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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Myrrh mixed with posca or wine was widely used in many ancient cultures to produce pleasurable feelings and as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic.
— The all-holy Wikipedia

Here in the modern age we forget just how much the diggity-dank (whether cannabis proper or whatever herb grows as a nearby weed) was important in human life and culture. Tobacco and coffee came late in history and heck we've almost forgotten about khat (which is a controlled substance in the US, probably because it would compete with coffee and tobacco if it were well known)

The only reason were not allowed to trip balls through our lives now is because it interferes with our industrial work. Seriously, the industrialists pressured states to restrict drugs because it slowed assembly lines.