Could Ancient Cannabis Oil Be the Secret Behind Jesus’ Miracles?
In an interview with the Daily Star Online, Bienenstock said:
“There is nothing different in the efficacious cannabis oil used today that wouldn’t have been available to people in Jesus’ time – it’s simply a matter of concentrating the cannabis into the oil and absorbing it through the skin.”
Scholars have pointed to a specific text from the Bible to support this theory. They claim that a recipe for Jesus’ holy anointing oil in Exodus 30: 22-25 actually contains cannabis:
“Take the following fine spices: 500 shekels of liquid myrrh, half as much of fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of q’aneh-bosm, 500 shekels of cassia– all according to the sanctuary shekel– and a hind of olive oil. Make these into a sacred anointing oil, a fragrant blend, the work of a perfumer. It will be the sacred anointing oil.”
In that Bible passage, there’s a mysterious herb mentioned, q’aneh-bosm, that is now commonly identified as “keneh-bosm,” and some historians have reason to believe that this herb was in fact, cannabis.
Adam Ward/Newspix/Getty ImagesThe Bible outlines the ingredients that are necessary to make the anointing oil. One of those ingredients might be cannabis.
Chris Bennett, a cannabis historian and author of a number of books related to the subject, believes too that cannabis is right in the good book, and even asserts that:
“If cannabis was one of the main ingredients of the ancient anointing oil and receiving this oil is what made Jesus the Christ and his followers Christians, then persecuting those who use cannabis could be considered anti-Christ.”
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