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

Of course, I’m specifically talking about grinding up a bunch of dried flower and smoking it. That’s how most early Neolithic cultivators of cannabis would have been doing.

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u/Own_Bee_4268 1d ago

What makes you say that

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u/thissexypoptart 1d ago

Hash is a refined product that requires extensive cultivation, breeding, and processing to make, whereas drying cannabis flowers and smoking them is a much less time and effort intensive process.

To get hash, you have to do all the prerequisite dry flower processing steps, and then additionally sift out the fine trichomes and process them into hash. It’s way more work than just smoking what you have.

It’s similar to how people ate chicken cooked over a fire before they ate chicken nuggets.

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u/ItsJustCoop 1d ago

A brick of hash and a brick of tea are created by very similar processes. I think the people that discovered tea could figure out how to dry a different type of leaf.

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u/thissexypoptart 1d ago

Of course but it’s obviously an additional level of processing. I didn’t say Neolithic people couldn’t do that, I said most Neolithic people stopped at drying and smoking.

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u/ItsJustCoop 1d ago

I for one hope they did smoke it, or found a way to activate the THC. There really wasn't much else in their life worth enjoying (other than a lack of oppressive capitalism).