Kaneh Bosm

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Kaneh Bosm, biblical term for Cannabis, or some preparation that included Cannabis.

...the most convincing evidence for cannabis in the Bible comes via the Polish Anthropologist Sula Benet’s etymological investigations into the Hebrew word “kaneh bosm.” In her essays “Tracing One Word Through Different Languages” (1936) and “Early Diffusions and Folk Uses of Hemp” (1975), Benet demonstrated that the Hebrew terms “kaneh” and “kaneh bosm” (also translated “qaneh,” and “qaneh bosm”) identified cannabis, by tracing the modern.