{"id":3109,"date":"2025-07-31T11:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/people-were-getting-high-on-drugs-4000-years-ago\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T11:07:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T11:07:13","slug":"people-were-getting-high-on-drugs-4000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/31\/people-were-getting-high-on-drugs-4000-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"People were getting high on drugs 4,000 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-07-31 11:07:11<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Prehistoric people were getting high on drugs 4,000 years ago.<BR><br \/>\nAncient teeth marks dating back to the Bronze Age show traces of people chewing psychoactive betel nuts, with evidence of &#8220;repeated consumption&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nBetel nut chewing has been practiced in South East Asia for generations and the plants contain compounds that improve alertness, energy, euphoria and relaxation.<BR><br \/>\nChewing betel nuts usually results in dark, reddish-brown to black stained teeth.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Piyawit Moonkham, an expert at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, said: &#8220;This is the earliest direct biomolecular evidence of betel nut use in South East Asia.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Understanding the cultural context of traditional plant use is a larger theme we want to amplify &#8211; psychoactive, medicinal, and ceremonial plants are often dismissed as drugs, but they represent millennia of cultural knowledge, spiritual practice, and community identity.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Archaeological evidence can inform contemporary discussions by honouring the deep cultural heritage behind those practices.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-07-31 11:07:11 Prehistoric people were getting high on drugs 4,000 years ago. Ancient teeth marks dating back to the Bronze Age show traces of people chewing psychoactive betel nuts, with&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3110,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}