Quote Originally Posted by slowthestone
I can only say...you've been looking for the wrong wording.

The name cannabis is generally thought to be of Scythian origin. Sula Benet in Cannabis and Culture argues that it has a much earlier origin in Semitic languages like Hebrew, occurring several times in the Old Testament. He states that in Exodus 30:23 that God commands Moses to make a holy anointing oil of myrrh, sweet cinnamon, kaneh bosm, and kassia. He continues that the word kaneh bosm is also rendered in the traditional Hebrew as kannabos or kannabus and that the root "kan" in this construction means "reed" or "hemp", while "bosm" means "aromatic". He states that in the earliest Greek translations of the old testament "kan" was rendered as "reed", leading to such erroneous English translations as "sweet calamus" (Exodus 30:23), sweet cane (Isaiah 43:24; Jeremiah 6:20) and "calamus" (Ezekiel 27:19; Song of Songs 4:14).
All right, assuming this interpretation is correct, all it would prove is that some of the people who wrote the Old Testament were familiar with making oils from cannabis, not that anybody was smoking it back then, or that people in first-century Palestine would have been smoking it. Smoking weed is a relatively modern phenomenon.
btw...Jesus was a real person. Theres absolutely no disputing the fact that the man was here on Earth.
I have not been shown sufficient evidence that he did in fact exist. I've looked, and I'm certainly open to the idea that he might have existed, but I have been unable to find conclusive historical evidence on the matter.
Was he the son of christ though...that'd be the debate.
Son of Christ? I thought he was supposed to be Christ himself, and the Son of God.
Either way, theres no getting around historical accounts of the period that had anyone whom was anointed, was done so with oil with cannabis as the key ingredient.

Then theres the mention of 'fragrant cane'...translated into the Hebrew Kaneh Bosum translated into English as...cannabis.
That's assuming that this kaneh-bosm thing really is cannabis. I've done a lot of studying of etymology, and in the field of historical linguistics there is a lot of uncertainty about this kind of thing. From what I can find, it probably is the case that the Scythian root "kanap" is the root of the Latin word "cannabis" and related words in European languages (English "hemp", Dutch "hennep", German "Hanf", French "chanvre", Spanish "cáñamo", Russian "konoplya", etc.), but there really isn't enough evidence to convince the linguistic community that it came ultimately from the Hebrew "kaneh-bosm". It may have, it may not have. When you're talking about languages that have been dead for millennia, it's hard to be sure.
~sigh~...it won't much matter until records are unearthed indicating that Jesus had some sort of contact with marijuana. Right about then is when some serious denial on the part of many Christians would run rampant all over the globe.
I doubt such records will come up, considering the paucity of historical evidence on this Jesus character outside the Gospels in the first place. And even then, Christians are not exactly open to new historical documents about Jesus. Remember that whole Gospel of Judas conundrum? How many sects of Christianity do you think are going to start including that one in their Bibles?
And about current establishments being anti-pot and the pothead's reaction to such...establishments change...the effects of marijuana on people do not.

Hellz, even here in about as pot friendly an environment one can find...theres an undercurrent of anti-establishment. Potheads simply want to do things they want to do without outside interference.
True, but I would argue that this is largely the result of the fact that cannabis has been forced into a subculture. The people who enjoy pot are the same people who have disregard for authority, simply because those who follow authority don't like to do illegal things. I don't think this undercurrent is nearly as strong in, say, Amsterdam, and if it exists there at all it is probably from foreign influences and the fact that cannabis is still largely restricted (although tolerated) there.