I'm pretty sure this is because "stoned" originally just meant "really drunk" and was one of those negative words for being TOO drunk, like "wasted" or "hammered"https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1252589910760075265 …
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Is this where Billie Joe’s line in piano man comes from about businessmen getting stoned?
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Yes that's definitely one of the bits I was thinking of, he obviously doesn't really mean they're all smoking weed in there
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This quick dive into the etymology of "stoned" was way more satisfying than I would have guessed three tweets ago
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Huh! Holmes—yeah, let’s go back there—was doing coke in snuff form as early as A Study in Scarlet. Maybe it’s just localized trends?
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Thinking about Van Morrison's "And It Stoned Me" as an example of the older usage.
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