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  1. And while some people #escape from it by turning to #psychoactive substances, others may simply ‘drop out of life,’ cutting off social ties and retreating painfully into other worlds.

  2. And while some people #escape from it by turning to #psychoactive substances, others may simply ‘drop out of life,’ cutting off social ties and retreating painfully into other worlds.

  3. And while some people #escape from it by turning to #psychoactive substances, others may simply ‘drop out of life,’ cutting off social ties and retreating painfully into other worlds.

  4. And while some people #escape from it by turning to #psychoactive substances, others may simply ‘drop out of life,’ cutting off social ties and retreating painfully into other worlds.

  5. I was inspired by this, Michael Pollan's review of Coffeeland:

    michaelpollan.com/articles-arc

    Even as a #coffee drinker, I understand that this vastly profitable #psychoactive drug is a key ingredient in the fuel of industrial capitalism's #productivity engines ~ not to mention its engines of #exploitation and #colonialism, both of which are covered in the review. 1/3 🧵

    #capitalism #dhamma #samadhi #insight #desire #suffering #cultural #revolution

  6. I was inspired by this, Michael Pollan's review of Coffeeland:

    michaelpollan.com/articles-arc

    Even as a #coffee drinker, I understand that this vastly profitable #psychoactive drug is a key ingredient in the fuel of industrial capitalism's #productivity engines ~ not to mention its engines of #exploitation and #colonialism, both of which are covered in the review. 1/3 🧵

    #capitalism #dhamma #samadhi #insight #desire #suffering #cultural #revolution

  7. I was inspired by this, Michael Pollan's review of Coffeeland:

    michaelpollan.com/articles-arc

    Even as a #coffee drinker, I understand that this vastly profitable #psychoactive drug is a key ingredient in the fuel of industrial capitalism's #productivity engines ~ not to mention its engines of #exploitation and #colonialism, both of which are covered in the review. 1/3 🧵

    #capitalism #dhamma #samadhi #insight #desire #suffering #cultural #revolution

  8. I was inspired by this, Michael Pollan's review of Coffeeland:

    michaelpollan.com/articles-arc

    Even as a #coffee drinker, I understand that this vastly profitable #psychoactive drug is a key ingredient in the fuel of industrial capitalism's #productivity engines ~ not to mention its engines of #exploitation and #colonialism, both of which are covered in the review. 1/3 🧵

    #capitalism #dhamma #samadhi #insight #desire #suffering #cultural #revolution

  9. I'll never stress enough on the fact that the sheer existence of #psychoactive #drugs (that you cannot just cancel from the universe) requires toward people, drug #education, because

    Educated people won't fry their life over a pill offered by a random hand somewhere

    And I saw that now, the ultimate entry point to this education, the perfect tool that Venn Diagram for Drugs is, now people (#people are awesome) rent a domain name for it and…

    Captions are Wikipedia links

    drugvenn.org

  10. I'll never stress enough on the fact that the sheer existence of #psychoactive #drugs (that you cannot just cancel from the universe) requires toward people, drug #education, because

    Educated people won't fry their life over a pill offered by a random hand somewhere

    And I saw that now, the ultimate entry point to this education, the perfect tool that Venn Diagram for Drugs is, now people (#people are awesome) rent a domain name for it and…

    Captions are Wikipedia links

    drugvenn.org

  11. I'll never stress enough on the fact that the sheer existence of #psychoactive #drugs (that you cannot just cancel from the universe) requires toward people, drug #education, because

    Educated people won't fry their life over a pill offered by a random hand somewhere

    And I saw that now, the ultimate entry point to this education, the perfect tool that Venn Diagram for Drugs is, now people (#people are awesome) rent a domain name for it and…

    Captions are Wikipedia links

    drugvenn.org

  12. I'll never stress enough on the fact that the sheer existence of #psychoactive #drugs (that you cannot just cancel from the universe) requires toward people, drug #education, because

    Educated people won't fry their life over a pill offered by a random hand somewhere

    And I saw that now, the ultimate entry point to this education, the perfect tool that Venn Diagram for Drugs is, now people (#people are awesome) rent a domain name for it and…

    Captions are Wikipedia links

    drugvenn.org

  13. I'll never stress enough on the fact that the sheer existence of #psychoactive #drugs (that you cannot just cancel from the universe) requires toward people, drug #education, because

