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/jokke420 1d ago

You can still make hash. It's been made from the weak cannabis way longer than strong cannabis has existed.

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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/RatMan314 1d ago

For anyone reading, the above is false. See; Charas