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10.03.2025 |
Vastoin yleistä luuloa, kannabista ja oopiumia tuotiin säännöllisesti Roomaan, ja myös juutalaisten kuningas Herodes oli sekaantunut huumekauppaan. Kyllä, tämä oli se Herodes, joka oli Jeesuksen syntymän aikoina.
Herod the Great and the Roman Opium Trade
Where did Herod the Great obtain the wealth needed for his building projects? Why was he able to garner such support from Emperor Augustus? Look no further than the above coin minted early in his reign. The obverse shows a winged caduceus. The caduceus represents trade and is associated with the Roman God Mercury. The reverse is a clear picture of a poppy from which opioids are produced. Yes, Herod the Great was perhaps the greatest of the middlemen in the opium supply to the Roman Empire. Obvious this falls under the economics of the spice trade from Persia, Afghanistan/Pakistan, and India. This trade was very active around the Arabian Peninsula and thru Petra. Herod's mother was Arabic and the Arabic Nabateans negotiated trade from the Eastern Empires as Rome and Parthia/Persia were constantly at war.
One can see on the below coin of Herod the obverse with a military helmet and the likely comet of Julius Caesar above it. This indicates Herod's military authority comes from Rome. The palm branches are symbolic for a Jewish King. The reverse is very interesting. It appears like a poppy is present in a crude extraction device. All parts of the dried poppy plant can be used to extract opium. There appears to be a funnel and basin for plant processing. Note the opium leaves present on the lower helmet.
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Ilmestyskirjakin varoittaa tietyistä lahkoista. Kirkko isät mainitsivat näistä, että lahkoja oli jokaiseen lähtöön. Marcionilla oli pari miljoonaa kannattajaa gnostilaisiin oppeihinsa, oli nikolaiootteja ja kylttejä, joissa juotiin huumorilla terästettyä viiniä. Ja sitten harrastettiin seksiä. Jne.
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Alkoholi ja huumeet ovat aina olleet kysyttyjä tuotteita.
Drugs in ancient Rome were used for a variety of purposes. Cannabis and opium were used as medication to treat conditions such as insomnia or earaches. Roman doctors noticed the addictiveness of these drugs. They wrote that cannabis induced "a warm feeling" and opium was dangerous when diluted. Alcohol was believed to be beneficial when consumed in moderate amounts, yet harmful when consumed in excess. Ancient Roman authors and philosophers, such as Pliny and Seneca, believed that alcohol could cause problems such as frenzy, criminality, tiredness, hypersexuality, decreased sexual potency, and death, and that it would damage the social order.
Cannabis sativa, also known to the Romans as Cannabion, asterion, and Schoinostrophon, was mentioned numerous times in Roman medical literature.[7][8] Roman doctors such as Dioscorides and Galen wrote that cannabis could be used to create strong ropes, repel mosquitos, and that it would decrease sexual activity, cause impotence, and cause nausea.[9][10] When consumed in great quantities cannabis was said to produce a "drying effect". This effect was described as inducing a "warm" feeling in the user. According to Galen, cannabis was served in small cakes for dessert.
Aetius, a Greco-Roman philosopher, described cannabis as "bad tasting" and "headache inducing."[11] It was believed that cannabis could treat gonorrhea.[12] Oribasius, the physician of Emperor Julian, believed that cannabis "harms the head" and that it "creates a warm feeling." Marcellus Empiricus wrote that cannabis, when wrapped around the arm and suspended from the neck with a loom weight and a thread, could stop blood flow.[13] Pliny writes that a decoction of cannabis could be used to treat diarrhea in farm animals, gout, arthritis, and earaches. Pliny may have confused multiple different purposes of or kinds of cannabis
The usage of opium to treat illnesses such as insomnia, pain, coughs, hysteria, and conditions involving the digestive system was popularized by Galen. Ancient doctors were aware of the addictiveness of opium, and how dangerous an overdose was. Greek physicians believed that opium could cause blindness and death. Roman doctors such as Dioscorides believed that Greek doctors were excessively paranoid about opium's risks.
Dioscorides wrote that altering the opium would result in different outcomes. If cut with glaucium, which is a genus of flowers, it would result in saffron opium. If cut with grease, set on fire, and put in a jar, it would result in soft and yellowish-red opium. Adding resin would result in transparent and weaker opium. Both Greek and Roman doctors believed that opium could be used to induce sleep. Dioscorides wrote that to be used as morphine, the leaves and the pods should be boiled, or the sap could be poured on the head. After the fall of Western Rome, opium mostly disappeared from the western world.