Question: What led to the rapid spread (within 150 years) of intoxicants such as cannabis, coffee, coca, tea, and cappiano?

Explanation: The lectures frame the fast global circulation of intoxicants as driven by expanding imperial and commercial networks (especially from the 16th century), alongside new social institutions and consumption spaces that helped normalize and spread these commodities—so the combined factors listed in A–C work together. (Lecture/Reading: Breen, The Age of Intoxication; plus sociability/public sphere context in Grehan.)