The debate over the "reed" used to offer Jesus a drink during his crucifixion and the ingredient in the Holy Anointing Oil has sparked controversy. While traditional interpretations point to calamus, recent research suggests that the sativa hemp stalk may be the more likely candidate. Sula Benet's research on the Hebrew word "kaneh-bosm" further raises questions about the role of cannabis in biblical narratives.
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“And straightway one of them ran, and took a spunge, and filled it with vinegar, and put it on a reed, and gave him to drink.”
Sula Benet demonstrated that the word for cannabis is kaneh-bosm, also rendered in traditional Hebrew as kaneh or kannabus. The root kan in this construction means “reed” or “hemp”, while bosm means “aromatic”. This word appears five times in the Old Testament; in the books of Exodus, the Song of Songs, Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel.
Cannabis sativa is an annual herbaceous flowering plant indigenous to Eastern Asia, but now of cosmopolitan distribution due to widespread cultivation.[1] It has been cultivated throughout recorded history, used as a source of industrial fiber, seed oil, food, recreation, religious and spiritual moods and medicine. Each part of the plant is harvested differently, depending on the purpose of its use. The species was first classified by Carl Linnaeus in 1753.[2] The word sativa means "things that are cultivated."
Cannabis/Sativa Hemp grows 20+' tall.
Hemp plants and marijuana plants are both the same species. Legally, hemp is defined as a cannabis plant that contains 0.3 percent or less THC, while marijuana is a cannabis plant that contains more than 0.3 percent THC. CBD can be derived from both hemp and marijuana plants.
sativa hemp
"reed"
Sweet Flag
Acorus calamus
Sweet Flag family (Acoraceae)
Description: This perennial plant is 1–3½' tall, consisting of tufts of basal leaves that emerge directly from a spreading rootstock. These basal leaves are erect and sword-shaped, resembling the basal leaves of Iris spp. (Irises), but more green.
Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has banned the use of the rootstocks as a food additive.
Sweet flag may not be a good choice for gardens visited by children and pets. This complicated plant may present varying levels of toxicity that depend largely on its variety and place of origin. The specific name calamus is derived from Greek κάλαμος (kálamos, meaning "reed")
While cannabis is non-toxic (not a single death has ever been directly attributed to it, despite much effort being given to document such a fatality), calamus is most definitely a toxin. The FDA banned calamus from uses in food and medicines in 1968 as calamus contains more than 75% asarone.
Did God command Moses to add poison in His Holy Anointing Oil? Or was it Cannabis Kaneh-Bosm A.K.A. Sativa Hemp? What was the "reed" used to offer Jesus a drink? 1–3½' Calamus, 1.5' Hyssop, or 20+' Sativa Hemp?
What was the "reed" placed in Jesus right hand? Calamus, Hyssop, or Sativa Hemp?
Matthew 27:29
“And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!”