HAPPY PLANTS AND LAUGHING WEEDS
Hemp, as illustrated by Greek physician Dioscorides. He recommended it for treating ear pain and suppressing lustful urges
The few references to drug taking in the ancient world that do exist are few and far between. Where they do appear, drugs are mentioned in passing, and focus on medicinal and aspects, passing hastily over any recreational use. Y et there was an international drug trade as far back as 1000 BC, and archaeology has combined with science to clarify a picture that seems to have been carefully obscured by ancient writers and their later translators.