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In reply to the discussion: Pope Francis is on the wrong side of history (again) [View all]RainDog
(28,784 posts)What you were taught as a child, or your analysis of the linguist's work in Poland in the 1930s, the linguists at Hebrew University in Jerusalem who reached the same conclusion in the 1980s, or Raphael Mechoulem (the scientist who isolated the THC molecule at Hebrew University) who claims it's not kaneh bosem but another cognate that is the reference?
I don't read Hebrew, but I understand the argument from both sides.
It makes perfect sense to view anointing oil for the sick as something like the anointing oil for the Levite priests, which had 6 lbs of cannabis in a quart of olive oil, plus other herbs, if the Polish linguist is correct. This would explain how epileptics stopped their seizures, since this is what cannabis does now, as well, but was called demon possession back then.
What's your evidence?