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Based on an ancient Oriental design and reimagined here as the triumphant spirit of Ja.

Conquering Lion Dragon

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Weed is a truly magnificent plant. It has so many wonderful powers. It helps anxiety, it increases athletic performance and it is the glorious green glue that holds relationships together. You just can’t go wrong when weed is involved.

Where there is weed, there is a way.

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Back in 1971, a group of students who called themselves The Waldos would congregate during school to consume cannabis. One day, a fellow student presented them with a treasure map to his brother-in-law’s marijuana garden growing illegally in the forest on Point Reyes Peninsula. The Waldos decided to meet after school and drive to Point Reyes, but since school got out at 3:10 pm, and some of the Waldos had after-school activities lasting an hour, they chose to meet at precisely 4:20 pm at the Louis Pasteur statue.

After school, they would try to find the patch. It eluded them, but after tossing around the phrase 420 all day, the number permanently entered their lexicon, and they began using it in everyday speech to covertly discuss getting high without tipping off parents or teachers.

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This inauspicious tool undoubtedly was invented and lost and reinvented and lost through the millennia that humans have enjoyed a relationship with Cannabis among other plants and herbs Nature's bounty has provided.  

But how did the modern bong get popularized today?  Let's take a look at the Etymology.

The word bong is an adaptation of the Thai word bong or baung (Thai: บ้อง, [bɔ̂ŋ]), which refers to a cylindrical wooden tube, pipe, or container cut from bamboo, and which also refers to the bong used for smoking.

Clearly "bong" is common vernacular as it describes a rather simplistic tool made from local materials readily available.  However this tool was not relegated to commoners.  In fact it's popularity was driven by it's Royal Roots.

Excavations of a kurgan in Russia in 2013 revealed that Scythian tribal chiefs used gold vessels 2400 years ago to smoke cannabis and opium. The kurgan was discovered when construction workers were clearing land for the construction of a power line.[4]

Anthropologists believe that bongs were first popularized in the African and Asian regions of the world, though there’s still some debate as to which region first sparked its mainstream popularity. Regardless, in both groups, bong use ultimately spread like wildfire.

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