Smoking Cannabis facts
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Bob Dylan introduced the Beatles to cannabis. He rolled a joint and passed it to Ringo, who didn't realize he was supposed to pass the joint and smoked the whole joint to himself
The Hindu god Shiva has long been linked to cannabis. Shiva came and drank the poison created by the cosmic ocean, but over time it made him so hot he needed to be cooled down. Marijuana is supposed to be a coolant – so it is said that Shiva smokes weed to keep his body temperature down.
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The Scythians were the first people to adopt smoking cannabis (though they mixed it with opium) en masse, and the elite even had solid gold bongs to smoke out of, 2400 years ago.
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Bob Marley, against popular belief, didn't believe in smoking marijuana for recreation. He thought cannabis should be used for religious and medicinal purposes.
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Adolescents who smoke marijuana as early as 14 do worse by 20 on some cognitive tests and drop out of school at a higher rate than non-smokers. But if they hold off until age 17, they're less at risk, and performed equally well as adolescents who did not use cannabis.
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Iceland as a country smokes the most cannabis per capita than anywhere else, with 20% of the population considering themselves regular smokers.
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Adolescents who smoke marijuana as early as 14 do worse by 20 on some cognitive tests and drop out of school at a higher rate than non-smokers. But if they hold off until age 17, they're less at risk, and performed equally well as adolescents who did not use cannabis.
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Kevin Smith quit smoking cigarettes in 2008 after taking up smoking cannabis after working with Seth Rogen on Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
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Excavations of a burial mound in Russia found that Scythian tribal chiefs used gold bongs 2,400 years ago to smoke cannabis and opium.
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The world record for the largest hotbox is held by New Zealand who smoked out a converted school bus, The Cannabus, with 84 people inside. They beat the previous record holder which was themselves. The organizer of the group is currently serving time in prison for cannabis charges.
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It is estimated that 43% of the people in the United States have tried smoking marijuana at least once in their lives.
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The word 'Assassin' is thought to come from a group of fanatical muslims during the crusades, who smoked hashish (cannabis) and murdered the leaders of opposing sides. They started going by the word 'hashishiyyin' meaning hashish-users in Arabic.
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Scythians had shamans who would smoke cannabis to induce a trance. They were called Kapnobatai which means "those who walk on/in clouds"
Smoking Cannabis Can Shrink the Size and Shape of Sperms - source
David Cameron was found smoking cannabis while at Eton college. He was fined and given a 'Georgic' (a punishment of copying 500 lines of Latin text). - source
Teens who smoke cannabis is more likely to have schizophrenia, although its not clear if this is correlation or causation.
Until the early 1900s, most pharmacies carried cannabis and farmers were required to grow hemp (which was used as legal tender in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Maryland). Cannabis was made illegal after rumors that Mexican immigrants were going crazy from smoking marijuana and were killing people. - source
A lethal dose of Cannabis would require 680Kg to be smoked within 15 minutes.
Chinese tombs yield the earliest evidence of cannabis use for its psychoactive properties. Cannabis was cultivated in East Asia for their seeds and fibre from at least 4000 BC. This study suggests weed was being smoked at least 2500 years ago and was identified in wooden burners from burials.
The same day an anti-gay "Religious Freedom" Act was passed in Indiana, the First Church of Cannabis was formed. The founder realized a loophole in the bill which legally allows its members to smoke marijuana.
Smoking cannabis does not have a correlation to lung cancer, in fact, THC in marijuana has anti-tumoral effects
Australians smoke more cannabis than tobacco and smoke more bongs (per capita) than any other nation
In Pineapple Express, James Franco and Seth Rogen used mild herbal cigarettes, instead of cannabis, and only wafted the light smoke over the caterpillar for a moment - the caterpillar was then immediately removed.
