Re:Prehistoric High Times: Early Humans Used Magic Mushrooms...
by wutbrodo on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @02:59PM
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I wonder if this will make it into the books on the Paleo diet.
More seriously, a lot of the conversation around drugs assumed that drugs (from which alcohol is inconsistently excluded) are an unnatural and uncontrollable modern disease. This is also the perspective that predominates in political discussion. The understanding that the low level of drug use "accepted" by modern society is as much a cultural construct as higher levels in the past would go a long way into making our drug policy more sane.
More seriously, a lot of the conversation around drugs assumed that drugs (from which alcohol is inconsistently excluded) are an unnatural and uncontrollable modern disease. This is also the perspective that predominates in political discussion. The understanding that the low level of drug use "accepted" by modern society is as much a cultural construct as higher levels in the past would go a long way into making our drug policy more sane.