An edict issued to banish idolatry and superstition among the Indians punished cures performed with pipiltzintzintli, a herbal concoction which, it has been argued, contained hemp seeds and flowers. The penalty was twenty-five lashes. The chapter calls it the first formal prohibition relating, indirectly, to cannabis in Mexican territory; there is no record of the plant being smoked there before the mid-nineteenth century.[1]
Listed for context. No score change is recorded for Mexico here.
References
- A Historical Approach to the Criminalization of Marijuana Use in MexicoJosé Domingo Schievenini · In Cannabis: Global Histories, edited by Lucas Richert, James H. Mills · MIT Press · 2021 · pp. 132–133 · ISBN 9780262366137
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