Weird News: Experts Believe That Jesus May Have Used Cannabis Oil To Perform His Miracles
GettyA depiction of Mary Magdalene anointing the feet of Jesus Christ.
Jesus and his apostles might have used cannabis oil to perform his healing miracles — a controversial theory, and some truly weird news, that is being championed by a number of experts.
Author David Bienenstock, who is also the editor-in-chief of High Times magazine, believes that cannabis was widely available during Jesus’ era 2,000 years ago. He also believes that cannabis was used all across the Middle East to treat various illnesses and ailments.
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.”
Adam Ward/Newspix/Getty ImagesThe New Testament outlines the ingredients that are necessary to make the anointing oil. One of those ingredients might be cannabis.
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.
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.
Most historians believe that “keneh-bosm” refers to the root extract calamus, which is used for its medicinal purposes to this day. But some experts claims that this weird news is the result of a simple mistranslation, which they argue occurred sometime during the third century.
Regardless, people the world over love to think that Jesus was a toker. Indeed, the Stoner Jesus Bible Study in Colorado insists that: “Jesus was peaceful and loving. He went from house to house and was always accepted. Only a stoner could do that.”
