Cannabis has been popular in India since the beginning of recorded history and is often taken as a drink.
Nuts and spices, like almonds, pistachios, poppy seeds, pepper, ginger and sugar are combined with cannabis and boiled with milk.
Yogurt is also used instead of milk. Bhang is also rolled and eaten in small balls. Bhang is about the strength of Western marijuana.
Because milk contains fat, mixing cannabis with milk is an effective means of extracting THC but ingesting marijuana takes longer to feel the effects and is less consistent.
Bhang Lassi Preparation as via Anthony Bourdain's experience on the travel channel.
During the Middle Ages, soldiers often took a drink of bhang before entering battle, just as Westerners took a swig of whiskey.
One story tells of the Sikh leader, Gobind Singhs's soldiers being scared by an attacking elephant with a sword in his trunk.
Terrified, the men nearly mutinied until Singh gave one courageous man a mixture of bhang and opium.
The herbs have him the strength and agility to slip under the elephant from below and kill him without endangering himself. This act of courage led Singh's men to victory over the enemy.
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