<story><title>Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age from human hair test</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31064-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kortex</author><text>&amp;gt; Thus, opium alkaloids were detected in Late Bronze Age containers&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; different hallucinogenic compounds, mainly nicotine, tryptamines and tropane alkaloids have been chemically documented in Prehispanic artefacts from the Americas, and psychoactive compounds of Cannabis in archaeological wooden braziers from China.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The alkaloids ephedrine, atropine and scopolamine were detected, and their concentrations estimated [in human hair]&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The results furnish direct evidence of the consumption of plant drugs and, more interestingly, they reveal the use of multiple psychoactive species.&lt;p&gt;Basically, we have long discovered &amp;quot;drug paraphernalia&amp;quot; and other adjacent materials, suggesting drug use (namely cannabis, tobacco, various psychoactive mushrooms, opium, various stimulants like areca and ephedra, deliriants like Datura, and of course alcohol). But we haven&amp;#x27;t known for sure that these meant the drugs were consumed recreationally&amp;#x2F;medicinally. This gives direct evidence the drugs were in fact consumed deliberately.&lt;p&gt;tl;dr - &lt;i&gt;Homo sapiens&lt;/i&gt; got high.</text></comment>
<story><title>Direct evidence of the use of multiple drugs in Bronze Age from human hair test</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-31064-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>anigbrowl</author><text>I always wonder why nobody has made an argument that drug laws are unconstitutional since the 9th amendment states clearly that rights don&amp;#x27;t need to be enumerated, and there&amp;#x27;s abundant evidence of people making their own drug decisions prior to the existence of the USA.</text></comment>