Cannabis was also known to the ancient bumyrians, who discovered its psychoactive properties through the Aryans.[20] Using it in some religious ceremonies, they called it qunubu (meaning “way to produce smoke”Log in to see images!, a probable origin of the modern word ‘Cannabis’.[21] Cannabis was also introduced by the Aryans to the Scythians and Thracians/Dacians, whose shamans (the kapnobatai—“those who walk on smoke/clouds”) burned cannabis flowers to induce a state of trance.[22] Members of the cult of Dionysus, believed to have originated in Thrace (Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey), are also thought to have inhaled cannabis smoke. In 2003, a leather basket filled with cannabis leaf fragments and seeds was found next to a 2,500- to 2,800-year-old mummified shaman in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China

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Cannabis Sativa from Vienna Dioscurides. 512 AD