is not returned; the fourth is a march to the scaffold (you can hear the guillotine blade falling), and the last is a dream of a witch's sabbath, with his love taking part. It's fun stuff!
"Symphonie Fantastique," composed by Hector Berlioz, performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgXW-57UDMc
#MusicalInterlude #ClassicalMusic #HectorBerlioz #Opium #Visions #GothicMusic
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Musical Interlude: OK, here's something to listen to while you do other stuff. Classical music isn't necessarily staid; this symphony is pretty intense.
It depicts the hallucinations of a man who's taken opium to deal with unrequited love. The first movement is reflective of his passions; the second, a vision of a ball, the third, a scene in the country where he realizes his love is not returned; the fourth is a march to the scaffold (you can hear the guillotine blade falling), and the last is a dream of a witch's sabbath, with his love taking part. It's fun stuff!
"Symphonie Fantastique," composed by Hector Berlioz, performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgXW-57UDMc
#MusicalInterlude #ClassicalMusic #HectorBerlioz #Opium #Visions #GothicMusic
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Musical Interlude: OK, here's something to listen to while you do other stuff. Classical music isn't necessarily staid; this symphony is pretty intense.
It depicts the hallucinations of a man who's taken opium to deal with unrequited love. The first movement is reflective of his passions; the second, a vision of a ball, the third, a scene in the country where he realizes his love is not returned; the fourth is a march to the scaffold (you can hear the guillotine blade falling), and the last is a dream of a witch's sabbath, with his love taking part. It's fun stuff!
"Symphonie Fantastique," composed by Hector Berlioz, performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgXW-57UDMc
#MusicalInterlude #ClassicalMusic #HectorBerlioz #Opium #Visions #GothicMusic
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Musical Interlude: OK, here's something to listen to while you do other stuff. Classical music isn't necessarily staid; this symphony is pretty intense.
It depicts the hallucinations of a man who's taken opium to deal with unrequited love. The first movement is reflective of his passions; the second, a vision of a ball, the third, a scene in the country where he realizes his love is not returned; the fourth is a march to the scaffold (you can hear the guillotine blade falling), and the last is a dream of a witch's sabbath, with his love taking part. It's fun stuff!
"Symphonie Fantastique," composed by Hector Berlioz, performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgXW-57UDMc
#MusicalInterlude #ClassicalMusic #HectorBerlioz #Opium #Visions #GothicMusic
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Musical Interlude: OK, here's something to listen to while you do other stuff. Classical music isn't necessarily staid; this symphony is pretty intense.
It depicts the hallucinations of a man who's taken opium to deal with unrequited love. The first movement is reflective of his passions; the second, a vision of a ball, the third, a scene in the country where he realizes his love is not returned; the fourth is a march to the scaffold (you can hear the guillotine blade falling), and the last is a dream of a witch's sabbath, with his love taking part. It's fun stuff!
"Symphonie Fantastique," composed by Hector Berlioz, performed by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgXW-57UDMc
#MusicalInterlude #ClassicalMusic #HectorBerlioz #Opium #Visions #GothicMusic
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Drug-Checking in München: Fehlende Maßnahmen gefährden Drogenkonsumenten und deren Gesundheit
Drogenabhängige Menschen sind im Wahlkampf wie im Rath…
#Muenchen #Munchen #Munich #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #München #atmen #Bayern #drama #Drogen #Drug.Drug-Checking #Experte #Germany #Kokain #Krankheit #Metamphetamin #Opiate #Opium #Polizei #spritzen #Strecken #Studien #Tabletten #Tod #Top-Meldungen
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‘Significant’ theft of toxic poppies could cause death, Tasmanian authorities warn
Tasmania’s Health Department is warning of the danger of consuming “life-threatening” poppy capsules, as police respond to the…
#NewsBeep #News #Australia #AU #codeine #morphine #opium #oxy #oxycontin #Poppies #poppy #thebaine
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/413052/ -
Opium References in Popular Culture, the 2026 List
https://chinarhyming.com/2026/01/02/opium-references-in-popular-culture-the-2026-list/
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(7/8) ... disparition progressives des Salons et de leurs influences politico-intellectuelle -> échanges se font au Parlement et la presse libéralisée devient canal de #communication #politique principal
- Guerre franco-chinoise : début (cf 10e 16e 17e siècle + 18.. #opium 1885 1910 2025).
