E2: Drugs

This is section 1 of chapter 1, titled 'Prior To Common Era'. Gork and Void go into Opium, Cannabis, Alcohol and a few other drugs as part of humanity's first exploration into understanding the brain, by affecting their consciousness. Although this isn't direct study of neuroscience, this is the foundation for helping where to begin studying the impact of these various chemicals.

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Sources Cited

 

1) Milestones In Neuroscience/web/ https://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/hist.html
2) History of the poppy- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17152761/
3) 'Hisotrical and Cultural Aspects of Man's Relationship with Addictive Drugs'/Marc-Antoine Crocq/web/ https://www.ncbi/nlm/nih/gov/pmc/articles/PMC3202501/
4) Psilocybe Cubensis – Encyclopedia/web/ https://azarius.net/encyclopedia/26/psilocybe-cubensis/
5) Medical Cannabis: History, Pharmacology, and Implications for the Acute Care Setting/Mary Barna Bridgeman/web/ https://ncbi.nlm/nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5312634/
6) History of Cannbis as a Medicine: A Review/Antonio Waldo Zuardi/web/ https://scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1516-44462006000200015&script=sci_arttext&tiing=pt
7) Burning of the Books (Chinese History)/web/ https://www.britannica.com/topic/burning-of-the-books
8) 'The Burning of the Library of Alexandria'/Preston Chesser/web/ https://ehistory.osu.edu/articles/burning-library-alexandria
9) 'Diego de Landa'/web/ https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diego-de-Landa
10) 'Nymphaea Cults in Ancient Egypt and the New World: A Lesson In Empirical Pharmacology'/Elisabetta Bertol, PhD, Vitorio Fineschi, MD PhD, Steven B Karch, MD, Francesco Mari, PhD, and Irene Riezzo, MD/web/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1079300/