…Asia, have been used by people in Eurasia at least as far back as the ancient Scythians. We have accounts in Herodotus which make it clear. And in fact, there's a considerable amount of greek archaeological material that shows opium diadems and opium…

…was carried across the land bridge, presumably into North America, and that accounts for the sativa variant and so forth. Herodotus describes, interestingly enough, hemp was used. Marijuana was used for thousands and thousands of years before it was smoked.…

…Lapland shamans above the arctic circle. So the shamanic nature of tobacco was immediately recognized, even in the european context. Herodotus describes marijuana in gestures as a process, somewhat like being in a sweat lodge and then pouring hemp seeds and…

…sum total of a vast number of consciously manipulated variables. So modelers look at human history. They have for a long, long time. Herodotus had a theory of history. Hesiod had a theory of history. Marx, Vico, so forth. I think what moves me to talk…

…were sworn to silence. And literally everyone who was anyone went to Eleusis to experience the mysteries. I mean, Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aeschylus, Euripides, everybody. People would make journeys of thousands of miles. It was the wellspring of greek…