• AmbiguousProps
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    147 months ago

    Marijuana has been used by humans for just as long, if not longer:

    Cannabis was attested to around 12 000 years ago near the Altai Mountains in Central Asia, and since then, cannabis seeds have accompanied the migration of nomadic peoples. Records of the medicinal use of cannabis appear before the Common Era in China, Egypt, and Greece (Herodotus), and later in the Roman empire (Pliny the Elder, Dioscorides, Galen). In the 19th century, orientalists like Silvestre de Sacy, and Western physicians coming into contact with Muslim and Indian cultures, like O’Shaughnessy and Moreau de Tours, introduced the medicinal use of cannabis into Europe.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7605027/

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        7 months ago

        That’s just not true, especially for non-european cultures. As the study I linked shows.

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          7 months ago

          Sigh. Age is not the same as extensive use. We’ve been brewing copious amounts of alcohol for an extremely long time. With dare I say near 100% of the population drinking. Ciao.