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To: BenLurkin

That would be quite a trick since cannabis species are native to the old world....central Asia... And was introduced to North America by colonists, despite assorted hippie sites claiming prehistoric Indians used it.... The confusion may be due to totally unrelated plants like dogbane being called ‘hemp’ because they were as good for making cordage as true hemp.

This is probably the source of the confusion —
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocynum_cannabinum

They did have intoxicating and hallucinogenic plants native to North America to use ...one is plain old Jimson weed. Before it showed up in the Mississippian [more recent than the Hopewell] archaeological record their art was tight and refined... After it turned up it became became disjointed and fixated on death symbols. I don’t think it was smoked, but might be wrong. I think it was taken orally. The Mississippians [the Natchez anyway] also used a kind of pill made of strong tobacco to render victims compliant before strangling them to accompany dead leaders into the afterlife.


17 posted on 06/28/2020 2:04:50 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

Dogbane is mildly hallucinogenic but it can act on the heart and was used to treat many conditions and taken different ways..


19 posted on 06/28/2020 2:07:37 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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