What are your favorite drugs? Chances are they match up closely with The Aztecs'. Pulque (An alcohol beverage) and chocolate (caffeine and theobromine) were consumed throughout Pre-Hispanic Central America to connect with the divine.**
The fertility goddess Mayahuel (the Dionysus of Mexico) is still well-represented today with the addition of beer and mescal in the national palate. But Mayahuel's matriarchal status is in danger. A new substance arrived with the Europeans. Like them, it has gone on to conquer. Mexicans are now the world's most avid consumers of soft drinks. Diabetes kills more people every 2 years than the drug war has in the last decade. The government, detecting an epidemic, introduced a sin tax on such beverages in 2014. The effort is proving to be an effective counterbalance to a product that gives the brain a bigger dopamine kick than cocaine. On the summit of a jagged cliff, a temple to the alcohol gods stands exalted high above the town of Tepoztlán. Beside it, a small refreshment stand dishes out drinks to thirsty hikers. Pulque is nowhere to be found and ice cold beer is off the menu; but rows of plastic cups are filled with brown and yellow soda, fizzing like a chorus of praise to the sticky-sweet usurper. **All cultures in history have roughly two socially acceptable drugs. These two drugs often changed. Coffee was illegal during large stretches of time in the Ottoman Empire and Sweden. Alcohol was blacklisted in the U.S. for 13 years, but you could buy opium over the counter for most of the 19th century.
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Katia
4/8/2017 06:18:34 am
Mexico is the unique country where the most popular cause of death is cirrhosis of the liver, other countries mostly die for heart desease, cancer or aids
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Jonathan
4/11/2017 12:16:18 pm
Is that so? I looks like poor little Moldova has a much bigger problem with that http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/cause-of-death/liver-disease/by-country/
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Katia
4/13/2017 02:13:57 pm
Cool site, I stayed up all night clicking) Everything is relative, death from liver desease in Moldova 69,79 persons per 100000 and from heart desease 336,63 persons per 100000, that is moldovanians mostly die from coronary heart desease. I meant that liver desease is the most popular cause of death inside Mexico, I could attach picture, only link) https://yandex.ru/images/search?p=3&text=%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B%20%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D0%B8%20%D0%B2%20%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85%20%D1%81%D1%82%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%85&img_url=http%3A%2F%2Fvsviti.com.ua%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F07%2Fwhich-disease-is-most-likely-to-kill-you.jpg&pos=110&rpt=simage 5/25/2017 10:37:12 am
I would like to see some more updates in the future. I would like to read something on your own impression.
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5/27/2017 03:41:53 am
The distribution of beverages containing a large amount of sugar is relevant not only among the locals, but also among the tourists. This affects the state of everyone.
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