intoxicants

If the person is healthy enough they turn to vices and intoxicants (legal or otherwise) to try to feel something.

My experience of HN screwing up my life isn't a whole lot different from intoxicants screwing up theirs.

Not to mention the fact that the populace has been ingesting intoxicants pretty steadily up until now as well.

They just like to get stoned or high or drunk and go to great lengths to find their intoxicants.

Now, don't know if selfish irresponsible use of intoxicants rises to that level, but the argument can be made.

I suspect that cattle and other livestock far outstrip almonds and intoxicants both in sheer quantity and relative wastefulness.

Business in weapons, business in human beings, business in meat, business in intoxicants, and business in poison.

Many programmers abstain from intoxicants at work, except for the common stimulant caffeine.

People have been taking intoxicants for longer than they have been writing.

Once -- under the influence of intoxicants, most likely -- I came up with a way of dramatically reducing its impact.

Yglesias is simply pointing out a dynamic which he feels may be under-appreciated: the impact of cannabis sales on the purchase and consumption of other intoxicants.

From tales I've heard, those specific ways seem to be chiefly pizza and intoxicants.

Regarding the human condition: "History shows that people have always used intoxicants.

So wait, indulging in intoxicants other than alcohol makes you a "bro"?

As a side note, if you are going to parties and filling up on "other intoxicants" that make you thirst more for water than alcohol, you're not really doing yourself any favors.

(That's a somewhat customized translation of the so called "four noble truths.") One of the techniques involved in Buddhist practice, incidentally, is abstaining from habitual use of alcohol and other intoxicants.

Intoxicants are so woven through most of the societies that have dotted human history that it's hard to believe your question is serious.