With the solitary exception of the Eskimos, there isn't a people on Earth who doesn't use psychoactive plants to effect a change in consciousness, and there probably never has been. As for the Eskimos, their exception only proves the rule: historically, Eskimos didn't use psychoactive plants because none of them will grow in the Arctic. {As soon as the white man introduced the Eskimo to fermented grain, he immediately joined the consciousness changers.} What this suggests is that the desire to alter one's experience of consciousness may be universal.
( Michael Pollan )
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