ot, ganja, reefer, and Kush. Marijuana is mainly used in a pipe, bowl, joint, blunt, or in a rare case a vaporizer. Marijuana was used for other things in the early centuries other than smoking. Hemp, the marijuana plant, was used for fiber cloth, paper, and even as food in the early centuries (Earleywine 3). Weed has so many different and helpful things it can be used for. People would make rope out of marijuana and use it to build their houses in the early centuries (14). People grew hemp for industrial reasons as well as pleasurable reasons. The main reason why Marijuana spread so quickly through the eastern hemisphere was not because of its effects while smoking it, but because of its industrial use (Earleywine 4). Marijuana's industrial use started out in Taiwan and spread throughout the world. Cannabis's first use as a drug was first documented in 200 A.D. in the country of China. Shen Neng was the man who got the credit. He was the ruler of China at the time and used marijuana. His teachings were to use this drug as medicine for pain and flatulence (Earleywine 11). Even in the early centuries marijuana was used with little harm.
             If marijuana was treated like it was in the early centuries, we wouldn't have the problems we do today in the United States. Hemp was finally introduced to North America in 1545 by the Spanish. In 1611 the drug was introduced to Jamestown and was later grown as a crop alongside tobacco. At first it was grown as a source of fiber. In later years marijuana was replaced by cotton as major crop cash. Marijuana was then basically no existent until the 1920's. It was used in some medicine by it was hardly any compared to opium and cocaine. Its recreational use came back during the Jazz era. Marijuana use was basically restricted to the use of jazz bands and people in show business. Marijuana clubs later spread out throughout bigger cities. These clubs were called "Tea Pads" and a...