ilife said:
Gnar!Sam_Skunkman said:I have 8 of these Cannabis seeds found in the frozen tomb by Dr Rudenko in a small leather pouch. They were given to me by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
Sam_Skunkman said:Cannabis was not smoked prior to the introduction of Tobacco to the Old World. 1492.
Waterpipes were developed for Tobacco, and modified for hashish. Some like the Afghan hubble bubble pipes are made for Hashish smoking, but Tobacco can be smoked in them.
If you can find a pre 1492 reference to hash inhaling I am interested, I know about the famous passage written in about 450 B.C., Herodotus describes these funeral rites as follows:
...when, therefore, the Scythians have taken some seed of this hemp, they creep under the cloths and put the seeds on the red hot stones; but this being put on smokes, and produces such a steam, that no Grecian vapour-bath would surpass it. The Scythians, transported by the vapour, shout aloud. It is most likely the seeds described by Herodotus were seeded buds, and that the charred seeds found by archeologists are what was left over from the burnt buds.
Archaeologist Sergei Ivanovich Rudenko, found Cannabis seeds at Pazyryk in a frozen tomb from the fifth century BC. They are now on exibit at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
I have 8 of these Cannabis seeds found in the frozen tomb by Dr Rudenko in a small leather pouch. They were given to me by the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.
-SamS