Bible is filled with so many incidents of miracles performed by Jesus and his apostles. During that time there was a practice of using an anointing oil to treat the sick, which had a psychic healing effect thanks to the presence of a ‘mysterious’ healing ingredient in it. Jesus himself had been anointed by using such an oil, which made him be called “Christ the anointed” later. However, David Bienenstock, an author and a controversial historian, busted the myth of that secret ingredient and claimed it to be nothing other than ‘marijuana’ or ‘cannabis’.
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He said that Cannabis had been widely available 2000 years ago in the Middle East and that the people of that time used it to treat sick and the infirm. The Hebrew version of the holy oil recipe in Exodus contained almost 3 kilos (6lb) of an as-yet unidentified herb referred to as keneh-bosum. Bienenstock claimed that Keneh-bosum was the cannabis. Some historians’ claims dispute it as they consider Keneh-bosum to be ‘Calamas’- a root extract also known as ‘Sweet Flag’.
Bienenstock even said that Jesus and his apostles might have taken cannabis and that the psychoactive properties of the anointing oil could be attributed to the presence of cannabis in it.
Lytton John Musselman, a Botany professor at Old Dominion University rubbished Bienenstock’s views as ‘weak’.
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