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== Ancient history ==
this is da realest shit from the hood of egypte we dilliver the best shit to yo door' step nigger, also visit us at www.hardcore.com Biologists generally agree that the cannabis plant first grew somewhere in the [[Himalayas]].{{Fact|date=February 2007}} Evidence of the smoking of cannabis can be found as far back as the [[Neolithic]] age, where charred hemp seeds were found in a ritual [[brazier]] at a burial site in present day [[Romania]].<ref name="Neolithic">{{cite book|author=Richard Rudgley|title=The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age|date=1999}}</ref>
The most famous users of cannabis were the ancient [[Hindu]]s. It was called ''ganjika'' in [[Sanskrit]] (''ganja'' in modern Indian languages, named for the [[Ganges]] river <ref>Flashbacks, Tim Leary</ref>).<ref name="ganjikaEB">{{cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica |title=HEMP|url=http://57.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HE/HEMP.htm|accessdate=2006-06-15|edition=11|year=1911}}</ref> The ancient drug [[soma]], mentioned in the [[Veda]]s as a sacred intoxicating hallucinogen, was sometimes associated with cannabis.<ref name="EPAS">{{cite encyclopedia | title = Soma | encyclopedia = The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | date = 1998 | accessdate=2006-12-30 | url = http://www.huxley.net/soma/index.html}}</ref>
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