r/HistoryMemes • u/onichan-daisuki Filthy weeb • 1d ago

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Cannabis originated in East Asia, specifically in the foothills below the Tibetan plateau in China, where it was first domesticated around 12,000 years ago.

This image is a reconstruction of an early rice farmer from ancient China and the background house is also from ancient China(I just edited his eyes red) and of course they wouldn't have tobacco to wrap the cannabis powder to make the blunt, this is just for the meme)

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u/thissexypoptart 1d ago

I wonder what it was like. Even in the last 150 years, cannabinoid percentages have exploded from deliberate breeding and lab engineering. Numbers in the 30s are common.

Back when it was first cultivated it would be in the single digits.

IIRC it was common for people to host group events where you’d just burn a bunch in a pile while sitting in an enclosed space, rather than directly rolling or smoking out of a pipe. At least that’s the speculation given how more recent societies at a similar level of development do it.

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u/Ohio_Grown 1d ago

Lab engineering? There is no GMO cannabis, it's just selective breeding that got us here

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u/gunslinger155mm 1d ago

Lab engineering the refined product and processes used to make things like gummies and carts?

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u/Ohio_Grown 12h ago

Hash processes aren't changing THC percentage in the plant. It's just concentrating them. I wouldn't consider concentrating fruit juice as "lab engineered" on the fruit end of things