    Educated people won't fry their life over a pill offered by a random hand somewhere

    And I saw that now, the ultimate entry point to this education, the perfect tool that Venn Diagram for Drugs is, now people (#people are awesome) rent a domain name for it and…

    Captions are Wikipedia links

    drugvenn.org

  14. 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:
    openculture.com/2021/11/the-dr

    #MysteryCults #Rituals #RomanHistory #GreekHistory #AncientHistory #BlueLotus

  15. 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:
    openculture.com/2021/11/the-dr

    #MysteryCults #Rituals #RomanHistory #GreekHistory #AncientHistory #BlueLotus

  16. 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:
    openculture.com/2021/11/the-dr

    #MysteryCults #Rituals #RomanHistory #GreekHistory #AncientHistory #BlueLotus

  17. 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:
    openculture.com/2021/11/the-dr

    #MysteryCults #Rituals #RomanHistory #GreekHistory #AncientHistory #BlueLotus

  18. 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:
    openculture.com/2021/11/the-dr

    #MysteryCults #Rituals #RomanHistory #GreekHistory #AncientHistory #BlueLotus

  19. #Betel nuts have been giving people a buzz for over 4,000 years
    Chewing #betelnuts is a cultural practice in parts of Southeast #Asia. When chewed, these reddish nuts, which are the fruit of the areca palm, release #psychoactive compounds that heighten alertness and energy, promote feelings of euphoria, and help with relaxation. They are usually wrapped in betel leaves with lime paste made from powdered shells or corals, depending on the region.
    arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

  20. #Betel nuts have been giving people a buzz for over 4,000 years
    Chewing #betelnuts is a cultural practice in parts of Southeast #Asia. When chewed, these reddish nuts, which are the fruit of the areca palm, release #psychoactive compounds that heighten alertness and energy, promote feelings of euphoria, and help with relaxation. They are usually wrapped in betel leaves with lime paste made from powdered shells or corals, depending on the region.
    arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

  21. nuts have been giving people a buzz for over 4,000 years
    Chewing is a cultural practice in parts of Southeast . When chewed, these reddish nuts, which are the fruit of the areca palm, release compounds that heighten alertness and energy, promote feelings of euphoria, and help with relaxation. They are usually wrapped in betel leaves with lime paste made from powdered shells or corals, depending on the region.
    arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

  22. #Betel nuts have been giving people a buzz for over 4,000 years
    Chewing #betelnuts is a cultural practice in parts of Southeast #Asia. When chewed, these reddish nuts, which are the fruit of the areca palm, release #psychoactive compounds that heighten alertness and energy, promote feelings of euphoria, and help with relaxation. They are usually wrapped in betel leaves with lime paste made from powdered shells or corals, depending on the region.
    arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

  23. #Betel nuts have been giving people a buzz for over 4,000 years
    Chewing #betelnuts is a cultural practice in parts of Southeast #Asia. When chewed, these reddish nuts, which are the fruit of the areca palm, release #psychoactive compounds that heighten alertness and energy, promote feelings of euphoria, and help with relaxation. They are usually wrapped in betel leaves with lime paste made from powdered shells or corals, depending on the region.
    arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

  24. 31-Jul-2025
    4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing #psychoactive #betelNuts
    New methods make the ‘invisible visible’ to find evidence of deeply rooted cultural practice which otherwise might have been lost in the #archaeological record

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #humans #archaology #anthropology #drugs

  25. 31-Jul-2025
    4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing #psychoactive #betelNuts
    New methods make the ‘invisible visible’ to find evidence of deeply rooted cultural practice which otherwise might have been lost in the #archaeological record

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #humans #archaology #anthropology #drugs

  26. 31-Jul-2025
    4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing #psychoactive #betelNuts
    New methods make the ‘invisible visible’ to find evidence of deeply rooted cultural practice which otherwise might have been lost in the #archaeological record

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #humans #archaology #anthropology #drugs

  27. 31-Jul-2025
    4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing #psychoactive #betelNuts
    New methods make the ‘invisible visible’ to find evidence of deeply rooted cultural practice which otherwise might have been lost in the #archaeological record

