Drugs!!!

Introduction
Testosterone and Neural Dysfunction
Some insights into the pineal and related bio-chemistry
Bio-chemistry overview and a bit on sleep
Some more thoughts on bipedalism

Could our historical relationship with specific groups of related chemicals be a symptom of internal bio-chemical dysfunction?

Suppose- the traditional/shamanistic quest for 'The Greater Self' 'Healing' etc using specific chemicals has been a response to gradual endocrine failure.

Was there a chronic decline in levels of external and primarily internal biochemical uptake/production that were once essential for optimum function and development?

Would such a scenario shed some light on the current addictive and destructive use of chemicals? Do we have a significant pre-disposition to addiction, could there be clues in our distant evolutionary environment as well as latent pineal function?

This is not in any way a suggestion that the use of powerful chemicals is without potential risk. Rather it is a suggestion that what we really have here is a diagnostic tool kit that hints at specific underlying causation.