Facts About Marijuana
Facts About MarijuanaMarijuana 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 was grown for it's fiber
qualities in 1611. (Snyder, 1985) The U.S. Pharmacopeia had it listed
as a useful medicine from the year 1870 to 1941. A Pharmacopeia is "a
book of directions and requirements for the preparations of medicines,
generally published by an authority; a collection or stock of drugs."
This tells us the U.S....
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