tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426187053282004467.post8760455713891460584..comments2023-08-23T00:11:34.071+10:00Comments on The Australian Heroin Diaries: Man, I'm Stoned ... AgeTerry Wrighthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12331435244789111209noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5426187053282004467.post-49189321312094782452008-10-23T19:42:00.000+11:002008-10-23T19:42:00.000+11:00The Swiss Lake Dwellers, circa 5,000BCE, were grwo...The Swiss Lake Dwellers, circa 5,000BCE, were grwoing poppy & hemp, very probably not unaware of uses other than the pretty flowers and strong fibres.<BR/>The really interesting point is that, until the 16thC there is no evidence in the Old World of people smoking drugs - it was the introduction of that bizarre idera with tobacco that changed the mode of getting wrecked.<BR/>The Arab/ME world ate its cannabis as a honied spice known as 'majoum' and the subcontinent of India drank it as 'bhang', a mix of milk, pepper & sugar.<BR/>Opium was only ever eaten, in India & China, until the brits "sent a gunboat" to force the decadent chinese empire to allow the landing of multi ton cargoes of indian grown opium, along with tobacco.<BR/>So if tghere is a world drug probloem it is tobacco, not the old pleasures of the neolithic age.<BR/>Also, another typo Terry - "all these problems that effect everyday Americans" that's "AFFECT"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com