A narcotic in Ottomans: The story of hashish

Hashish is one of the narcotics whose the effect on the central nervous and brain brings people out the assumption that goes off from their borders. However human's desire to exceed their limints nor this drug which use therefore ise age with modern society. This is one of the oldest promblems whose background maybe extends to the first time that human began to access the knowledge of nature in today's societies. In this respect, the present world not only its preferences but also things like that undesired is heir, if hashish is the nearest witness of almost all of its history. Ottomans also has inevitably hand down to their successor such a legancy. They have been acquainted with this through the heterodox groups in the first time that they have begun to develop yet in Anatolia and have preserved necessarily this acquaintance with the all problems that has caused until their last days. From this point, they have utilized from it in order to obtain firstly pleasure and ecstasy and to treat some diseases as a bear of evident "subculture of hashish". While madical use to produce of some primitive drugs, if ecstasy and pleasure includes the expectation of members of the non-Sunni sects and commons. However to use as a drug, rather stimulating substance by definition in Ottomans is much more rather than as a medical. Especially among heretic dervishes has such, in fact they have also been who brought it to Anatolia and spreaded among people. Generally people have also drunk to pleasure it, so that they have even created the places for their habit. Finally, all of these with from its cultivation to domectic or cross-border trade, from the scientific and literary works written about it to its jargon and slang etc. have produced the subculture of hashish in Ottoman, even today's society whose scale is small, but well rounded and marked in terms of both different social layers penetrating and format which these layers have built together. This study aims to reveal the historical adventure with all aspects of this subculture in Ottoman society. Keywords: Ottomans, Esrar, Marijuana in Ottomans, Hashish, Narcotic.