Drugs

Drugs Development

By zmckenzie
  • 5000 BCE

    The first drug

    The first drug
    The Sumerians use opium, suggested by the fact that they have an ideogram for it which has been translated as HUL, meaning “joy” or “rejoicing
  • 3500 BCE

    Alchol

    Alchol
    Earliest historical record of the production of alcohol: the description of a brewery in an Egyptian papyrus.
  • 3000 BCE

    Tea

    Tea
    Approximate date of the supposed origin of the use of tea in China.
  • 2500 BCE

    Poppy seeds

    Poppy seeds
    Earlist historical evidence of the eating of poppy seeds among the Lake Dwellers on Switzerland.
  • 800 BCE

    Greek Times

    Greek Times
    Back when the Olympics started, in Greece, people were know to eat exotic meats and drink "magic" potions (herbal infused drinks) in hopes that it makes them perform better. Ancient Greek athletes were naked when they competed, to display their physical prowess and also to pay homage to Zeus by showing him how they had trained their bodies to their physical peak.
  • 300 BCE

    Poppy Juice

    Poppy Juice
    300 B.C. Theophrastus (371-287 B.C.), Greek naturalist and philosopher, records what has remained as the earlies undisputed reference to the use of poppy juice.
  • Dec 1, 1000

    Opium

    Opium
    Opium is widely used in China and the far East.
  • Aug 31, 1493

    Tabacco

    Tabacco
    The use of tobacco is introduced into Europe by Columbus and his crew returning
  • Aug 31, 1500

    Medieval Russian Cure for Drunkness

    Medieval Russian Cure for Drunkness
    A medieval Russian cure for drunkenness consisted in “taking a piece of pork, putting it secretly in a Jew’s bed for nine days, and then giving it to the drunkard in a pulverized form, who will turn away from drinking as a Jew would from pork.”
  • Aug 31, 1525

    Laudanum

    Laudanum
     Paracelsus (1490-1541) introduces laudanum, or tincture of opium, into the practice of medicine.

  • Virginian Tabacco

    Virginian Tabacco
     John Rolf, the husband of the Indian princess Pocahontas, sends the first shipment of Virginia tobacco from Jamestown to England.

  • Penalties, the use of tobacco is prohibited in Bavaria, Saxony, and in Zurich

    Penalties, the use of tobacco is prohibited in Bavaria, Saxony, and in Zurich
    Sultan Murad IV of the Ottoman Empire decreed the death penalty for smoking tobacco ,where ever there Sultan went on his travels or on a military expedition his halting-places were always distinguished by a terrible rise in executions. Even on the battlefield he was fond of surprising men in the act of smoking, he would punish them by beheading, hanging, quartering or crushing their hands and feed nevertheless, in spite of all the horrors and persecution the passion for smoking still persisted

  • “Act for the Encouraging of the Distillation of Brandy and “Act for the Encouraging of the Distillation of Brandy and Spirits from Corn”

    “Act for the Encouraging of the Distillation of Brandy and “Act for the Encouraging of the Distillation of Brandy and Spirits from Corn”
    The “Act for the Encouraging of the Distillation of Brandy and Spirits from Corn” is enacted in England.

  • Smoking

    Smoking
    In Luneberg, Germany, the penalty for smoking (tobacco) is death

  • Tabacco Conviction

    Tabacco Conviction
    In Russia, Czar Michael Federovitch executes anyone on whom tobacco is found. Czar Alexei Mikhailovitch rules that anyone caught with tobacco should be tortured until he gave up the name of the supplier.

  • Liquor Licenses

    Liquor Licenses
    Liquor licenses in Middlesex (England) are granted only to those who “would take oaths of allegiance and of belief in the King’s supremacy over the Church”