Danny Jones

So like –

People were constantly using drugs.

And there was a law in ancient Rome that he said there was only one law when it came to using drugs.

And that was that you were not allowed to kill people with drugs.

You were not allowed to murder people, which is why Marcus Aurelius was using this drug compound called a theriac.

And the theriac was a concoction of like 11 different North African vipers, their flesh and their venom.

Combined with opium and all kinds of like body bodily fluids.

And he was using this as like a performance enhancing drug.

Because people were trying to assassinate him with poisons.

That's how they assassinated people.

They were using scorpions, poisons, arrows, all like all different kinds of weird things to sneak in and kill him.

So he was drinking this theory act to build up his immune system against the vitamin against the venoms.

And, uh, dude, he, this dude Galen who wrote about this shit, he was talking about giving, he was Marcus Aurelius's physician and he was like, Marcus Aurelius is like, it's getting ridiculous.

It's getting annoying.

I keep having to up his opium dose.

He keeps using more and more fucking opium.

I can't get him off of it.

Oh my God.

And, uh, so Galen, the physician, the, the, the surgeon general of the Roman empire, uh, under Marcus Aurelius, uh, and Nero, I think.

Basically equates to 10 percent of all the Greek literature from antiquity.