Passano i tempi, cambiano i luoghi, mutano le norme. Sostanze psicotrope dall’antichità ai giorni nostri: un uso tra il voluttuario, il sanitario ed il sacro-rituale

Abstract

In this article we are presenting a synthesis of historical, cultural and legal aspects of psychotropic substance, legal and illegal.
We have tried to correlate these legal aspects with the two principal degrees of harm of potential misuse, the classical one of NIDA and that more recent of David Nutt (2007).
It seems that in the conclusions, the choices preferred by the legislators, both in a non direct cause (effect cause) with public health aspects o individual, but with regard to a multitude of other factors such as the right cultural aspects of this population, religion aspects, economic aspects but also ideological aspects and/or ethical moral.