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In reply to the discussion: How Pharmaceuticals Came To Be The 4th Leading Cause Of Death In America [View all]DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Mother Nature spent at least 3 million years evolving hominids. And the last 300,000 evolving homo sapiens. And we've done it all in total symbiosity with our environment. That is why so many plants appear tailor-made for our physical needs and complaints, because we're tailor-made for each other.
We always easily see how a plant develops symbiotically with other animals in order to help it spread their species far and wide. Well, we're animals too. We're no different from a squirrel which plants excess acorns leaving them to germinate. Or a bird who shits out seeds all over the place from the berries its eaten. That's a 2-fer since that way the seed gets a fertilizer coating to boot!
- Since the plants are good for us, we're good for them too. We're using each other.
Then of course, there's Cannabis:
{on edit: I love Tim too!}