Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years

Abel EL (1980). Marihuana The First Twelve Thousand Years. Plenum Press, New York. 

The earliest reference to mind-altering effects from Cannabis appears in the Atharva-Veda of the second millenium B.C., when it was already regarded as one of the five sacred plants of India. Ernest L. Abel in his Marihuana The First Twelve Thousand Years, describes much of the early use of Cannabis in the daily life of China and India. Schultes and Hofmann in Plants of the Gods document its use in Tibet ... 

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