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Nature & Nurture #45: Dr. Edward Slingerland - The History of Alcohol

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Alcohol Is the King of Intoxicants

Social drinking is that independent of like, social cause. Alcohol's relatively the reason it's the, i call it the king of intoxicants. And you can make it out of almost anything. You know how yeast work? O, people figure that stuff out to trial and error. It has a pretty short half life in our body. So you experience the cognitive effects and then they go away. There's a reason that when you look around the globe, by far the most commonly used chemical intoxicants alcohol.

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