Cannabis
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8500 BC: Chinese history proves Cannabis or hemp was
used for oil, fibre and as medicine.
3727 BC: Cannabis
called a "superior" herb in the world's first
medical text, Shen Nung's Pen Ts'ao, in China.
2000 B.C. - 1400 B.C.
Cannabis mentioned in the Atharvaveda (Science of Charms)
as "sacred grass". Referred to as bhang or
bhanga. The legend of Shiva, Lord of Bhang
2700 BC: The oldest
complete human body ever found was wearing a hemp blouse
with a silk like quality. The body had been buried by
ice for four thousand years, and was exposed by a heat
wave.
1500 BC: Cannabis-using
Scythians sweep through Europe and Asia, settle down
everywhere, and invent the scythe - a curved blade used
to harvest Canabis.
700 B.C. - 600 B.C.
The Zoroastrian Zend-Avesta, an ancient Persian religious
text of several hundred volumes, and said to have been
written by Zarathustra (Zoroaster), refers to bhang
as Zoroaster's "good narcotic".
500 BC: Gautama Buddha
survives by eating hempseed.
450 BC: Hemp was being
cultivated in the middle east for the same purposes
as China. Herodotus records Scythians and Thracians
as consuming Cannabis and making fine linens of hemp.
300 BC: Carthage and
Rome struggle for political and commercial power over
hemp and spice trade routes in Mediterranean.
100 BC: Paper made
from hemp and mulberry is invented in China.
100 AD: Roman surgeon
Dioscorides names the plant Cannabis sativa and describes
various medicinal uses.
Pliny tells of industrial uses and writes a manual on
farming hemp. |
