Pottery vessel with opium found at Tel YehudAssaf Peretz, Israel Antiquities Authority This finding of opium in a Canaanite grave confirms the belief that psychoactive drugs were part of the ancient world.   https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/360096   This is the 2020 find of cannabis at an ancient Jewish alter.  This cannabis find, however, is dated 600 years after the opium discovery: