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=== Hinduism === {{main| Entheogenic use of cannabis}} [[Bhang]] is an [[cannabis edible|edible preparation]] of [[cannabis (drug)|cannabis]] native to the [[Indian subcontinent]]. It has been used in food and drink as early as 1000 BCE by [[Hindu]]s in [[ancient India]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/httpmunchies-vice-comarticlesthe-bhang-lassi-is-how-hindus-drink-themselves-high-for-shiva/ |title=The Bhang Lassi Is How Hindus Drink Themselves High for Shiva |author=Staelens, Stefanie |website=Vice.com |date=10 March 2015 |access-date=August 10, 2017}}</ref> The earliest known reports regarding the sacred status of cannabis in the [[Indian subcontinent]] come from the [[Atharva Veda]] estimated to have been written sometime around 2000β1400 BCE,<ref>{{cite book |title= Forces of Habit: Drugs and the Making of the Modern World |last= Courtwright |first= David |year= 2001 |publisher= Harvard Univ. Press |isbn= 0-674-00458-2 |page= 39 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=GHqV3elHYvMC&q=Forces+of+Habit&pg=PP10}}</ref> which mentions cannabis as one of the "five sacred plants... which release us from anxiety" and that a guardian angel resides in its leaves. The [[Vedas]] also refer to it as a "source of happiness", "joy-giver" and "liberator", and in the ''Raja Valabba'', the gods send hemp to the human race.<ref name=pmid7024492>{{cite journal |last1=Touw |first1=Mia |title=The Religious and Medicinal Uses of Cannabis in China, India and Tibet |journal=Journal of Psychoactive Drugs |date=January 1981 |volume=13 |issue=1 |pages=23β34 |doi=10.1080/02791072.1981.10471447 |pmid=7024492 }}</ref>
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