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I should be more clear, I mostly mean alcohol in the time since the industrial revolution, after breakthroughs were made in the yeast technology. Prior to the d

I should be more clear, I mostly mean alcohol in the time since the industrial revolution, after breakthroughs were made in the yeast technology. Prior to the developments, there was a limit to how potent we could brew alcohol before it poisoned the yeast. Although, IPAs are one example of alcohol potency increasing over the last few decades. Perhaps the better comparison to cannabis is nicotine, which has also exploded in potency over the last 50 years. Anecdotally, this trend seems to be ingrained in human nature. We like are drugs and we like them as strong as we can make them.

flextheruler 3y ago
We’ve had liquor for nearly as long as we’ve had alcohol. How has the potency of alcohol products increased? Yes there are stronger IPAs but they’re a small minority of alcohol products who are still well below the alcohol percentages of liquor or wine. Also I don’t see how nicotine product potency has increased either. There’s just salt nicotine vapes now and they often still pale in comparison to strong tobacco in terms of nicotine concentration. And trust me the tobacco are ancestors had was just as strong if not stronger as what we have. We figured out selective breeding of plants a long time ago and tobacco has been openly grown for centuries.