It’s starting to look like even cave-dwelling humans were into weed. And evidence is mounting it was when we started consuming cannabis (like the guy in the picture) that we began creating great art, music, literature and poetry. That’s a theory that Robyn Lawrence Griggs, explores in her terrific book, Pot in Pans: A History of Eating Cannabis.
It’s well known that in the “hunter/gatherer” days before before we figured out how to plant stuff, we humans had to find and kill plants and animals in order to eat.
“Ethnobotanists believe cannabis was one of the first plants they explored,” explains Lawrence. “Shortly afterward humans entered what’s known as the Neolithic period where we actively cultivated cannabis and other plants for food, medicine and industrial materials like rope and paper. But what’s so fascinating about all of this is the fact that we still can’t explain what anthropologists call “The Great Leap.”
“Music, art, religion and agriculture—it all began at a time we can link to cannabis consumption,” Lawrence tells us. “Even more fascinating is that the part of the brain where the FOXP2 gene operates, the part associated with speech, language and creativity, is somehow activated by cannabis.”
“Ethnobotanists believe cannabis was one of the first plants they explored,” explains Lawrence. “Shortly afterward humans entered what’s known as the Neolithic period where we actively cultivated cannabis and other plants for food, medicine and industrial 
materials like rope and paper. But what’s so fascinating about all of this is the fact that we still can’t explain what anthropologists call “The Great Leap.”
“Music, art, religion and agriculture—it all began at a time we can link to cannabis consumption,” Lawrence continues. “Even more fascinating is that the part of the brain where the FOXP2 gene operates, the part associated with speech, language and creativity, is somehow activated by cannabis.”
“Great ideas were born from eating resin-y flowers. So does cannabis consumption explain how we transformed from primates to a species capable of quantum mechanics and fine art? Maybe. Maybe not. Either way it’s an interesting idea.”
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