Hypoxia
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Sugar won't be outlawed, even though it's an addictive drug. Y'all know that the colonial Americas were run by druglords, right? Most of the millions of African slaves were brought to sugar plantations, where they died young to feed the sugar addictions of Europeans. Any one Caribbean sugar island was worth more to England than all the American colonies combined. Sugar druglords were the richest guys in the Empire.
The New World's gifts to the Old include: sugar (and rum), nicotine (and other solanaceous alkaloids), cacao+vanilla, coca. and more than a little coffee. Not to mention many hallucinogens. Old World botanicals are mostly spotty and dull in comparison. Cf. Richard Evans Schultes, HALLUCINOGENIC PLANTS: A Golden Guide.
Back to sugar. Try to avoid consumables filled with HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup). Go ahead, just try. Processed foods are usually loaded with HFCS rather than cane or beet or other sugars. HFCS is indeed bad shit. But the maize corn production industry is huge, rich, powerful, far beyond the dreams of tobacco firms.
The US lives on midwest corn and energy. Watch the cycle in Nebraska and Kansas: natural gas pumps feeding fertilizer plants feeding cornfields feeding livestock, a vast interlocking web of money and its fallout. Break that cycle, and consequences follow.
The New World's gifts to the Old include: sugar (and rum), nicotine (and other solanaceous alkaloids), cacao+vanilla, coca. and more than a little coffee. Not to mention many hallucinogens. Old World botanicals are mostly spotty and dull in comparison. Cf. Richard Evans Schultes, HALLUCINOGENIC PLANTS: A Golden Guide.
Back to sugar. Try to avoid consumables filled with HFCS (high-fructose corn syrup). Go ahead, just try. Processed foods are usually loaded with HFCS rather than cane or beet or other sugars. HFCS is indeed bad shit. But the maize corn production industry is huge, rich, powerful, far beyond the dreams of tobacco firms.
The US lives on midwest corn and energy. Watch the cycle in Nebraska and Kansas: natural gas pumps feeding fertilizer plants feeding cornfields feeding livestock, a vast interlocking web of money and its fallout. Break that cycle, and consequences follow.