She starts with the Sumerian Goddess Ishtar who was associated with cannabis in the third millennium BC, which was 'a time when both goddesses and plants were revered as healers.and up until the Semitic invasion in 2600 BC, women practiced the healing arts without restriction.' In her book, 'Tokin' Women: A 4,000-Year Herstory of Women and Marijuana,' author Nola Evangelista (aka Cal NORML Deputy Director Ellen Komp), looks at 50 women connected in some form to cannabis, from ancient to modern. (Also making it not acceptable: patriarchy, misogyny, double standards regarding gender and many other things needing our attention.) And as this is a plant that 99.5 percent of us will actively seek out in its female form, that's not acceptable. Women's contributions to cannabis, past and present, are-brace yourself-often overlooked, ignored or forgotten. March is Women's History Month, or as Presidente Cheetolini might ask, 'The who what now? Really? A whole month, huh?'
