• Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 days ago

    Tobacco products were also very popular. Snuff being popular among rich people.

    Coca was used as a drug (documented) in 1568.

    Additionally laudanum and opium we’re also popular, but they aren’t stimulants afaik.

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      I also forgot about mate because I’m a bad American and forgot about my continent’s native stimulants. Tobacco was common but not in the way it was in the 20th century. It was more tasted than inhaled.

      But yeah I did a quick search and it looked like coca wasn’t widely traded with the anglosphere until the 19th century