Enjoy wearing your running cabbages when you go to the gym.
The distribution is odd. Note that in the 1930s Polish linguists were busy trying to separate themselves entirely from anything Russian. A new Urheimat of the Slavs was proposed, no longer on what was later Soviet or Russian territory, and the idea of Russians < Scythians meant Scythian was a no-no. Russophobia wound up leading to some strange conclusions, and Benetowa was probably no stranger to it.
They'd rather assume that somehow it came from Semitic, even though the distribution is skewed, the linguistics is a bit off, and while there's an easy means of transmission from Central Asia (where the plant was native) west and south, and a means from N of the Middle East southwards, there's not a decent means of transmission northward. Doesn't mean it's impossible, just not as likely. It took a bit of daredevilry to say that somehow it came in with Jews or Semites, or spread from them (unless Benetowa was into the "Semites are the root of all evil," but mostly she just seemed to want to advocate for marijuana and find justifications for what she wanted).
As soon as you see people find that God really does support what they always wanted and read it into 2500-old texts, so instead of something being bad it's instead sacred, be suspicious. Things aren't usually that convenient, and, as Feynman accurately pointed out, the easiest person to deceive is yourself.
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