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