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First Users Of Drugs

There are millions of plants. I'm just wondering who thought "Yeah, this looks like it would be good to smoke" and how did they convince the next guy to try it? How did they communicate? No mail, electricity, etc

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You can say the same thing about which foods can we eat? Which are poisonous and which aren't?

We do know that Incas chewed coca leaves for the effect. That's obviously where the idea to distill it into cocaine started.

Maybe they started by trying to eat the plants, then noticed the effect, then thought of ways to intake it more potently by drying it and smoking it.

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You make a good point. The problem is that say you have a small village of about 15-20.. A man goes out and eats many things he finds. He dies later, but it seems like its hard to identify the causes. Dialectics

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Yes but over tens of thousands of years of trial and error human beings scoped out the landscape very thoroughly.

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Well yeah, 30,000 years and the comparison is unbelievable.

I'm talking about the start, but also the little things that helped facilitate certain things over other things.

Can you imagine the first guy who smoked marijuana, maybe by accident, being near the tobacco plants, maybe going crazy, maybe liking it. The conversation he would be having with those around him at that time would have been such a moment. As well as the reactions of those around him. I wonder (and almost assume) that it would be sold, the only way I can think of it spreading.

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I would assume some caveman tried eating marijuana first, noticed a slight buzz, and then decided smoking it would be a better way to feel the effects.

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Life always finds a way!

Keep on smiling!

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gotta think about it though seriously

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Nah, I let someone else try them first and if they live I will try it too!

Despite what me Nan say, my cousin he is not so useless after all, praise Jesus!

Keep on smiling!

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Chinese were smoking pot thousands of years before jesus

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I'm sure their mothers are very proud!

Keep on smiling!

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Sometimes it is an accident like with Albert Hofmann and LSD. With ayahuasca those indians had to figure out to combine two different plants or else there would be no effect. Sitting in a jungle for thousands of years gives you a lot of time to experiment. Maybe they got half of the recipe from jaguars but how did the jaguars figure it out?

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No one could possibly know since many animals including primates are known to use drugs.

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People in Africa are known to use the same remedies primates use for maladies such as parasites.

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how do you think the word got out to so many people with no communication other than worth of mouth in a time of nomadic social mobility

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Who knows. There’s evidence that the ancient Egyptians were heavy users of psychedelic drugs. The Greeks did too.

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Magic mushrooms?
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