Our Ancestors Got High, Too
By Cody Cottier | April 9, 2018 8:00 am
The tales we tell — from Homer and Genesis to your friend’s ninth recounting of that epic rave last summer — are rich with drug use. But studies show our ancestors were chewing, brewing and blazing long before they started to record their intoxicated escapades.
Virtually all human societies use mind-altering substances. What’s more, about 90 percent give drug-induced altered states of consciousness a role in their fundamental belief systems, according to a survey of 488 modern societies. And this isn’t new. Many psychoactive plants we consume today, and those that have fallen out of style, date back thousands of years.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2018/04/09/ancestors-high-drugs/#.WtdOspch2wU
