Marijuana
In this report I will show you my views on , if it should be legal,
for medical and/or recreational purposes.
has many names: Dope, Marihuana, Ganja, Pot Mary Jane, Cannabis
Sativa (Scientific) to name a few.
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 ...
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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 ...
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but of doubtful value. Also employed to color corn remedies."
The next pharmacopeia released in 1942 (I gather they were relaesed every six
years) did not have cannabis sativa in it. "The 1937 U.S. dispensatory
said:"Cannabis is used in medicine to relieve pain, encourage sleep, and to
soothe restlessness. We have very little definite knowledge of the effects of
therapeutic quantities, but in some persons it appears to produce a euphoria and
will often relieve migrainic headaches. One of the great hindrances to the wider
use of this drug is the great variability and the potency of different samples
of Cannabis which renders it impossible to approximate the proper dose of ...
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