Yeah Wikipedia tells me one of the oldest uses of "stoned" in print was Kerouac's On the Road, "I had finished the wine and I was proper stoned"
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Weirdly enough in the old school days "stone" was a transitive verb Hal Ellson's 1949 dime novel Duke, depicting street gang culture in Harlem: "A lot of guys chew coke. Once you really chew coke it will really stone you"
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Multiple revelations here That getting high from cocaine used to count as "stoned", and that it was something you chewed (I assume coca leaves) I didn't realize that was still a thing in the 40s, now I wonder exactly when powder cocaine replaced it
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I feel like you can still say a person is "stone drunk," even if it sounds a bit old-timey
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