…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…

…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…

…have been used by people in eurasia at least as far back as the ancient scythians. I mean 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 ingestion as a process somewhat like being in a sweat lodge and then pouring hemp seeds and hemp…

…And anyone who was anybody in the graeco roman world experienced this. Plato, Anaximander, Anaximenes, all the dramatists, Aeschylus, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Everybody went to Eleusis and the rules of the game were: one shot. You could only do…

…have been used by people in eurasia at least as far back as the ancient scythians. I mean 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…

…it was carried across the land bridge, presumably into North America 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 one…

…of lapland shamans above the Arctic circle. The shamanic nature of tobacco was immediately recognized, even in the European Context. Herodotus Describes marijuana ingestion as a process somewhat like being in a sweat lodge and then pouring hemp seeds and hemp…

…room in dry weather, and then you would see an electrical discharge through the fur of the cat, that was electricity from Herodotus to Leiden, Essentially 2 000 years. And then someone in a very short time figured out that you could light cities smelt…

…so their heads were totally enclosed and just breathed and breathed. Yeah well they they seem to have been the first. According to Herodotus, they seem to like to combine it with their sweat. Right you're right, get in a little close spaces then throw it…

…in a setting which is probably familiar to most of you, although this story is only told in Pausanias and alluded to in Herodotus. So it is not a story that even classicists are too familiar with. Robert Graves, in his four volume study of Greek…

…you 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…

…and they would stick their head into it and breathe in the smoke or vapors from the hashish or Cannabis Buds. Yes that's in Herodotus. I talk about that in my book food of the gods as well. I think that's the earliest literary mention of Cannabis can…