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Some U.S. states have legalized marijuana, but Peter Reuter argues that restricting promotion of marijuana once it is legal is more complex than it may initially appear. [ 82 ] According to the United Nations' World Drug Report, cannabis "was the world's most widely produced, trafficked, and consumed drug in the world in 2010", with between 128 ...
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. Initially, cannabis was reduced to a powder and mixed with wine for administration. In the 1970s, synthetic THC was created to be administered as the drug Marinol in a capsule ...
Marijuana use in the United States is three times above the global average, but in line with other Western democracies. Forty-four percent of American 12th graders have tried the drug at least once, and the typical age of first-use is 16, similar to the typical age of first-use for alcohol but lower than the first-use age for other illicit drugs.
Tuesday was the World Wide Web's 30th birthday.Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the service in 1989 as way for scientists to share data. The Internet and hyperlinks already existed, but no one had ...
Over a hundred of the 224 drugs mentioned in the Huangdi Neijing – an early Chinese medical text – are herbs. [11] Herbs also commonly featured in the medicine of ancient India, where the principal treatment for diseases was diet. [12] A sample of raw opium. Opioids are among the world's oldest known drugs.
Cannabis also has a long history of being used for medicinal purposes, and as a recreational drug known by several slang terms, such as marijuana, pot or weed. Various cannabis strains have been bred, often selectively to produce high or low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a cannabinoid and the plant's principal psychoactive constituent .
In the late 1970s, West became interested in the medicinal properties of marijuana when he observed a Manchioneal fishing community looking for fish at night. [5] The fishermen had been smoking marijuana. [1] He was the first Jamaican to be appointed as professor in the University of the West Indies Department of Pharmacology in 1981. [2]
One academic source places the date of introduction of ganja in Jamaica at 1845. [9] The term came with 19th century workers whose descendants are now known as Indo-Jamaicans. [10] The word was used in Europe as early as 1856, when the British enacted a tax on the "ganja" trade. [11] In 1913, Jamaica banned cannabis with the Ganja Law. [12]