{"id":700,"date":"2020-12-25T17:53:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T17:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cannadaily.news\/?p=700"},"modified":"2020-12-25T17:53:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T17:53:38","slug":"the-old-cannabis-xmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/ar\/the-old-cannabis-xmas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Old Cannabis Xmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Long before Christmas was all about the birth of Jesus Christ it was a celebration of the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, which falls between December 21 and 22.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">During that parties and xmas pagan time Cannabis was part of the tradition in many forms. Smoked, eated or in drinks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Viking Times<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Though harsh winter months lay ahead, ancient Europeans turned the long, dark nights of late December into a party, known as Yule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">To calm the gods and ward away evil before bedtime, pagans and early Christians smudged their homes and stables with an auspicious number of nine herbs, such as juniper, evergreen resins, milk thistle, mugwort, and likely cannabis, wrote Christian R\u00e4stch in <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books\/about\/Pagan_Christmas.html?id=kGIoDwAAQBAJ&amp;redir_esc=y\"><em>Pagan Christmas<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img width=\"485\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/552a4225c920b7fcfb61807b78cdbb97-485x700.png\" alt=\"viking traditions\" class=\"wp-image-713\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/552a4225c920b7fcfb61807b78cdbb97-485x700.png 485w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/552a4225c920b7fcfb61807b78cdbb97-208x300.png 208w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/552a4225c920b7fcfb61807b78cdbb97-768x1108.png 768w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/552a4225c920b7fcfb61807b78cdbb97-8x12.png 8w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/552a4225c920b7fcfb61807b78cdbb97-17x24.png 17w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/552a4225c920b7fcfb61807b78cdbb97-25x36.png 25w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/552a4225c920b7fcfb61807b78cdbb97-33x48.png 33w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/552a4225c920b7fcfb61807b78cdbb97.png 794w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Saint Nicolas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth \/ And the smoke, it encircled his head like a wreath,\u201d wrote Clement Clarke Moore in his 1823 poem, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poems\/43171\/a-visit-from-st-nicholas\"><em>A Visit from St. Nicholas<\/em><\/a> (aka <em>\u2018Twas the Night Before Christmas<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The jolly, pipe-smoking Santa icon harkens back to an bygone era of smoking of not just tobacco, but baccy: a pungent mixture of forest and meadow herbs smoked at Christmastime that often contained cannabis, according to R\u00e4stch. In <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books\/about\/Pagan_Christmas.html?id=kGIoDwAAQBAJ&amp;redir_esc=y\"><em>Pagan Christmas<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> he wrote that Germans had a special word for the pop of cannabis seeds in their Christmas baccy, which they called <em>knastert<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img width=\"507\" height=\"700\" src=\"https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MerryOldSanta-507x700.jpg\" alt=\"Old Santa\" class=\"wp-image-714\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MerryOldSanta-507x700.jpg 507w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MerryOldSanta-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MerryOldSanta-768x1061.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MerryOldSanta-9x12.jpg 9w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MerryOldSanta-17x24.jpg 17w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MerryOldSanta-26x36.jpg 26w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MerryOldSanta-35x48.jpg 35w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/MerryOldSanta.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">The Hemp Soup<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books\/about\/The_Great_Book_of_Hemp.html?id=w0qvkVGO0sgC&amp;redir_esc=y\"><em>The Great Book of Hemp<\/em><\/a>, Rowan Robinson writes of an old Christmas Eve tradition still seen in Poland and Lithuania today: <em>semieniatka<\/em>, or hemp seed soup, is offered to deceased family members who come back to visit their families over the holidays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Robinson speculates the custom stretches back to ancient Scythian culture where cannabis was inextricably linked to rituals surrounding death and funerals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Maybe we lost an old great tradition and we shall recover it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img width=\"700\" height=\"477\" src=\"https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orig_hemp-seed-soup-20170719214252230351ass47-700x477.jpg\" alt=\"hemp soup\" class=\"wp-image-715\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orig_hemp-seed-soup-20170719214252230351ass47-700x477.jpg 700w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orig_hemp-seed-soup-20170719214252230351ass47-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orig_hemp-seed-soup-20170719214252230351ass47-768x523.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orig_hemp-seed-soup-20170719214252230351ass47-1536x1046.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orig_hemp-seed-soup-20170719214252230351ass47-2048x1395.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orig_hemp-seed-soup-20170719214252230351ass47-16x12.jpg 16w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orig_hemp-seed-soup-20170719214252230351ass47-24x16.jpg 24w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orig_hemp-seed-soup-20170719214252230351ass47-36x25.jpg 36w, https:\/\/cannadaily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/orig_hemp-seed-soup-20170719214252230351ass47-48x33.jpg 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before Christmas was all about the birth of Jesus Christ it was a celebration of the winter solstice, the longest night of the&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[94],"tags":[7,301,216,17,219,303,302,304,305,300],"gutentor_comment":181,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v17.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Old Cannabis Xmas - CannaDaily<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"During that parties and xmas pagan time Cannabis was part of the tradition in many forms. 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