Myrrh mixed with posca or wine was widely used in many ancient cultures to produce pleasurable feelings and as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic.
— The all-holy WikipediaHere in the modern age we forget just how much the diggity-dank (whether cannabis proper or whatever herb grows as a nearby weed) was important in human life and culture. Tobacco and coffee came late in history and heck we’ve almost forgotten about khat (which is a controlled substance in the US, probably because it would compete with coffee and tobacco if it were well known)
The only reason were not allowed to trip balls through our lives now is because it interferes with our industrial work. Seriously, the industrialists pressured states to restrict drugs because it slowed assembly lines.
Gold, frankincense, and myrrhuana
I swear I once had a multiple choice test at school with a question about this and one of the options was “gold, frankincense and weed”. One of my best friends sat next to me and we fucking lost it.
It’s not so inappropriate; in the middle east you can just buy a waterpipe (bong) anywhere. It’s called a hookah or a shisha and it’s the standard way they smoke tobacco.
And weed they also smoke weed with it because yes it is a bong.