- Empire de Russie : assassinat de l'Empereur Alexandre II (cf 1855) -> Trône son fils conservateur, Alexandre III = persécutions ...#year1881 #climat #anthropocene #climate #histoire #climatechange
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(7/8) ... disparition progressives des Salons et de leurs influences politico-intellectuelle -> échanges se font au Parlement et la presse libéralisée devient canal de #communication #politique principal
- Guerre franco-chinoise : début (cf 10e 16e 17e siècle + 18.. #opium 1885 1910 2025).
- Empire de Russie : assassinat de l'Empereur Alexandre II (cf 1855) -> Trône son fils conservateur, Alexandre III = persécutions ...#year1881 #climat #anthropocene #climate #histoire #climatechange
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(7/8) ... disparition progressives des Salons et de leurs influences politico-intellectuelle -> échanges se font au Parlement et la presse libéralisée devient canal de #communication #politique principal
- Guerre franco-chinoise : début (cf 10e 16e 17e siècle + 18.. #opium 1885 1910 2025).
- Empire de Russie : assassinat de l'Empereur Alexandre II (cf 1855) -> Trône son fils conservateur, Alexandre III = persécutions ...#year1881 #climat #anthropocene #climate #histoire #climatechange
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(7/8) ... disparition progressives des Salons et de leurs influences politico-intellectuelle -> échanges se font au Parlement et la presse libéralisée devient canal de #communication #politique principal
- Guerre franco-chinoise : début (cf 10e 16e 17e siècle + 18.. #opium 1885 1910 2025).
- Empire de Russie : assassinat de l'Empereur Alexandre II (cf 1855) -> Trône son fils conservateur, Alexandre III = persécutions ...#year1881 #climat #anthropocene #climate #histoire #climatechange
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(7/8) ... disparition progressives des Salons et de leurs influences politico-intellectuelle -> échanges se font au Parlement et la presse libéralisée devient canal de #communication #politique principal
- Guerre franco-chinoise : début (cf 10e 16e 17e siècle + 18.. #opium 1885 1910 2025).
- Empire de Russie : assassinat de l'Empereur Alexandre II (cf 1855) -> Trône son fils conservateur, Alexandre III = persécutions ...#year1881 #climat #anthropocene #climate #histoire #climatechange
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A Eunuch's Dream by Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, 1874, France
Context: This painting, inspired by Charles Montesquieu’s Persian Letters (published in 1721), depicts a eunuch who wanted to marry a harem slave. He experienced a vision of her while smoking his opium pipe, but her little companion holding a knife dripping with blood reminds us that the eunuch’s anatomy precludes the fulfillment of his dream. The outline of a hand next to the signature is a khamsa, a symbol used to ward off evil.
https://quokk.au/c/historygallery/p/508331/a-eunuch-s-dream-by-jean-lecomte-du-nouy-1874-france
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A Eunuch's Dream by Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, 1874, France
Context: This painting, inspired by Charles Montesquieu’s Persian Letters (published in 1721), depicts a eunuch who wanted to marry a harem slave. He experienced a vision of her while smoking his opium pipe, but her little companion holding a knife dripping with blood reminds us that the eunuch’s anatomy precludes the fulfillment of his dream. The outline of a hand next to the signature is a khamsa, a symbol used to ward off evil.
