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Cannabis sativa has been cultivated by humans for thousands of years both as a narcotic and also for making hemp fabrics. Brand new genetic and archaeological evidence places the original domestication event in China, but indicates that the plant was mainly spread by Indo-European peoples such as the Yamnaya and the Scythians. Cannabis was used in the funerary and religious rites in many pagan religions as well as in ancient Jewish rites in Israel.

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00:00 Introduction
01:04 Origin of cannabis
04:33 Early evidence at Jirzankal
06:28 Yanghai shaman
09:26 Blinkist sponsorship
10:26 Scythians
15:55 Iran and BMAC
19:02 India
21:17 China
25:04 Assyrians and Jews
29:25 Early Indo-Europeans
35:26 Celts and Vikings
38:04 End

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