المخدرات في الحضارات القديمة وموقف الديانات منها: الوثنية، اليهودية، المسيحية أنموذجا

الملخص EN

The drug problem is one of the serious problems in any society, and there are many traces in the heritage of ancient civilizations that indicate man’s knowledge of narcotic substances since those distant times.

Through experience, he eats some of them and squeezes the other.

It seems that man’s tour in the forests in the old days indicated to him about plants with a psychological effect, so he used them in treatment and entered them into temples and used them in his religious rituals.

People used drugs in the past, and the position of religions about them varied between prevention and avoidance, asceticism and moderation, and others I believed in taking happiness and fun And presenting it to the gods to avoid its dangers and contentment, and this is what is found in pagan religions.

As for Judaism and Christianity, it has forbidden its consumption, and this is clear in some texts in the Old and New Testaments.