Cannabis was burned for religious rituals in Biblical-era Israel

By Michael Marshall

Israel Antiquities Authority Sequence, Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, by Laura Lachman

Religious ceremonies that took areas thousands of years in the past in what’s now Israel fervent the burning of hashish, essentially based utterly utterly on a witness of an former shrine. The finding suggests psychoactive substances played a key position in rituals performed in the Biblical Kingdom of Judah.

“In plenty of areas in the field, psychoactive materials were aged for non secular capabilities,” says Eran Arie of The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. “Nonetheless it’s the first time that we personal certain proof from Judah itself.”

Arie …