Briton Dr Norman Kerr, in 1884, asked "Is it a sin, a crime, a vice or a disease?
Walking around, perusing High Society: Mind Altering Drugs in History and Culture, a comprehensive and beautifully curated exhibition of ‘getting out of it’ through the ages, one thing is obvious — this is the second favourite pastime of human beings, after sex. Our desire to alter our consciousness transcends time, class and culture — historically, the only group of people known to anthropology who did not use psychoactive substances, according to Stuart Walton, in his book, Out Of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication, is the Inuit — "for the only good reason that they were the only culture unable to grow anything".
Source: Suzanne Harrington, The Irish Examiner, 09/04/2011
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