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The history of cannabis and its usage by humans dates back to at least the third millennium BC in written history, and possibly as far back as the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8800–6500 BCE) based on archaeological evidence. For millennia, the plant has been valued for its use for fiber and rope, as food and medicine, and for its psychoactive ...
The ancient Greeks learned of the use of cannabis by observing Scythian funerals, during which cannabis was consumed. [2] In Akkadian, cannabis was known as qunubu (𐎯𐎫𐎠𐎭𐏂). [2] The word was adopted in to the Hebrew language as qaneh bosem (קָנֶה בֹּשׂם). [2]
The history of medicinal cannabis goes back to the ancient times. Ancient physicians in many parts of the world mixed cannabis into medicines to treat pain and other ailments. In the 19th century, cannabis was introduced for therapeutic use in Western Medicine. Since then, there have been several advancements in how the drug is administered.
The oldest pollen thought to be from Cannabis is from Ningxia, China, on the boundary between the Tibetan Plateau and the Loess Plateau, dating to the early Miocene, around 19.6 million years ago. Cannabis was widely distributed over Asia by the Late Pleistocene. The oldest known Cannabis in South Asia dates to around 32,000 years ago. [92]
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2016: Australia legalized cannabis for medical use. [95] 2016: Poland legalized cannabis for medical use. [96] 2016: Norway legalized cannabis for medical use. [97] 2016: Georgia's Supreme Court ruled that imprisonment for possession of small amounts of cannabis is unconstitutional. [98] 2017: Germany legalized cannabis for medical use. [99]
It is not known when Rastafari first claimed cannabis to be sacred, but it is clear that by the late 1940s Rastafari was associated with cannabis smoking at the Pinnacle community of Leonard Howell. Rastafari see cannabis as a sacramental and deeply beneficial plant that is the Tree of Life mentioned in the Bible and quote Revelation 22:2 ...
The scientists used objective measures of sleep to show, for the first time, that a cannabis component known as cannabinol, or CBN, improves sleep in rats. “For decades, cannabis folklore has ...