[MR] wow.... just wow

[Bambi TBNL]

Rom the looks of it , a lot of disilled drinks were mnufactured by monesteries and convents in europe for medicinal purposes. Yes whole industire grew put of that but....im just sayin... 
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Date: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:15:57 am
To: "Chris Harrop" <chrshrrp at yahoo.com>,"Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer at lairhaven.com>
Cc: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
From: "David Chessler" <chessler at usa.net>
Subject: Re: [MR] wow....  just wow

The only common one was alcohol in all its guises. Beer and wine were
preferred to water, which was generally unsafe, so most people were probably
half-bagged most of the time by modern standards. Hashish and Opium were known
and were used as medicines. Hashish was "abused" by the Assassin sect in
Arabia (or Persia), but was not apparently used in Europe.

Distilled spirits came in the late middle ages. Most of the accounts I have
read do not mention them. They were probably rare and expensive.

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Received: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:24:36 PM EST
From: Chris Harrop <chrshrrp at yahoo.com>
To: "Roy B. Scherer" <rscherer at lairhaven.com>Cc: atlantia at atlantia.sca.org
Subject: Re: [MR] wow....  just wow

> I wonder what they did about recreational substances in the middle ages. 
Does 
> anyone know?
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