Refers to the area that is south of Market Street (hence, "soma") in San Francisco, CA. Once strictly a gritty industrialneighborhood, the area has maintained the grit while developing into a thriving nightclub and residential/work-live loft area. Was also the location of many failed dot-com companies and is still home to a number of gay bars.
A drug used in ancient Persian and Hindu cultures that was taken to induce a hallucinogenic euphoria. It was used as both a recreational substance and in religious rituals.
Few specifics are known about the drug itself other than it was a plant that was used in it's natural or liquified form.
Most historians believe soma to be an ancient Marijuana, Psychedelic Mushroom, or something in that neighborhood.
Habib: Let's go to the Vedic Temple.
Ishtar: Why? It's not even a day of worship.
Habib: Because man, they just got a batch of good soma.
Ishtar: Oh yeah, we'll be buzzin' like flies after a few hits of that stuff.