After all, psychoactive drugs, such as food and other drugs in general, or rather, those having preponderly physiological effect, are part of a set of substances which have the common characteristic of being “ingested”, and thus integrate the history of human food. Moreover, like other goods and products, they are part of the material culture of a people. In a proposal for cultural history of drugs, we must take into account the processes of production, distribution and use, therefore the “economy” of drugs, within a symbolic universe where these practices are discussed, which are “cultural practices” in an environment of “power relations” and key expressions of the tradition of cultural history studies.