More History of Cannabis Use
Ancients enjoyed the myriad health and psychodelic benefits of cannabis. Hopefully the wisdom of the ancients will take hold of federal lawmakers and the federal prohibition against a plant that is both healthful and enjoyable will soon end. It has damaged more than enough folks lives over the last 100 years. Scientists Find Ancient Humans Used Weed 2,500 Years Ago, Too Dense patches of wild cannabis grow across the mountain foothills of Eurasia from the Caucuses to East Asia. These plants were photographed growing in the Tian Shan Mountains of Kazakhstan. Credit... Robert Spengler An association between weed and the dead turns out to have been established long before the 1960s and far beyond a certain ur-band’s stomping grounds in San Francisco. Researchers have identified strains of cannabis burned in mortuary rituals as early as 500 B.C., deep in the Pamir mountains in western China, according to a new study published Wednesday. The re...