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  1. Jan 2024
    1. where the prohibition of wine has been followed by such enormous excesses in opium, coffee, and tobacco, and is in accordance with the known passion of man for that high state of excitement, which for want of a better name I have called intoxication, a term commonly applied to that particular species of excitement only, which is produced by spirituous drink.

      New substances (including coffee) for higher states of consciousness/excitement — "intoxicating substances"