Discussion»Questions»Health and Wellness» How many thousands of plants do you think people must have experimented with before discovering a nice high from marijuana?
That is by animal instinct the various species 'know' what to feed on. People have a certain amount of instinct and reasonable intelligence but how would anyone simply know they can get a high from a certain plant without experimenting?
This was many many years ago, so I don't remember many details.
I was with some friends who were visiting someone I didn't know. The man had a book called something like "An Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants," which I skimmed through. It had HUNDREDS of entries.
Human beings (and other species) like altered states of consciousness, and some of us will try just about anything to achieve them.
The latest I've heard about is one can get an opioid-like high from ingesting large amounts of anti-diahrreahal drugs like Immodium-AD. Pharmacies in some area have taken to locking up those products because of thefts. This is a very dangerous way to get a high because, as you can imagine, overdosing on anti-diarrhea drugs when one doesn't have diarrhea makes one super constipated.
Interesting.. I take kratom for pain relief which is a mild opioid, it is a powde- source is leaves of a tree grows in south Asian countries and legal to buy non-prescription.