wanting to get high or altered states.

[matine]

Getting high is not a new phenomenon. In the Stone Age people spun around until they fell dizzy on the dirt. Early Christians would flog (whip) themselves until the natural endorphin, or opiate receptors sites that bond with natural brain endorphins, kicked in

[MonkeysWife]

It's funny that you mention this...I was thinking about it recently and through some research found that the beer that the Egyptians drank was called Soma...stupid trivia stuff I guess!

[memily79]

matine, do you know, well i'm sure you know how cool it is to interject all the painful, and desparate posts w/"matine's trivia fun"?  i love this stuff.  my sociology professor constantly talks about the opium days of 1880's and how the stay at home mothers would smoke pipes and pipes of it all day long, dealing w/depression from absent or KIA husbands and/or sons, and even later b/c of addiction and they thought it helped keeped your figure, and made you more energetic.
i, unfortunately, cannot claim ignorance.  i was told what i was getting into.  but, as we all know, telling aint the same as feelin.

[matine]

No, not stupid. It is info. Info. expands your would. The info. here has def. expanded my world.