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14Part One · History

The End of Part One: What the History Adds Up To

The conclusion of the history part: why coffee, tea and chocolate won, why other plants were banned, and what is changing now.

In this chapter

  • What Changesproducer cooperatives, credit for traditional knowledge, and a Maya beekeepers’ case in Mexico’s Supreme Court

Questions this chapter answers

  • Why did coffee, tea and chocolate become the permitted drinks?

    The answer is in the book →

  • Why did the United States end alcohol prohibition in 1933?

    In the depths of the Depression the treasury needed the excise that alcohol had brought in before the ban.

  • What did the COSMOS trial of cocoa flavanols find?

    Among 21,442 older adults, total cardiovascular events were 10 percent lower, which was not statistically significant; cardiovascular deaths, a secondary measure, were 27 percent lower.

  • What did Maya beekeepers win in Mexico’s Supreme Court?

    The answer is in the book →

Short answers only. Chapter 14 gives the full account, with 10 footnotes to 11 sources.

Read more in the book

Sources

10 footnotes to 11 sources. Full references are in the bibliography.

  1. Constitution of the United States, Amendment XXI. Ratified December 5, 1933.
  2. Okrent, Daniel. Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. New York: Scribner, 2010.
  3. Conselho Nacional de Políticas sobre Drogas (Brazil). Resolução No. 1, de 25 de janeiro de 2010. Diário Oficial da União, January 26, 2010.
  4. Instituto Nacional de Cultura (Peru). Resolución Directoral Nacional No. 836/INC, Lima, June 24, 2008.
  5. COMPASS Pathways. “COMPASS Pathways Receives FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation for Psilocybin Therapy for Treatment-Resistant Depression.” Press release, October 23, 2018.
  6. Usona Institute. “FDA Grants Breakthrough Therapy Designation to Usona Institute’s Psilocybin Program for Major Depressive Disorder.” Press release, November 22, 2019.
  7. Sesso, Howard D., JoAnn E. Manson, Aaron K. Aragaki et al. “Effect of Cocoa Flavanol Supplementation for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Events: The COcoa Supplement and Multivitamin Outcomes Study (COSMOS) Randomized Clinical Trial.” The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 115, no. 6 (2022): 1490–1500. DOI 10.1093/ajcn/nqac055.
  8. Haskell, Crystal F., David O. Kennedy, Anthea L. Milne et al. “The Effects of L-Theanine, Caffeine and Their Combination on Cognition and Mood.” Biological Psychology 77, no. 2 (2008): 113–122. DOI 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2007.09.008.
  9. Negrín Muñoz, Eduardo. “Violación del derecho a la consulta indígena: siembra de soya transgénica en comunidades mayas del estado de Campeche, México.” RICSH Revista Iberoamericana de las Ciencias Sociales y Humanísticas 7, no. 13 (2018): 51–71. DOI 10.23913/ricsh.v7i13.140.
  10. Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación (Mexico), Segunda Sala. Amparo en revisión 499/2015. Decided November 4, 2015.
  11. Goldman Environmental Prize. “Leydy Pech, 2020 Goldman Prize Recipient, North America.” goldmanprize.org/recipient/leydy-pech. Accessed September 21, 2026.