Marijuana and Junkies in the Ottomans - Drunken Drunks of the Sanjak of Dreams

Marijuana and Junkies in the Ottomans - Drunk Drunks of the Sanjak of Dreams Book Description

Drunken Drunkens of the Sanjak of Dreams: Marijuana and Junkies in the Ottomans, deals with the interesting adventure in Anatolia of a unique secret that causes trouble for some and opens the doors of other worlds for others. It is about the fight between marijuana and wine, which is the cause of "watery" drunkenness, and how it became an indispensable part of the rituals of dervishes who wanted to reach God directly. By being introduced to people from all segments of society, we will learn how it turned from a medicine in the hands of doctors to a poison hostile to the mind in the streets, into an indispensable literary motif in the hands of poets and literati, and into income in the eyes of opportunists, and the efforts made by the administration to prevent this, in a detailed, subtle and entertaining way, with all its adventures. presents it to the reader with narration. "Cannabis, which often evokes moral and illegal connotations when its name is mentioned today, differs from the dangerous artificial pleasures created in test tubes of the last few centuries with its unique history woven with legends. Its history, which is difficult to delimit, is full of countless contradictory roles that change from hand to hand. The states [marijuana] it creates are a matter of curiosity even today." In some, it is the courage of the cowards, the joy of the sad, the lust of the impotent, the inspiration of the unimaginative, the resistance of the misfits, the consolation of the vagabonds, the spiritual muscles of others.
instrument of ecstasy for the weak; In some cases, it is outright trouble."

Onur Gezer

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

Number of Pages: 183

Size: 13 x 19.5

First Print Year: 2020

Number of Printings: 1st Edition

Language Turkish