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Drinking for 10,000 Years: Intoxication and Civilization: Edward Slingerland

Long Now: Conversations at The Interval

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Is Alcohol the King of Intoxicants?

Canabas has nages. It doesn't lead to violence, and it's physiologically less harmful than alcohol. Canabas is not a social drug for me because of its variable effects on individuals. If you don't know how to hold it in your lungs, you don't get the same dose. We're just to wor too shortly into it to have dopted. So i think they're both wrongBecause the costs are so high that it doesn't make sense that this mistake would be allowed to stand by evolution.

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