The curious case of ancient cannabis use
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People may have smoked cannabis 2,800 years before our time, new research suggests. In the 4th century B.C., Greek historian Herodotus gave an account of an unusual ritual among a nomadic group known as the Scythians: smoking weed. He described them throwing cannabis seeds onto red-hot stones. “It …
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