Marijuana History
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Marijuana History
Marijuana originated in the middle east (Taiwan, Korea). China plays an
important part in Marijuana's history. Hoatho, the first chinese physician to
use Cannabis for medical purposes as a painkiller and anesthetic for surgery. In
the Ninth Century B.C., it was used as an incense by the Assyrians Herbal, a
Chinese book of medicine from the second Century B.C., was first to describe it
in print. It was used as an anesthetic 5,000 years ago in ancient china. Many
(*) ancient cultures such as the persians, Greeks, East Indians, Romans, and the
Assyrians for many things. These were what they used it for: the control of
muscle spasms, reduction of pain, and for indegestion. Imagine that if they
still practiced this, instead of taking an Alka Seltzer after you had mom's
Chili or Tacos, you might be sitting in the living room on the LAY-Z Boy,
smoking a joint or however they would take it. The folk medicine of Africa and
Asia have used it as an herbal preparation. A "mythical" and
"legendary" pharmacist and emperor Shen Nung thought using it as a
seditive was all right. In 2,700 B.C. that same "mythical" emperor
said it helped female weakness, gout, rheumatism, malaria, beri-beri (?),
contipation, and absentmindedness. In 1979 (A.D.) Carlton E. Turner visited
China and found marijuana was not in use in formal medical places. J. D. P.
Graham of the Welsh National School of Medicine wrote, "One not need take
to seriously the anecdotal use of it's use for many purposes in China or by the
Hindus in the pre-Christian Millennia ...and by the Arabs!" In 1890 in
England's "Lancet" said cannabis extract was good for neuralgia, fits,
migraine and psychosomatic disorders but not for rheumatic conditions. It is not
easy to tell the dosage because of the variations in potency and the
irregularity in absorbtion. The time delay before the onset of the possible
effects of marijuana lowered it's popularity as a medicine as did the
introduction of a variety of new and better medicines like aspirin, morpheine
(habit forming), chloral, barbituates tranquilizers, and when it got on the list
of drugs thought by the world community to require legal restrictions. Our first
President, George Washington, grew cannabis on his plantation. The cannabis he
grew was more fibrous and is better known as hemp. Hemp was used to make rope,
twine, paper and canvas (the word "canvas" comes from Cannabis) and
was an important crop in the american colonies. In Jamestown, Virginia it ...
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