https://quokk.au/c/historygallery/p/508331/a-eunuch-s-dream-by-jean-lecomte-du-nouy-1874-france
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A Eunuch's Dream by Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ, 1874, France
Context: This painting, inspired by Charles Montesquieu’s Persian Letters (published in 1721), depicts a eunuch who wanted to marry a harem slave. He experienced a vision of her while smoking his opium pipe, but her little companion holding a knife dripping with blood reminds us that the eunuch’s anatomy precludes the fulfillment of his dream. The outline of a hand next to the signature is a khamsa, a symbol used to ward off evil.
https://quokk.au/c/historygallery/p/508331/a-eunuch-s-dream-by-jean-lecomte-du-nouy-1874-france
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Myanmar’s opium poppy cultivation has hit a decade-record level, the U.N. warned Wednesday, with early indications its heroin output is now being trafficked to Western markets. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/03/asia-pacific/opium-poppy-farming-war-myanmar/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #myanmar #opium #drugs
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Myanmar’s opium boom explodes to decade high amid raging civil war https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/myanmar-opium-cultivation-highest-decade-civil-war-unodc-fl2vvxny?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Myanmar #Opium #GoldenTriangle #UNODC #Heroin
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Myanmar’s opium boom explodes to decade high amid raging civil war https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/myanmar-opium-cultivation-highest-decade-civil-war-unodc-fl2vvxny?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Myanmar #Opium #GoldenTriangle #UNODC #Heroin
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Myanmar’s opium boom explodes to decade high amid raging civil war https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/myanmar-opium-cultivation-highest-decade-civil-war-unodc-fl2vvxny?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Myanmar #Opium #GoldenTriangle #UNODC #Heroin
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The Drugs Used by the #AncientGreeks and #Romans
November 26th, 2021
"Many of us living in the parts of the world where marijuana has recently been legalized may regard ourselves as partaking of a highly modern pleasure. And given the ever-increasing sophistication of the growing and processing techniques that underlie what has become a formidable #cannabis industry, perhaps, on some level, we are. But as intellectually avid enthusiasts of #psychoactive substances won’t hesitate to tell you, their use stretches farther back in time than history itself. 'For as long as there has been civilization, there have been #MindAlteringDrugs,' writes Science’s Andrew Lawler. But was anyone using them in the predecessors to western civilization as we know it today?
"For quite some time, scholars believed that unlike, say, Mesoamerica or north Africa, 'the ancient Near East had seemed curiously drug-free.' But now, 'new techniques for analyzing residues in excavated jars and identifying tiny amounts of plant material suggest that ancient Near Easterners indulged in a range of #psychoactive substances.'
"The latest evidence suggests that, already three millennia ago, 'drugs like cannabis had arrived in #Mesopotamia, while people from #Turkey to #Egypt experimented with local substances such as blue water lily.' That these habits seem to have continued in ancient Greece and Rome is suggested by archaeological evidence summarized in the video above.
"In 2019, archaeologists unearthed a few precious artifacts from a fourth-century Scythian burial mound near Stavropol in Russia. There were 'golden armbands, golden cups, a heavy gold ring, and the greatest treasure of all, two spectacular golden vessels,' says narrator Garrett Ryan, who earned a PhD in Greek and Roman History from the University of Michigan. The interiors of those last
'were coated with a sticky black residue,' confirmed in the lab to be #opium with traces of #marijuana. 'The #Scythians, in other words, got high' — as did 'their Greek and Roman neighbors.' Ryan, author of Naked Statues, Fat Gladiators, and War Elephants: Frequently Asked Questions about the Ancient Greeks and Romans, goes on to make intriguing connections between scattered but relevant pieces of archaeological and textual evidence. We know that some of our civilizational forebears got high; how many, and how high, are questions for future scholastic inquiry."Source:
https://www.openculture.com/2021/11/the-drugs-used-by-the-ancient-greeks-and-romans.html#MysteryCults #Rituals #RomanHistory #GreekHistory #AncientHistory #BlueLotus
