Ten Recreational Drugs That Were Surprisingly Common in Antiquity

It’s mostly common knowledge at this point that turn-of-the-century “medicines” often used ingredients such as cocaine, heroin, or even chloroform. With such a lack of drug knowledge on full display in a time period only a century-and-a-half ago, it’s easy to assume that the ancient and classical societies knew even less about recreational drug use. […]

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