re: #27 Jay C

Archeologists think it may have been a Scythian from the West Eurasian Steppe some time around 1500 BCE: ISTR they dug up a bronze bowl in (?Ukraine? Bulgaria?) and found that the crud still clinging to it was cannabis resin: it’s thought they burned the weed under the bowl, then picked it up and huffed the smoke.
But for whatever reason, they never got around to inventing the bong….

because Coke wasn’t a company yet, so no ready-made emergency party device.