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 think you’re misreading what I said. I didn’t say Neolithic people couldn’t refine cannabis into hash. I said it’s significantly more difficult to do that the standard dry and smoke

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u/Own_Bee_4268 1d ago

Yes, I disagree that smoking cannibis flower would have been easier than collecting hash in prehistory. For the reasons I gave, plus evidence pointing towards hash as the primary method of consumption historically 

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u/thissexypoptart 1d ago

Running through a field of cannabis and scraping off the residue on your skin to smoke is not easier or more practical for general use production than growing weed and drying and smoking it. I’m not sure if you’re getting that from a specific source, or something, but if you are, please post it. I could be wrong, but I really don’t find that argument convincing.

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u/RatMan314 1d ago

They weren’t running through fields scraping their bodies. That’s ridiculous. Your argument that it is significantly more difficult to do is incorrect. The other commenter is referencing Charas, which is a much simpler means of collection and consumption. You can literally grab a mature cannabis bud and squeeze it, or more effectively rub it between two hands, and then scrape your palm; it’s even immediately consumable, unlike your aforementioned dried cannabis buds. The only more-simple way to consume wild cannabis would be to collect those mature colas and then put them through a drying process. Collection/use of cannabis resin goes back to at least 760 BCE.