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TIL according to genetic and archaeological evidence, cannabis was first domesticated about 12,000 years ago in East Asia during the early Neolithic period. The oldest written record of cannabis usage is the Greek historian Herodotus's reference to the Scythians taking cannabis steam baths.

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