>https://www.westword.com/news/cannabis-time-capsule-1893-marijuana-stops-cannibalism-in-africa-germans-say-5828611
Cannabis Time Capsule, 1893: Marijuana Stops Cannibalism in Africa, Germans Say
The monarch was trying to establish his own kingdom in Africa in what we now know as the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the piece talks about how Wissmann apparently watched as the "Lubuku" people went from being savage cannibals to peaceful hippies who wouldn't even kill an animal after smoking "riambo", or as the natives called it, "bashilange." You guessed it: They were getting high.
"These people, who before had been aggressive leaders in wars are now living in peace," Wissmann wrote about the Lubuku and their herb-smoking.