how was marijuana discovered?

They would have either accidentally smoked or eaten it. It was bound to happen really. It originated in Kazakhstan and the ancient people there used to smoke shit loads of herbs. I guess they just stumbled upon this and were like "WOW!" haha.

 

I'm just guessing, but I have a strange feeling it might have been put into cooking in stews and stuff. For some reason I think smoking first wouldn't have come naturally.

Eating just seems like it would be more practical.

 

But didn't the ancient Kazakshatnis used to just smoke loads and loads of different herbs?

 

i agree. could you imagine?
"man, this smells really good. we should use it as a spice in some food."
"okay."

hour later, baked...

"DUUUUDE!!! this is the best thing we've ever done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

 

One theory is that the Asian nomadic mountain tribes discovered it's psychoactive use by inhaling the smoke from a bonfire where cannabis plants were used as timber / or accidentally found it's way onto the bonfire (who knows...)

Remember that eating and smoking cannabis are two very different things, and the psychoactive use of cannabis mainly stems from inhaling the smoke.

But nevermind how it was discovered, we can never know. Just be glad that it did get discovered

 

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miF6GhQZZSY]YouTube - Reporter gets high[/ame]
basically like that?

 

I often ask myself the same question as well.

I guess it came from eating.

My thought is this.

Do you think there are any other plants in nature that can get us high that we don't know about?

I think thats the golden question.

 

I'd like to think in the ocean there's something you can smoke or eat that will fuck you up hard.

 

I thought the History channel did a good job of showing how pot became illegal. Sadly, the prohibition began because of racial prejudice. Check out this first part of that show:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yqyx0pCIHA]YouTube - History Channel (Hooked) - Marijuana; Part 1 of 5[/ame]
It does go into the history of the drug

enjoy!
-Me-

 

that is indeed the golden question. i am 100 percent sure there is something similar out there waiting to be discovered.

 

There definitely has to be. Just like the way we found certain mushrooms can make you trip while others can kill you. It's all from experimenting. It's way safer to test things now with modern science rather than the old fashioned way of eating it and then finding out the effects.

 

I think it was discovered when the aliens first brought it down for us. And they instructed the ancient humans on how to use it

 

I think this is probably the most accurate. I would guess someone tossed some drier looking cannadbis into a fire for tinder or just to burn, or it just accidentally caught up.

The food theory could work if the cook decided to investigate the source of the "high," and just started testing it in different ways until he/she smoked it, but this just seems far more unlikely.

 

Don't you have to cook cannabis the right way for it to have an effect? I can't remember the specifications, but I know the THC needs something to "grab on to" (like butter or alcohol) and it needs to be heated to a certain temperature to have effect. I know you can't just eat weed and get high. You're probably right, they probably burnt it and inhaled the smoke on accident.

 

Actually, racism was just the excuse. Corporate interests was what got cannabis criminalized. The endless medicinal and industrial purposes cannabis could be used for would render both the medicinal industry and a large part of the industrial industry useless.

One company in particular, DuPont, played a major part in outlawing Cannabis (more specifically Hemp) because they had patented Nylon and other synthetic substances that would make them rich while cannabis would put them out of business.

Bayer and other medicinal companies also helped destroy cannabis' reputation as a medicine again because it would put them out of business if people could deal with their ailments by growing a plant in their backyard.