Honestly? Relatable.
. "Sometimes when people think about drugs, they think it's a modern practice. These results tell a different story."By using a combination of chromatography and mass spectrometry, Guerra-Doce and her team detected the presence of alkaloid substances that have a variety of effects.
Ephedrine, on the other hand, is a powerful stimulant that will send your heart racing, and can be found in certain species of pine shrub. Figuring out why exactly these prehistoric humans were taking these drugs is a difficult question to answer, if not impossible. For all we know, they could've been popping some scopolamine to look at mesmerizing cave paintings in flickering torchlight. But we do have some clues.
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