By Their Fruits Ye Shall Know Them

A Brief History of Drugs & Authority

Introduction

TL:DR The use of drugs for recreation is as old as time, and the use of drugs for profit has largely driven commerce— but we are only just beginning to understand their impact on religious history.

There are some drugs, like sugar, so thouroughly culturally sanctioned that we don’t even think of them as drugs. Other animals like butterflies, …