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/^t/The general truth about drugs is that people always liked to take them regardless of the conditions in which they lived and reasons for which drugs were used. Drugs are used because people need a stimulus which temporarily alters their right frame of mind and produces the feeling of enhanced emotional perception of the world, and deeper aesthetic experience. Human brain needs stimuli that activate the whole nervous system. Since alcohol is not very effective activator - it supposedly ravages man's organism and brings about huge hangover - drugs seem to be healthier and more interesting consensus.