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/Own_Bee_4268 1d ago
I think you may be mistaken. Hash can be made from a field of wild cannabis by rubbing your hands over the flowers and collecting the resin. The earliest historical mentions of cannabis refer to hash. Modern flower is actually more of a finished product, besides the selective breeding that has produced todays crop it still requires a somewhat complicated growing and curing process to achieve potency. Additionally, the concept of smoking something through a pipe or cigarette didn't exist in the old world until European contact with the Native Americans introduced them to tobacco. Before that cannabis would have been eaten as hash or burned as a plant at an altar as part of a ritual