"The astonishing resemblance between the Semitic 'kanbos' and the Scythian 'cannabis' leads me to suppose that the Scythian word was of Semitic origin. These etymological discussions run parallel to arguments drawn from history. Someone changed that to leads to the assumption, probably not noticing that it's a quote. Which may be caused by the fact that there's no 'unquote', but I'm not sure where to place that.  July 1, 2005 08:19 (UTC)