Study suggests Cannabis traded 10, 000 years ago. Evidence for spike in consciousness and civilisation?

[Jumpin]

John2290 said:

Jumpin said:
Cannabis wasn't smoked until about 4500 years ago in China, and not until 3000 years ago in Egypt, by which point civilization had already been around for thousands of years.

Cannabis was used mainly for its fibres up until the modern era. The potency was not very high until selective breeding during the Arabic era.

In addition, there were MANY other more powerful drugs used much more extensively in the past, including opium that was in use around the Mediterranean by 8000 years ago, and psychedelic mushrooms by 38,000 years ago. Psychedelics are much more likely to have impacting human thinking,

New evidence counter argues this, if it was traded it was smoked. Besides evolutionery theoy suggests the simple fact that our brains have canabanoid recepters and are so blatently wired for Cannabis and other drugs suggest humans have done drugs for tens of thousands of years. Remember horse get drunk. Monkeys get drunk and eat many drug inducing plants. Humans were very likely not the first species in our evolutionary line to benifet from cannabisis effects otherwise our more primal part of our brain which predates any date we have mentioned would not be so attuned to it

All mammals get high from cannabis smoke.