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To: Grainne who wrote (35194)	4/18/1999 7:09:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

>I guess I would also maintain that very potent marijuana, and especially hashish, are mild hallucinogens, but not from recent experience, of course!< lol! Is that, uhm, pizza? >this program about the mummies used this to expand on the idea that it was entirely reasonable that the Egyptians used South American cocaine. So I don't believe it is an airtight argument to argue that strong hallucinogens didn't grow in Palestine.< Hey! I saw the same program! Right - cocaine mummies. If I remember, the presence of cocaine in the tissue was not universally accepted! (sloppy grad students laaaate at night - gotta stay awake - lol) So the whole thing is, if you'll excuse my judgment, fringe science. In any case, i wasn't trying to construct an airtight argument that Jesus had no access to hallucinogens. Rather, I was counseling caution and perhaps a retreat from the subjective assertion that the area was swimming in good s***. I would be interested to know if the Jews and neighbors of the era had a drug culture. This falls in the purview of the ethnopharmacologists and their anthropologist colleagues, and I confess I'm too poorly read in the area to be a good target for informed debate :-)