Hempire

Today on Hempire our host Eileen Karpfinger is joined by Chris Bennett. Chris is widely recognized as one of the foremost authorities on the history of cannabis, having written dozens of articles in Cannabis Culture, High Times, and other magazines as well as three books dealing with the subject; Green Gold the Tree of Life: Marijuana in Magic and Religion (Access Unlimited, 1995), Sex, Drugs, Violence and the Bible (Forbidden Fruit Publishing, 2001) and Cannabis and the Soma Solution (TrineDay, 2010) and contributing chapters on cannabis history for anthologies such as, ‘Psychedelics ReImagined’ (1998); ‘The Pot Book’ (2010); ‘Entheogens and the Development of Culture (2013); The Anthropology and Neurobiology’ (2013); ‘Seeking the Sacred with Psychoactive. Bennett has identified evidence for a religious role for cannabis in a variety of ancient and modern religions, such as Hinduism, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Taoism, but his work regarding evidence in the Bible regarding the use of cannabis by both the ancien