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JBReefer | 5 years ago

Cannabis seeds and hemp seeds don’t contain thc

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qplex|5 years ago

It was most likely the flowers of a female plant (that contain the seed) that were thrown on the rocks.

Also, hemp == cannabis.

progre|5 years ago

> Also, hemp == cannabis.

Sure, but plants grown primarily for it's fibers wouldn't have anyting near the THC levels of the skunk mutants grown for narcotic use today

pmiller2|5 years ago

Herodotus wasn't known for his slavish accuracy, if you know what I mean.

dr_dshiv|5 years ago

Well, this is at least pretty clear evidence that he didn't inhale.

And besides, it also suggests why any interested readers in the past 2400 years would have been disappointed by the technique and not passed on the know how.

pretzel_boss|5 years ago

How reliable do you think a translation from over 2 millennia ago is?

nerdponx|5 years ago

So? Clearly they venerated the plant no matter what.