Alpay: "Stoned Again": Stoned Again Opium, prepared from the poppy plant, Papaver somniferum, was in use long before the time of imperial Rome. Evidence from the archeological record places it in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) around 3000 BC. Opium was widely consumed—either by being eaten, dissolved in wine, or inserted in the rectum— for both medical and ritual purposes by the ancient Egyptians and by the Greeks soon thereafter. The Ebers Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian medical text from the year 1552 BC, even recommends opium as an aid to help small children sleep. One method to achieve this was to smear the drug on the nipples of the nursing mother.

Opium, prepared from the poppy plant, Papaver somniferum, was in use long before the time of imperial Rome. Evidence from the archeological record places it in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq) around 3000 BC. Opium was widely consumed—either by being eaten, dissolved in wine, or inserted in the rectum— for both medical and ritual purposes by the ancient Egyptians and by the Greeks soon thereafter. The Ebers Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian medical text from the year 1552 BC, even recommends opium as an aid to help small children sleep. One method to achieve this was to smear the drug on the nipples of the nursing mother.

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