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A Timeline From: steiny@hpcupt1 This is a history of drug use/pr ohibition based on the A ppendix of Ceremonial Chemistry by Thomas Szasz. The book is published by "Doubleday/Anchor" Garden City, New York, 1975. I included his references. I have added several items of interest and I have deleted some things I did not feel were relevant (Szasz documents the parallel course of religious history). All unattributed items (no footnote) are from the book. There are some real jewels in this collection. The entry for 1949 is especially profound. Note how many times governments have banned various drugs. At one time tobacco was illegal in more than a dozen states! Fat lot of good it did. I saw Szasz speak not too long ago, he is a wonderful person, absolutely brilliant and very charming. The book is now in its second edition. c. 5000 B.C. The Sumerians use opium, suggested by the fact that they have an ideogram for it which has been translated as HUL, meaning "joy" or "rejoicing." [Alfred R. Lindesmith, Addiction and Opiates. p. 207] c. 3500 B.C. Earliest historical record of the production of alcohol: the description of a brewery in an Egyptian papyrus. [Joel Fort, The Pleasure Seekers, p. 14] c. 3000 B.C. Approximate date of the supposed origin of the use of tea in China.

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