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Herbal Magick, Sacred Plants & Entheogens

Cannabis and the Soma Solution

by Chris Bennett

Argues that the sacred drink soma of the Rigveda and haoma of the Avesta were cannabis preparations, in a long debate that has also proposed fly agaric, ephedra and other plants. Useful as a survey of the textual evidence; scholars remain divided on the identification.

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