Paul Saladino· MD
it's my sense not living an indigenous tribe is that they're regarded more as sacramental things rather than consistent all the time um or maybe that's the maybe that's not the way that that hasn't been what i've seen yeah again i mean i'm no anthropologist but boy it seems like wherever these things are found like you brought up caffeine so that whole group of xanthines so you know theobromine theophylline caffeine wherever they are found they are like or you know there's that thing people will say that trope like well the native americans i mean whenever you hear that you know like we're in for some you know like well the native americans like 500 nations dude like they're not all doing the same thing but people say the native americans use tobacco ritualistically it's like yeah how many times a day they have a ritual because they're you know it's a highly addictive thing so you know coca it's like they're chewing it every night in the jungle you know happy they're all the time up the nose you know you see this use that you're like wow that's i mean i wouldn't you know what i mean so it does seem like you know is that just the nature of human addiction or is there value there do i am i putting hunter-gatherer groups on too