When did humans start experimenting with alcohol and drugs?

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When did humans start experimenting with alcohol and drugs?

Humans use thousands of psychoactive compounds to alter their experience of the world. (Image: Joshua Coleman on Unsplash)
Humans use thousands of psychoactive compounds to alter their experience of the world. (Image: Joshua Coleman on Unsplash)

Today, Homo sapiens regularly use psychoactive chemicals to modify the mind – Nicholas R. Longrich asks how did it all begin?

Humans constantly alter the world. We fire fields, turn forests into farms and breed plants and animals. But humans don’t just reshape our external wo