Timeline for How prevalent were recreational drugs in the ancient world?
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| May 23, 2017 at 23:00 | comment | added | Jeff | My father as kid in the 1930s and/or 1940s was given cocaine for some kind of sinus issue. This was USA by a physician. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 14:52 | comment | added | JimmyJames | @RonJohn [6] is the first link. [7] is the second. Sorry if that wasn't clear. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 14:50 | comment | added | JimmyJames | @RonJohn "There are claims that Queen Victoria took tincture of Cannabis to ease the pain of childbirth but these have been disputed.[6][7]" [7] is this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… | |
| May 23, 2017 at 14:40 | comment | added | RonJohn | @JimmyJames the second link (note 6) is a citation to "A pharmacy of her own: Victorian women and the figure of the opiate by Aikens, Kristina, Ph.D." Apparently you accidentally pasted the wrong link. It happens... | |
| May 23, 2017 at 14:35 | comment | added | JimmyJames | @RonJohn The second link is to an article: Queen Victoria's Cannabis Use: Or, How History Does and Does Not Get Used in Drug Policy Making | |
| May 23, 2017 at 14:27 | comment | added | RonJohn | The BBC link is good, but that wikipedia citation only mention opiates. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 14:20 | comment | added | JimmyJames | @RonJohn BBC. There's also a reference here with citations. | |
| May 23, 2017 at 2:12 | comment | added | RonJohn | @JimmyJames "I read or heard somewhere ..." that dubious claims require citations. :) | |
| May 22, 2017 at 17:03 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | @coteyr I can see the difficulty there. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 15:33 | comment | added | coteyr | @KorvinStarmast biblical references are tricky so I tired to not include them. For example there are many sections of "law" that would today be considered very like our government laws and not really "moral" laws. But there are also sections of "moral" law. Telling the difference and separating the religious and historic is beyond me. But you make a good point none-the-less. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 15:16 | comment | added | JimmyJames | I read or heard somewhere that Queen Victoria used medicinal Cannibus monthly. These don't fall into the right age based on the question but I think you are right that our current understanding of drugs is not how they were thought of in the past I don't think many people realize that Heroin was a common medicine sold by companies like Bayer. | |
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| May 22, 2017 at 14:08 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | It wasn't till about the 20th century that we shifted our thinking into this idea that drug usage was a moral issue, and not a "medical" one Not quite true. Go back to the bible and read up on various passages against drinking too much. Moral guideline, not medicinal. The rest of your answer holds together nicely. There was also a moral and social backlash in China against the opium dens in the 19th century. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 13:57 | comment | added | Richard | It's a very big claim to say that no historical civilisations had any drugs that were used exclusively recreationally. Even so, there's no referrence to exclusivity in the question at all. The point that drugs had legitimate uses is not relevant to their recreational use, even in the modern day. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 3:45 | history | answered | coteyr | CC BY-SA 3.0 |