Timeline for How prevalent were recreational drugs in the ancient world?
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| May 23, 2017 at 8:27 | comment | added | hlovdal | Apropos water was not safe to drink, the introduction of coffee and tea to people's food consumption was a significant health benefit because then people started boiling water before drinking it. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 18:08 | comment | added | MCW♦ | You understate the case; since in general, water was not safe to drink, effectively 100% of the population partook of recreational drugs daily. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 14:10 | comment | added | KorvinStarmast | Beer is not wine, wine is not beer. Otherwise, not a bad answer. FWIW, there is some archeological evidence of wine being made in Eurasia (east of the Black Sea) about 6000 years ago. | |
| May 22, 2017 at 12:05 | comment | added | Denis de Bernardy | If one counts alcohol among recreational drugs, it might be worth adding that educated Romans drank wine with water, on the basis that it was deemed vulgar to get drunk too fast. | |
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| May 22, 2017 at 8:07 | history | answered | Stig Hemmer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |