Well, I didn’t intend this to be my first post about Siberia, but I saw this paragraph about 18th century drug use on Clayton Cramer’s Blog and couldn’t resist, ahem, sharing…
It seems that the local tribes had discovered a plant with hallucinogenic properties. The hallucinogen was both rare enough (and thus expensive) and sufficiently strong that even after being passing through the kidneys, some of the hallucinogen remained. There was thus a market for the urine of those who had consumed the planet–and for the urine of those who drank the urine of those who consumed the planet. The hallucinogen remained psychoactive even unto the fourth generation of urine. Will blog ads to generate traffic be the Siberian hallucinogenic urine of our time?
Now all I have to do is find the book, so I can discover the name of this hallucinogen, and how to make a profit out of pissing my life away…
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Nathan 02.21.04 at 2:47 am
I’ve gotta email Clayton back about something. I’ll ask him what the book was…
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