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Originally posted by wonderwench
Off topic: There is an interesting book, Poisons of the Past, in which the author theorizes that the French Revolution was largely the result of ergot poisoning. The French peasants ate a mainly rye based diet; ergot is a mould which is much like LSD and grows on rye.
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This is reminiscent of the theory that the Roman empire fell due to their heavy use of leaded glass. Like the ergot theory, it is interesting but it oversimplifies the argument and ignores many other historical factors.