🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <25165@oasys.dt.navy.mil> mulvihil@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Lawrence Mulvihill) writes:
}In dc.general, wls@astro.umd.edu (William L. Sebok) writes:
}>
}>I don't believe this.  Tobacco originated in the Americas and was not present
}>in the Old World before Columbus.  I am not aware of any other source of
}>nicotine other than tobacco.
}
}It was in a wire service report printed in yesterdays Fairfax Journal.

made it to the Post, too.

}The limited information did include a hint that research will be
}done to see if the substances were introduced somehow after death.
}
}In any case, even if nicotine were only available from the Americas,
}there is evidence of Africans in the Americas.
}I don't recall whether or not
}that evidence is available for the earlier
}end of the time period.  Certainly there is evidence for contact
}with the Olmecs.

The cocaine threw them for a loop, too.  Seems that they thought that was a
recent drug...