sdgathman on Nostr: Tobacco (or nicotine) serves a purpose - it promotes calm focus. Hence the heavy use ...
Tobacco (or nicotine) serves a purpose - it promotes calm focus. Hence the heavy use by philosophers and truck drivers. Nicotine actually protects the brain. Unfortunately, it does so at the expense of heart and arteries. (With or without smoke to damage lungs.)
There is a tiny amount of nicotine in green tea (~12 micrograms / cup). I find this sufficient for my purposes, and avoids the risks associated with larger doses.
On a similar note, coca tea is not addictive, quite healthful, actually essential to high altitude living, and can be brought into the US in "personal quantities" (IANAL). It is when you refine the traces of cocaine from the coca leaves into a deadly white powder that it becomes a problem. (Question: what happens to the cocaine coca-cola company removes from the coca leaves it decocainates?)
There is a tiny amount of nicotine in green tea (~12 micrograms / cup). I find this sufficient for my purposes, and avoids the risks associated with larger doses.
On a similar note, coca tea is not addictive, quite healthful, actually essential to high altitude living, and can be brought into the US in "personal quantities" (IANAL). It is when you refine the traces of cocaine from the coca leaves into a deadly white powder that it becomes a problem. (Question: what happens to the cocaine coca-cola company removes from the coca leaves it decocainates?)