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/^t/The Europeans were probably the last to discover drugs. Firstly, it was used by artists as a source of their inspiration, but not only. Some, among them an English writer Aldous Huxley, treated drugs as a means of expanding our perception. In his quasi-scientific book "The Door of Perception" Huxley described his experiencing of other states of consciousness after taking drugs which allowed him to see the complete new sides of things.