Smoking 'flower' on 4/20? Cannabis

High time to celebrate: NBC interviewed people smoking weed on Hippie Hill, SF, on 4/20

(NBC Bay Area) What used to be an unofficial cannabis celebration on April 20th (four-twenty in American cannabis culture) in San Francisco has grown into a huge, city-sanctioned free event, and just about anyone one walks up to is happy to expound on what he or she loves about it.

• Medicinal Plants Workshop, USC's Dr. James Adams
• Science finds new birthplace of marijuana
• Healing with Medicinal Plants of the West: Cultural and Scientific Basis for Their Use (4th ed.) by Dr. James Adams, Cecilia Garcia

Sadhus smoke herb in spiritual India?

Naga sadhu smoking ganja (weed) in Gangasagar Fair Transit Camp, Kolkata (Calcutta), India

Entheogenic use of cannabis to 'bring out the divine': Marijuana [or Chinese Ma Huang, pronounced as if it were the Spanish name Marijuana/MaryJane, from Mexico] has served as an entheogen—a chemical substance used in religious or spiritual contexts [1]  to bring to the surface inner divinity—in the Indian subcontinent since the Vedic period, dating back to approximately 1500 BCE, but perhaps as far back as 2500 BCE in ancient China. It was introduced to the New World by the Spaniards in 1530-1545... More

• NBC News, Bay Area,  April 25, 2023; Eds., Wisdom Quarterly