No plant has been a constant companion of humanity for longer than hemp. Hemp seeds and the remains of ropes from it were found in the most ancient layers of many Eurasian sites. Hemp, which has the very ancestral home of the very heart of Central Asia, has spread throughout the world with the help and with the help of human beings. It was brought to Africa a long time ago, and cold-adapted types of cannabis traveled with the pioneers who spread the land bridge to the New World. Due to its universal distribution and adaptability to any environment, hemp had a great influence on the social forms and image of a person in culture. When the resin of a hemp plant is collected in dark sticky lumps, their action can be compared to the action of a hallucinogen, if it is a drug to eat. This is a classic hashish.
Thousands of names by which hemp is known in hundreds of languages testify not only to the history of its culture and its widest distribution, but also to its influence on the ability of the poetic soul that forms the language. Kunubu – as they call it in one Assyrian letter, dated by researchers 685 BC. er about a hundred years later, it is referred to as Kannapi , from the Greek and Latin root cannabis . She is bang , beng and bungee ; she is ganja , gangik and ganga . Asa from the Japanese, Dagga – from the Hottentots; it – kef , kif , kerp and ma . In American slang alone, an incredible amount of hemp names appeared. Even before 1940, that is, before it became an integral part of the white culture, hemp was known. Such names were a kind of mantra empirical-oriented religious subclass of fans of the cheerful green Goddess.