In the beginning of early cannabis history, the plant sat high in the Tibetan Plateau, waiting. While reports of the first use and cultivation of cannabis by humans is widely varied, they stretch back as far as our written records go. We likely stumbled upon it much earlier than recorded, what with humans exploring that area for upwards of 40,000 years before written history. Based on the fact that these first plants were found at high elevations in locations that modern psychoactive landrace varieties thrive, there is a high probability the first cannabis plants we stumbled across were psychoactive. How long it took us to figure out that fun little fact though is anyone’s guess.

It is believed that the first documented medical use in early cannabis history is depicted in Egyptian hieroglyphs dated back some 5000 years. Although not much is known about their ancient consumption methods of shemshemet, as it was known then, smoke residue has been found in the lungs of mummified remains. This leads one to believe our basic methods have not changed much. Their understanding of the plant even evolved to eye cream for glaucoma. More recently in history residue found in braziers in China contained measurable amounts of THC from a sample over 2500 years old! Imagine how potent it had to be to still have a detectable amount thousands of years later, and how well it had to have been stored. These braziers were burned in enclosed spaces, Filling the room with the vapor of the plant. Thats right! Humans been hotboxing for two and a half millennia!

So there you have it. No one knows when we first found each other, but it was love at first toke. From the moment we first found the cannabis plant we carried it with us as a source of food, shelter, medicine, fuel, and textiles across the entire planet. The rest is history.

-trion.thc