hmmm… historically, coca leaves were holy to the indigenous people of the andes and still play an important cultural role. ok, that’s all I’m gonna argue.
And beserkers chugged a cocktail of psychedelic mushrooms and Odin knows what else, they then went apeshit or went into a dream walk and bashed some Saxons skull in. Drugs have played important roles within various cultures and traditions through the millenia, so long as you aren’t being an ass about it to the cultures it doesn’t seem particularly relevant to what someone outside said traditions does with it.
Getting high as shit has had an important cultural role in most of the world at one point in time or another. Westerners got away from it post-Christendom but even then it’s been a thing basically everywhere at one point or another, unless nothing psychedelic grows there, and even then there are ways to achieve ecstatic states to roughly similar effect through extreme asceticism - if there’s not something to eat or smoke to get there then your shaman might have to starve and dehydrate himself then be suspended in the air through rods run through his chest, but you can get there either way.
Common misconception. Raw coca leaves don’t get you high. Coca leaves are chewed to help alleviate altitude sickness and improve physical performance at high altitudes.
It gets worse. Coca-cola removed the coke because of racism.
oh it gets even worse than that. the coca leaves are shipped to Jersey so the cocaine can be removed before use in the drink! source.
That’s not worse.
Oh, but it gets else. Coca Cola can be used to both clean your toilets AND moisten your cakes!
hmmm… historically, coca leaves were holy to the indigenous people of the andes and still play an important cultural role. ok, that’s all I’m gonna argue.
And beserkers chugged a cocktail of psychedelic mushrooms and Odin knows what else, they then went apeshit or went into a dream walk and bashed some Saxons skull in. Drugs have played important roles within various cultures and traditions through the millenia, so long as you aren’t being an ass about it to the cultures it doesn’t seem particularly relevant to what someone outside said traditions does with it.
Getting high as shit shouldn’t be an important cultural role…
As much as I want it to be.
Getting high as shit has had an important cultural role in most of the world at one point in time or another. Westerners got away from it post-Christendom but even then it’s been a thing basically everywhere at one point or another, unless nothing psychedelic grows there, and even then there are ways to achieve ecstatic states to roughly similar effect through extreme asceticism - if there’s not something to eat or smoke to get there then your shaman might have to starve and dehydrate himself then be suspended in the air through rods run through his chest, but you can get there either way.
Common misconception. Raw coca leaves don’t get you high. Coca leaves are chewed to help alleviate altitude sickness and improve physical performance at high altitudes.
It helps with the high altitude/low oxygen of the mountains.
Better it being holy and treated with respect than however it’s being used in our culture today.