Inebriantia: Difference between revisions

The '''Inebriantia''' are the medicines, materials, and methods by which human beings have, for as long as there have been human beings, sought to alter waking consciousness into something heavier, softer, and slower. ''Inebriantia'' is the name Dale Pendell gave to this oldest and most extensively practiced of pharmacopoeias in the first volume of his ''Pharmako'' trilogy.<ref name="poeia">Pendell D. ''[[Pharmako/Poeia|Pharmako/Poeia: Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft]]''. San Francisco: Mercury House; 1995.</ref> The anchor of the class is alcohol, in its two great families of fermented beverages and distilled spirits, but Pendell's grouping reaches further: ether, the inhaled fuel and solvent vapours of the industrial era, and the small number of other materials that share the inebriant's particular signature of lowered inhibition, slowed motor function, social loosening, eventual stupor.