In the 17th century, English travelers, merchants, and physicians were first introduced to cannabis, particularly in the form of bhang, an intoxicating edible which had been getting Indians high for millennia. Benjamin Breen charts the course of the drug from the streets of Machilipatnam to the scientific circles of London. View of Masulipatam, published by Johannes Janssonius Waasbergen, 1672. The three flags indicate the location of foreign trading factories Not long after he arrived in Machilipatnam, Thomas Bowrey began to wonder what it was that the people of Machilipatnam were smoking. The bustling port city on India’s Coromandel Coast felt fantastical to the young East India Company merchant. During the first days of his visit in 1673, Bowrey...
logic · THCFarmer News DeskMarch 7, 2020 · 3K reads · 0 comments
