marijuana
In this report I will show you my views on Marijuana, if it should be legal, for medical and/or recreational purposes.Marijuana 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 BC, it was used as an incense by the Assyrians Herbal, a Chinese book of medicine from the second Century BC, 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 indigestion. 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 e
Turner visited China and found marijuana was not in use in formal medical places. Pharmacopoeia last listed cannabis ("the dried flower tops of the pistillate plants of cannabis sativa") in 1936. Basically that's the government admitting that they are losing the war on drugs. (Lovinge,1985,p434) That years epitome of the pharmacopoeia and the national formula described the drug for physicians thus a narcotic poison, producing a mild delirium. A Pharmacopoeia is "a book of directions and requirements for the preparations of medicines, generally published by an authority; a collection or stock of drugs. Q: How can you tell quality? A: Smoke it. Marijuana takes away the discomfort and nausea associated with chemotherapy taken to stop the growth of cancer. 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 migraine headaches. Penalties vary widely in each state, for growing and selling it is almost always a felony. Q: How do you take it? A: Smoke it. (end of interview)Marijuana doesn't cause brain damage. (Snyder 1985,p38) It is still used as a medicine in the Middle East and Asia, and is completely legal in Amsterdam. The next pharmacopoeia released in 1942 (I gather they were released every six years) did not have cannabis sativa in it.
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