I would nominate the species Ephedra as another candidate for the world’s oldest recreational drug. Pollen of Ephedra altissima was discovered in a 60,000-year-old Neanderthal burial at the ...

1–6 In response to growing concern about the safety of ephedra alkaloids in dietary supplements, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested an independent review of reports of adverse ...

Ephedra seeds found in an ancient burial pit ... Today, ephedrine is now known to ease breathing and as a “vasoconstrictor”—a drug that narrows blood vessels and can reduce some types ...

Afghanistan's drug trade is booming just two years after ... Afghanistan also has the ephedra plant, which is not found in the biggest meth-producing countries: Myanmar and Mexico.

Top enforcement officials said the Afghanistan origins of the drug indicated that it was processed from natural ephedrine extracted from the Ephedra plant that grows wild in the country’s highlands.

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