Lotus eaters

Alongside the medically controlled and related concept of drugs, a second conception exists of drugs as substances that produce depressing but exotic sleep states to which the user becomes easily addicted, to the exclusion of the claims and pleasures of ordinary life. In Homer s Odyssey, Ulysses and his crew visit the Land of the Lotus Eaters, whose inhabitants are addicted to a fruit that, when tasted, puts the user into a sleep in whose dreams all thoughts of home and... 

Tennyson s unambiguous endorsement of opium abuse was expressed in his well-known poem, "The Lotus Eaters" ... 

Nelumbo nucifera, Nymphaea caerulea (Egyptian blue lotus), K ampla water lily) (Nymphaeaceae) [flower] -Egyptian blue lotus sacred, source of creation, depicted in social sexual scenes Odysseus (Ulysses) Land of the Lotus Eaters Pseudoxandra esclerocarpa (Annonaceae) [bark]... 

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