Is there any traditional culture on earth that does not have some kind of habitual stimulant usage, eg. tea, coffee, qat, coca,...
Is there any traditional culture on earth that does not have some kind of habitual stimulant usage, eg. tea, coffee, qat, coca, cocoa?
And is there any traditional culture that has not discovered alcohol yet?
More generally, is there any traditional culture that has stimulants, depressants, alcohol, or psychedelics available to them, but has chosen not to use them?
Mormons?
How long have Muslims not used alcohol?
Muslims: experts on qat, coffee, and sugar.
The Sumerians who are, granted arguably the first civilization, discovered beer. There is even an argument that most civilizations started in proximity to psylocybin mushrooms.
Hunter Gatherer #1: duuude you know what would be like, so fucked up? what if we settled in one place, started cultivating like shit I don’t know, some grass or something, and harvested its seeds so we could laboriously grind them into powder, mix it with water to form a paste, bake it on rocks over a fire and then eat it for sustenance, drastically lowering our life expectancy with a monotonous diet and back breaking labour that culminates in a civilization based on taxing our efforts to fund a priestly caste that justifies the existence of an aristocracy that raises an army to conquer all of our neighbours??
Hunter Gatherer #2: dude pass me the mushrooms that is some good shit-
no Mormons had “Mormon tea”, brewed from southwestern desert ephedra shrubs