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #humans #archaology #anthropology #drugs

  28. 31-Jul-2025
    4,000-year-old teeth record the earliest traces of people chewing #psychoactive #betelNuts
    New methods make the ‘invisible visible’ to find evidence of deeply rooted cultural practice which otherwise might have been lost in the #archaeological record

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #humans #archaology #anthropology #drugs

  29. 𝟰,𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵
    Scientists discover 4,000-year-old evidence of betel nut chewing in ancient Thai teeth, revealing the earliest known human use of this psychoactive plant and opening new windows into prehistoric cultural practices.
    #psychoactive #druguse #Thailand #Asia #psychedelics
    ancient-origins.net/news-histo

  30. 𝟰,𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵
    Scientists discover 4,000-year-old evidence of betel nut chewing in ancient Thai teeth, revealing the earliest known human use of this psychoactive plant and opening new windows into prehistoric cultural practices.
    #psychoactive #druguse #Thailand #Asia #psychedelics
    ancient-origins.net/news-histo

  31. 𝟰,𝟬𝟬𝟬-𝗬𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗢𝗹𝗱 𝗧𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗵 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝗶𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵
    Scientists discover 4,000-year-old evidence of betel nut chewing in ancient Thai teeth, revealing the earliest known human use of this psychoactive plant and opening new windows into prehistoric cultural practices.
    #psychoactive #druguse #Thailand #Asia #psychedelics
    ancient-origins.net/news-histo

  32. europesays.com/uk/306699/ FDA Seeks Schedule I Status for ‘Legal Morphine’ #Abuse #addiction #brain #ChronicPain #DataCollection #epidemic #Health #heel #Medication #opioids #PainManagement #psychoactive #psychotropic #receptors #smoker #Smoking #TobaccoCessation;QuittingTobaccoUse;SmokingCessation #Toxicology;Toxicity;Poisoning;Toxins #U.S.FoodAndDrugAdministration;UnitedStatesFoodAndDrugAdministration;FDA;FoodAndDrugAdministration(FDA);FoodAndDrugAdministration #UK #UnitedKingdom

  33. Natural remedy bests #BigPharma solution for moderate to major depression in humans. “Psilocybin leads to a better overall outcome in the treatment of moderate to severe major depressive disorder (MDD) than the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) escitalopram, results of the first long-term comparison of the two treatments suggest.” #Depression #SSRI #Medications #Psychoactive #Drugs #Psylocibin #Shrooms #Psychiatry #MentalHealth

    medscape.com/viewarticle/psilo

  34. Natural remedy bests #BigPharma solution for moderate to major depression in humans. “Psilocybin leads to a better overall outcome in the treatment of moderate to severe major depressive disorder (MDD) than the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) escitalopram, results of the first long-term comparison of the two treatments suggest.” #Depression #SSRI #Medications #Psychoactive #Drugs #Psylocibin #Shrooms #Psychiatry #MentalHealth

    medscape.com/viewarticle/psilo

  35. Natural remedy bests #BigPharma solution for moderate to major depression in humans. “Psilocybin leads to a better overall outcome in the treatment of moderate to severe major depressive disorder (MDD) than the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) escitalopram, results of the first long-term comparison of the two treatments suggest.” #Depression #SSRI #Medications #Psychoactive #Drugs #Psylocibin #Shrooms #Psychiatry #MentalHealth

    medscape.com/viewarticle/psilo

  36. Natural remedy bests #BigPharma solution for moderate to major depression in humans. “Psilocybin leads to a better overall outcome in the treatment of moderate to severe major depressive disorder (MDD) than the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) escitalopram, results of the first long-term comparison of the two treatments suggest.” #Depression #SSRI #Medications #Psychoactive #Drugs #Psylocibin #Shrooms #Psychiatry #MentalHealth

    medscape.com/viewarticle/psilo

  37. Natural remedy bests #BigPharma solution for moderate to major depression in humans. “Psilocybin leads to a better overall outcome in the treatment of moderate to severe major depressive disorder (MDD) than the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) escitalopram, results of the first long-term comparison of the two treatments suggest.” #Depression #SSRI #Medications #Psychoactive #Drugs #Psylocibin #Shrooms #Psychiatry #MentalHealth

    medscape.com/viewarticle/psilo