Robert Hooke was a Brit scientist in he 1600s. Was at the early edge of discovering gravity caused the motions of planets later proved by Newton.
He tested pot and gave a lecture to to the Royal Society of Science that described the social, psychiatric and therapeutic uses it. Hooke informed his audience about its ‘very general and frequent’ use in India, and how his source (Knox) ‘hath made many Trials of it, on himself, with very good Effect’. This suggests that Knox had become accustomed to using bhang on his travels and could well have imported some for his own use.
Hooke instructed how the bhang was to be consumed, and described the onset of the ‘Operation’:
The Patient understands not, nor remembereth any Thing … but becomes, as it were, a mere Natural, being unable to speak a Word of Sense; yet is he very merry, and laughs, and sings … yet is he not giddy, or drunk, but walks and dances … after a little Time he falls asleep, and sleepeth very soundly and quietly; and when he wakes, he finds himself mightily refresh’d, and exceeding hungry.
Hooke also specifically mentioned Knox’s illness in Ceylon, ‘which troubled his Stomach, or Head’. Yet after the bhang, he noted dramatically, Knox had been ‘perfectly carried off without leaving any ill Symptom, as Giddiness, Pain in the Head or Stomach, or Defect of Memory’.
He said the main risk was laughter.
That should put to rest the canard that 'today's pot is a lot stronger than yesterday's pot.' But it won't. lol
It doesn’t cure what ills gangsta thugs who drive by and shoot up Chicago so much every week.
Not everyone who smokes pot is a peaceful dreamer.
The high school rampage killers have typically been pot smokers too.