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Give pleasure. Alter your consciousness. Are addictive. Are delivered via a small, portable device.

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    Surely drug use is as old as eating. From the first time that you eat a strange berry or funky apple.

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      Fair, but there’s no evidence it became a regular part of human culture before the agricultural revolution. Whereas storytelling seems to be an innate social activity, probably as old as language itself.