What kind of drugs were there during the EB period ?

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11-16-2007, 13:57
blank

Re: What kind of drugs were there during the EB period ?

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Originally Posted by russia almighty

Don't worry . One of the EB team members has dropped hints he or she is in the brotherhood too.

Only one? I could name you at least 4 :beam:

edit: he or she? There are no female or transsexual members at least to my knowledge :sweatdrop:
11-16-2007, 15:16
blitzkrieg80

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Remember, Blank is an expert, because he DOES come from E-'stone'-ia ~;)
11-16-2007, 17:51
Sakkura

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Remember, Blank is an expert, because he DOES come from E-'stone'-ia ~;)

Hehe. One of the first things Denmark did after the viking age ended was go crusading in Estonia. If we don't get to be wasted, why should they?! But of course the Germans had to come along and ruin it all :wall:
11-16-2007, 19:06
Primative1

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Originally Posted by mAIOR

I think the drugs around that time were Opium based and Cannabis. other than that, the drugs we know(cocain, etc) couldn't exist back then.

I know Juta should be pretty popular among soldiers considering the effects.

Cheers...

I'm sure I read that traces of cocaine, as well as tobacco, has been found in/on Egyptian mummies. Used as part of the mummification process iirc.
11-16-2007, 19:08
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Originally Posted by Sakkura

Hehe. One of the first things Denmark did after the viking age ended was go crusading in Estonia. If we don't get to be wasted, why should they?! But of course the Germans had to come along and ruin it all :wall:

Yeah everyone wants to take our stash - Danes, Russians, Germans, Swedes etc :beam:

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Originally Posted by Primative1

I'm sure I read that traces of cocaine, as well as tobacco, has been found in/on Egyptian mummies. Used as part of the mummification process iirc.

Hehe i also saw that in tv, but they also thought the plants had come from America, so... :whip:
11-16-2007, 19:09
Pharnakes

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Originally Posted by Primative1

I'm sure I read that traces of cocaine, as well as tobacco, has been found in/on Egyptian mummies. Used as part of the mummification process iirc.

But IIRC cocaine comes from Coco, which is a new world plnat, so how is this possible?:inquisitive:
11-16-2007, 19:10
Decimus Attius Arbiter

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I read that Carthaginian quinquireme rowers used cannibis instead of listening to satellite radio like the rest of us.
11-16-2007, 21:11
MarcusAureliusAntoninus

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I doubt the tobbaco anc cocaine on the mummies thing, since tobbaco and cocaine come from the new world and I've never actually seen any of the evidence of the find - only hearsay.

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Don't worry . One of the EB team members has dropped hints he or she is in the brotherhood too.

"There is a time and place for everything, and it is called college." :juggle2:
11-16-2007, 21:38
cmacq

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Your very right, yet there it is.

Actually, the cocaine and tobacco claim was about five or six years ago. At the time it seemed up and up, not from contamination, but I'm always mistrustful. I think from Greek and Roman period mums? Not sure what happened with it since?
11-16-2007, 22:57
sgsandor

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I think ancient peoples just like us are looking for the meaning behind life and just like us some of them probably got into a few catergories
1 became very religious
2 looked for answers via chemical ingestion
3 thought the answers where there somewhere but had other things to worry about (taxes, family)
4 some combination of the other 3
I am sure that if anything was there and had the potential for abuse(from food to cannabis to alcohol) it probably was
As for myself i smoke 3 packs of cigs daily, eat anything i can find, drink way to much, and find new and interesting ways to distract myself from my everyday life (ok not to the extent i just said but you guys are smart and get what i am saying)

I dont think back then anyone cared what you did as long as you stayed in place did your duty(to city-state or whatever) and payed your taxes.

I know that for myself, I could not imgaine how difficult life was for them back them. They did not even have aspirin.
11-16-2007, 23:00
sgsandor

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So besides opium, cannabis, and alcohol and (Juta sp?)

What did they have?

(black lotus like in Conan the Barbarian?)
11-17-2007, 00:08
Tiberius Nero

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There is no evidence in literature of drug use for recreational purposes, the only excessessive abuse of "substances" mentioned as such by moralists of the period is eating one's way to oblivion and drinking insane amounts of wine in order to throw up what one ate previously. That practice seems to have been the equivalent of getting high, and of course it wasn't a practice affordable by most.
11-17-2007, 02:28
Primative1

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Originally Posted by Pharnakes

But IIRC cocaine comes from Coco, which is a new world plnat, so how is this possible?:inquisitive:

Yea, that was the point, that a global trade network was ongoing long before anyone thought possible.
11-17-2007, 03:14
Primative1

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http://www.druglibrary.org/SCHAFFER/Misc/mummies.htm

I dont know how kosher it is so dont blame me if it's crap...
11-19-2007, 03:13
Cyclops

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Makes me wonder what the equivalent of a crack whore back then was .

I have a vague memory of a kind of crony in Republican/Early Imperial Rome depicted in wall paintings. These grinning fools would sit around and accept verbal abuse from whoever would buy them wine. Ancient equvalent of drunk-fighting.

Very very sad institution. Can't find the image on-line, but I have seen it before.

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