The cannabis tree indeed thrives in the land of Aceh. Even the type of plants then is classified as a narcotic it is already there in the Earth Dagger since time immemorial.
The citizens of Aceh regular use of roots, leaves and stems of cannabis as a medicine and cooking spice. No wonder if hashish is then identified with the Aceh. But is it true that the citizens of Aceh can not be separated from cannabis?
The night crept slowly. The cool breeze is blown hit the bespectacled man through the gap the walls of the bamboo Canteen Smea in Lampineung, Banda Aceh. In his hands, a gadget black occasionally it slide.
"Coffee first," said Tarmizi A Hamid while receiving Rappler in the corner of a coffee shop in Banda Aceh City. Collector of ancient manuscripts of Aceh this friendly looking. He akrap called Check Midi.
From him, Rappler asked about the traces of marijuana in Mecca. Moreover, Aceh implements Islamic sharia law, which forbids the goods memabukan such as marijuana.
"Hundreds of years ago, cannabis seeds made for spices, then the stem and roots as medicines," Check Midi began to tell the usefulness of cannabis in the kingdom of Aceh Darussalam. He mentions the roots of the marijuana is very good for diseases of the blood sweet.
"The people of Aceh first plant it to a positive thing," he said. When Aceh several times, there is a war, tree of marijuana used as a medicine and anesthetic.
First, the word Check Midi, there has been no chemical drugs. The Aceh people survive with the use of herbal medicines from the foliage, one of only marijuana because of the limitations of pharmaceutical technology at the time.
Check Midi said in the years around the 1970s, cannabis plants still planted in the pots of the front of the house. "The goal for herbs spices and medicines," said the man aged 48 years.
Cannabis unbelievable powerful to make the meat tender when cooked. The typical cuisine of Aceh, which was often sprinkled with marijuana is Gravy Beulangong and a few other dishes from meat.