> None of the other supposedly less harmful, banned drugs are so ubiquitous You get alcohol when fruit spoils. Our experience with it is quite literally as old

> None of the other supposedly less harmful, banned drugs are so ubiquitous You get alcohol when fruit spoils. Our experience with it is quite literally as old as foraging. This doesn't tell us anything about how harmful or not harmful alcohol is. As far as ubiquity, plant-based substances had to follow migration or trade routes to gain use outside of their native habitats. Alcohol was coextensive with any food .