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I'm sure it didn't help Caligula. It seems a lot of crazy acting emperors could be linked to lead poisoning.

It makes me think what people 50-100 years will think about our diets. They put sugar in everything!

More likely to be the huge amount of plasticizers that have been making their way into our diet, imo.

You know, it would explain a lot of things if, over the last 10 or 20 years, something were slowly driving more and more people crazy...

The Opium epidemic lead to a freaking trade war [1]. How about crack cocaine and other designer drugs, incl. highly potent cannabis, alcohol and cigarettes as factors?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_Wars

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