Posts Tagged ‘history of marijuana’

Raphael Mechoulam, an 80-year-old chemistry professor at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University discovered THC but has only sampled it once.

Medical marijuana has been used for hundreds of years to treat many illnesses, to put things into perspective we need to look way back in time. One of our readers has let me know about a wonderful, interactive graphic he has created, which allows you to see how medical marijuana was being used over the [...]

Although cannabis has been used in Eastern medical traditions for several thousand years, it was the mid-nineteenth century before it came into regular pharmacological use in the west; in fact, the Victorian era saw the publication of over one-hundred learned papers extolling its use for various ailments.Prior to this scientific interest, though, marijuana was used [...]

Plants have always been used as a source of medicine, so why not use medical marijuana to help patients? If we are honest, most of us think of marijuana or weed, ganja, chillums, cannabis, pot, skunk, and any number of alternative names (see marijuana slang) as a drug that induces feelings of happy tranquillity. The [...]