User blog comment:Madame 12/Why?/@comment-4813333-20120203175846/@comment-1657133-20120204131222

In Ancient Mesopotamia, some guy mixed the things that would make rum, and it started off from there, but Mesopotamian people did not know what it was, and they drank for every meal (including children), and Drugs like Pot, were invented in the Middle Ages when the Vikings (called Berserkers) went to raid, they found this so-called "potion" (drugs) that when someone cut off their arm, and they would not feel it. Also during the "Cowboy" time period around 1860 - 1903 is when basically the "cancer stick" was made, but it was a pipe made by a man who died of it (no kidding) and it caught on. So your question, when drugs were invented, the people did not know what it was, they just thought it helped them. It was like the Black Death, which people did not know what it was either. Wow I sound like my Social Studies teacher.