How the High Priests got High
<p>Cannabis residues have been identified on the altar of a Judahite shrine in Israel dating from the 8th century BC <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03344355.2020.1732046?fbclid=IwAR2N7RBfDfBmSBT5YkMKOSdKkBeVBg3g3dhzUdcI334YI7LBJ9kE_G0kvBk" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">according to the Tel Aviv Institute of Archeology</a>.¹ This is not the first time it has been found in the area — in 1993, archeologists found cannabis at a burial tomb near Jerusalem in forms suggesting medical application by both fumigation and oil massaged into the skin.² Another dig in Egypt found cannabis pollen on the mummy of Rameses II, confirming that the plant was used in the religious rites of the Egyptians, and also that cannabis has been transported along trade routes that pass through Palestine for many millennia.</p>
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