The Oldest Cannabis Recipe

The "oldest cookbook ever written," known as "De Honesta Voluptate Et Valetudine" (On honourable pleasure and health), almost 550-years ago, includes a drink recipe calling for Cannabis flower products. Probably written in 1465 by Bartolomeo Platina, Written in Latin.

Oldest Cannabis Recipe

The English Translation of the recipe is:

To make cannabis yourself known as flax for thread [the fiber hemp variety]
Use a mallet to crush clods [buds] collect after good harvest
Taken as food in wine or cake
Add cannabis to nard oil in an iron pot
Crush together over some heat [decarboxylated to convert any nonpsychoactive THCa to psychoactive THC] until juice
A health drink of cannabis nectar
Carefully treat food and divide for the stomach and the head
finally remember everything in excess may be harmful or criminal.