When we typically think of Cannabis usage, we normally go back in time to the 60’s or perhaps a bit earlier, to the Prohibition era, when it was sold quietly in speak easies focused on weed, called “Teapads.” But human culture has been intertwined with Marijuana for far longer.
We can find evidence of it usage long before we had modern nations. The first definitive evidence of people getting high was around 1500 BCE, to give you context, this is about the same time that farming was spreading throughout the eastern US, the first truly sophisticated civilization had arisen in China and it was the bronze age throughout Europe. So who was getting stoned back then? The Celts, the Germanic peoples, the Chinese, the Africans, pretty much everyone!
Now if you think that criticism of weed is a more industrial age thing, you couldn’t be more wrong. We have ample evidence of Hashish usage in Medieval Egypt. Many reported that the drug made them high, hungry, and a bit lethargic...
