Happy Saturday morning, /sci/. Thought I'd try to start a comfy thread about the "stoned ape theory." Throw out whatever memes about broscience or Joe Rogan you want, it's just been on my mind recently.

In my personal experience, when I gave my dog weed in high school (I kind of regret this now, making him an unwilling experiment subject, but hear me out) I noticed he immediately started wandering around the house in a totally different path than normal. He walked around corners he never went to, climbed over or under chairs and furniture, hung out in rooms he usually never visited. Maybe a propagation strategy of psychoactive fauna is to induce "random walks" in the animals that consume them, expanding their range of growth. We also know that an advantage that put sapiens over neanderthals was their propensity to travel long distances. Put two and two together?

Obviously all evo-psych is speculation, but I think it's an interesting idea.