Philosophy students and drugs

According to a survey made by The Tab ( the student newspaper of the University of Cambridge), the students who do the most drugs are the philosophy ones. This survey was made at 21 British Universities to more than 5,000 students, and it discovered that around the 90% of these students have, at least once, experimented with drugs. Is therefore, any relation between philosophy and drugs?

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Philosophy and drugs.

According to a survey made at 21 British Universities to more than 5,000 students, the ones that study pgilosophy are the ones that do the most drugs: around the 90% of these students have, at least once, experimented with drugs. Is there any relation between philosophy and drugs?

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Greeks and drugs: Drunkenness and the use of hallucinogens related to classical Greek culture


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“Are you crazy unfortunately, and there is no drugs that can heal you, and is not without drugs that you delire “   Euripides, The Bacchae

Drugs are substances that have accompanied humanity since prehistoric times, debased and consecrated, as vehicles of creation or destruction, every culture has consider  them as a nature, a god, a stigma, worship … The ancient Greeks, who lived in the time of Plato in the V century BC,  were no exception to these variants, indicating that they did not consider all such substances as a kind of demonization as has occur in our contemporary culture.

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