have u ever wondered where drugs started? i know a lot of desiner drugs were intended for getting high. but what about othere really old drugs like mj, opium, and mushrooms? how did the primative people discover thir magical properties? i wonder this all the time. tell me what u guys think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hgdOqwYfbQ"]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hgdOqwYfbQ Here's a short history of MJ I found on youtube. It's quite short, but gives the basics
Mushrooms were apparently well used by many great poets during the Naturalism period of the late 19th century up to the 1940s. Many also used them before that in the Romantic period during the 1700s.
I'm assuming that native American Indians were exploring some edible plants and accidentally stumble upon the peyote in the process. It eventually became incorporated into spiritual ceremony and became part of their culture.
Some of it could be from observing animals that do drugs. Like elephants drinking fermented coconut, or deer eating shrooms. I really can't imagine people discovering alcohol on their own, but then again, some people will try anything.
A lot drug discoveries likely happened by accident, eating something one didn't mean to eat, etc. Like Hoffman accidently dropping a drop of LSD on his hand.
Mushrooms are in fact used since prehistory. Many ancient civilizations were having a religion based on mushroom worshiping. Evidences found at the ancient Catal Huyuk site and the Tassili-N-Asser plateau (just to name a few) dated several milleniums BC make no doubt about it. Same for MJ and opium, which has been used in Asia and middle east for milleniums before spreading worldwide. I recall an article in the newspaper that I read about a year ago in which they said archeologists found in China a funeral monument of an ancient priest with different jars all around him containing offerings, and in one of those jar there was some MJ. Carbon prints dated it around 2800 BC. In short, human beings have a longer history of drug use that we imagine.
Its been theorized that mushrooms actually played a part in our evolution as they were incorporated into a normal part of the diet of people living in Africa in prehistoric times.
Apparently Jesus liked his weed, thanks to Moses; http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/cc11/christ.html
sects of Judaism were known for worshiping the mushroom and using it in ceremonies, and some theorize that the manna in the bible is actually shrooms (this theory is not widely accepted, but I like it).
I didn't know that Duck, thanks for sharing. I've got some reading to do. That article talks about how "calamus" (sugar kane) in the bible was a mistranslation of "kaneh-bosm" (cannabis).
the first designer drug was ayahuasca, the properties of which are largely inactive by themselves. It has been used for at least a few thousand years. As they said, mushrooms have been used a long time. The mayans and Aztecs used Morning glory species in their rituals, as well as bufotenine i believe.