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🗓️ 20 November 2024
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0:00.0 | Actually about a tenth of all classical literature we have written in Greek before the year 300 is by Galen. |
0:06.0 | He's that prolific. And he writes about everything medical and some things that are not quite sub-medical, |
0:11.0 | like philosophy and things pertaining to medicine. Whether there was recreational use in the ancient world is very controversial, |
0:19.0 | because we just don't know. We don't have any evidence |
0:21.2 | for it. They used to pretty widely in medicinal contexts. And it stands to reason that there must |
0:27.1 | have been some recreational use too, even if hemp has grown widely for rope mostly. Another |
0:35.3 | major claim that Amin makes from reading the texts of Galen and the diaries of Galen |
0:40.6 | and the stuff that he would leave behind is Galen put Marcus Aurelius on various, including |
0:47.4 | Variac, that involved opium, especially later in Marcus's life. |
0:58.5 | And that, I think Amon takes it and says that like meditations, for example, |
1:00.3 | and Stoicism was written with him. |
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1:33.2 | I had to come here, beg for a visa from the employees there, and fly out that night to Paris, |
1:39.7 | from Paris to Algiers. |
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