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August 12, 2026

The Kykeon Question: Was the Eleusinian Sacrament a Drug?

Barley, water and mint. In 1978 a banker, the chemist who invented LSD, and a Boston classicist argued there was something else in it — and that the greatest secret of the ancient world was pharmacology.

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