The Golden Bough of Drugs. A wealth of information for the reader seeking to make good judgments based upon facts. Volume one covers the Celts, Greece, Rome, Egypt, Iran, India, and more. Escohotado asks the intelligent questions: How long have we been persecuting some users of some drugs? How did so many of the world's major religions begin with drugs? When did inanimate objects become infused with danger and risk? How did the other major civilizations treat drugs? Why is it that the same drugs that were used for millennia without problems suddenly have become dangerous? The reader is in for a voyage.