Pot smoking Celts?????

[Conal]

Interesting topic over at Kelticos ...


http://www.kelticos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=499

[Medicus matt]

I might have missed it but nobody seemed to cite any evidence for clay pipes?

Someone (Pliny?) talks of smoking dried coltsfoot leaves through a reed as a remedy but not through a fabricated pipe.

The Scythians (according to Herodotus) used to just chuck it on the fire...I expect other cultures did the same.

The amount of THC that you get from naturally occurring, uncultivated strains grown outdoors in North Western europe is so low that you'd have to burn it by the bale to get a decent hit.

Allegedly.

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

But then they would have a lower resistence and still get a hit from it , you would imagine.... :|

[Conal]

If they had been getting high on it you can bet they would have developed a sytem for personally smoking it. No evidence for that so hock:

[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Perhaps they just drank infusions of it? Would a healthy ancient actually want to inhale smoke, when there were other
ways of imbibing.....

[Alanus]

I don't recall Caesar mentioning anything about hemp in Gaul.
Herodotus did when speaking of the Scythians or Massagetae. He got it wrong, claiming they burned the seeds while hunkering in small tents. But-- (as we all know)-- the seeds alone make you sick. Obviously, they smoked the entire bud... leaving the unburned seeds for Herodotus to find. :lol: