Cannabis is a plant. It’s also medicine. In addition to both of those things, cannabis is also a lens we can look through to better understand things like history, culture and religion. For instance, some suggest that the ‘miracles’ performed by Jesus in the Old Testament might have had more to do with high-quality medical cannabis than anything related to the supernatural or a higher power.
Some have even proposed the idea that cannabis is useful in explaining missing links in human evolution and others suggest that cannabis (in addition to psilocybin) might actually be gifts from aliens, or even a kind of alien intelligence in and of themselves. And while there’s no real evidence that cannabis is a gift from visitors from other worlds that was given to us humans to make our lives better and easier, it’s still a really nice idea.