History and Antiquities of the drug, its origins in antiquity, what were the first productions, the why of them, first people with drug problems and everything related to the History and Antiquities of the Drugs.
The drug experience is as old as mankind. It seems be that the poppy was cultivated in Europe during the Stone Age, in Switzerland have found fossils of poppy seeds belonging to the fourth millennium BC.
intoxicating properties of hemp in India were used in some religious ceremonies.
In 600 the Arabs spread the therapeutic virtues of opium, revealing the Chinese opium narcotic property.
drug consumption spread rapidly throughout China and developed the smuggling of opium on a large scale.
early twentieth century appeared in the West opium and hashish. Finally, the drug has spread throughout the world, creating a huge social problem. With the cooperation of organizations like the UN. In 1971 estimated that worldwide there were about 120,000,000 in drug addicts.
hemp cultivation
hemp cultivation refers to China, (about 4000 BC). A medical treatise written in the first century after claims that cannabis taken in excess makes you look monsters but if used over time can communicate with the spirits and lighten the body.
Hemp in India, according to the Atharva Veda gushed when they fell from the sky drops of ambrosia. It is believed that streamlines the mind, providing long life and enhanced sexual desires. In Buddhism held their virtues for 
meditation. In medical applications the plant is used for dry cough, fever and other diseases. The earliest Mesopotamian
hemp produced in the ninth century A. C. and was used as ceremonial incense.
hemp cultivation in Western Europe is very old, in the seventh century A. C. Celts hemp exported throughout the Mediterranean. Filters and medical experts indicate that this culture known as drug use.
Solanaceae Plants
The hallucinogenic nightshades such as henbane, belladonna, and mandrake belong to the Middle and Far East, while in Europe there is great quantity and variety of these drugs. These plants are attributed to phenomena of levitation and great physical prowess. According to the ancient sages were the ancient Druids who learned to master these violent drugs, using them in ceremonial and therapeutic contexts.
America does not know these drugs to the discovery, but if they are native here dataduras and drug snuff queen of the continent, recreational, religious and therapeutic smoked, chewed and drunk from Canada to Patagonia.
Visionary Plants
About
visionary type plants and in Asia there is no clear ancient testimony. Only the shamans of Siberia seem to have always had rituals with psychoactive mushrooms.
In America, dozens of plants known type-century visionary from A. C. mushroom stones appear in Guatemala in Middle America and points for more than a thousand years would continue sculpting. Paintings and sculptures are works related to this group of drugs, one of the more amazing is the mural in Tenochitlan Tepantitla.
Africa native is undoubtedly the iboga, the Fang venerated in ceremonial rituals and its active ingredient belongs to the family of LSD 25.
pure Stimulants
pure stimulants based on caffeine and cocaine, the coca bush is native to the Andes and III century A. C. They are also American guarana and mate on the other side of cocoa (containing
theobromine). In India you get very similar effects due to a drug betel
little known in the West but now consumed by a tenth part of the world population. In China has been used for four or five millennia
tea that contains caffeine and protein and ephedra, a stimulant much more concentrated.
from Africa are from the kola nut and caffeine stimulant kat bush
consumed in Yemen, Somalia and Ethiopia. Arabica coffee is in origin, they are found to occur later
the tenth century AD. Europe and the Middle East are the least exciting areas plant
known in the antiquity.
The effect of these drugs is energetic, helping you eat less and work more.
never to produce trances of possession or travel agents are from the beginning profane use by the rich and the poor taste of necessity. In nature the effect is also that your user is regular recourse to them several times a day.
alcohol producing plants
There are plenty of plants alcohol. For a beer just chew some fruit and then spit
, fermentation of saliva and the plant will produce low-grade alcohol. A. In the 2200
C. beer is recommended as a tonic for women stage of lactation. By 2000 A. C. papyrus was found in a reprimand of a parent to a child that beer is the bane of your soul. But beer and wine are among the treatments preserved considerable Egyptian pharmacopoeia known almost 800 different drugs.
A. In the seventeenth century C. a code of a Babylonian king defends beer drinkers and wine taverns commands that lowering the quality of the drink, a solution very active against the adulteration of a drug.
wine references in the Bible are more like Noah to be stripped and got drunk. The law says is right on socially relevant parties to rush at least one glass of wine, but it is impossible enforce this law being teetotal.
The Old Testament, unlike hard liquor to wine, not referring to wines, beer and wine but loaded with another drug. In Asia Minor there are mixtures such as wine resinate, mixtures such explain some puzzles and news about the banquet as saying that two or three cups was enough small to almost hallucinate.
In India, these drinks are known as Sura means (falsehood, misery and darkness), as in Buddhism alcoholic beverages were not well seen, the Buddhist holy man prefers hemp, while the Brahmin
is completely closed said that such beverages are the principle of isolation absoluta.
En China y Japón son muy afectos al vino de arroz desde siempre.
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