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That's even a bit debatable. Weed is definitely better now than in the Stone Age (it got stronger when prohibition started coming down hard on it), and they mi
by pmiller2 6y ago
That's even a bit debatable. Weed is definitely better now than in the Stone Age (it got stronger when prohibition started coming down hard on it), and they might have had access to thinks like shrooms, but we have stuff like LSD and MDMA. They also could have had access to coca, which would have produced a nice, mild high by chewing the leaves, without the full on "coked out" feeling. Stone Age people also were able to ferment things, so, alcohol would have been available.
- trhway 6y agoit makes sense to also mention here the absinthe which is arguably responsible if not for all at least for some aspects of the Paris art of the 19th century, and the artemisia (or similar) may have been naturally known and used in the Stone Age - its natural discoverability is evidenced by the fact that it has been part of the folk medicine across the world.
- stryan 6y agoJust a note: Absinthe and the species of artemisia normally used for it's production are entirely non-psychoactive. It's contribution to French Bohemianism are about the same as any other cheap liquor. It does not provide anything close to the the effects of oxygen-deprivation like the article talks about.
- NaturalPhallacy 6y agoIt tastes like licorice and gets you extra drunk due to the sugar and is greenish. That's the complete list of effects of Absinthe besides the unique if not unpleasant taste. source: drank the real deal a couple of times out of curiosity after it was re-legalized in my jurisdiction