BTW people started cultivating this plant in China and India first, and has been a revered plant, considered divine, by our cultures. It was demonized and castigated by "modern civilization" but now, even "they" see it as the broad-spectrum Medicine as defined in our old texts.

It is also a herb used for recreational indulgence, not as lethal as alcohol. And now of course, it has become an immense economic opportunity as well. But the people who do consume the herb, normally end up seeing through the haze and the propaganda, and forming a new way of looking at things.