The Politics of PaperReference to cannabis and other spiritual drug use is often hidden in art during periods of repression. Stylized hemp leaves surround the angels’ heads, and their halos resemble the cap of the amanita muscaria mushroom in The Third Day of Creation, entrance hall of San Marco painted in Venice, Italy. (Sixth to Seventh Century C.E.)The masses of people, “the commons,” were kept in check through a dual system of fear and enforced ignorance. All learning except the most rudimentary was controlled and strictly regulated by the priests.The commons (about 95% of the people) white widow feminized were forbidden to learn to read or write not even an alphabet and often were punished or put to death for doing so.The people were also forbidden to learn Latin, the language of the Bible. This effectively enabled the few priests who could read to interpret the scriptures any way they pleased for about 1,200 years, until the reformation in Europe, circa 1600.
