Excavations by scientists over the past decade have discovered proof that at least one farm in Norway was cultivating cannabis well before the Viking age began. The most likely explanation is that these Middle Age Norse farmers were cultivating the plants for hemp fiber, possibly to make the rope that is essential when sailing boats across the high seas.
It is unknown if these ‘proto-Vikings’ also used the cannabis plant for medicinal purposes but given what is known about other traditional hemp cultivation cultures in earlier times, the two uses usually went hand in hand.
Minnesotans are seeing green, and the new law legalizing pot has made an immediate impact on the accessibility and popularity of beverages with THC, the key ingredient from hemp and cannabis that gets someone high.
The earliest Egyptian references to the healing properties of the plant are found in the fragments of an almost 4000 year old scroll of medical instructions, known to scholars as the Papyrus Ramesseum III.
1300 years ago, the seafaring raiders, traders and explorers from Denmark, Norway and Sweden collectively known as Vikings began to sweep across Europe, the Mediterranean, North America and even the Middle East. This period of furious activity is known as “the Viking age”.
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