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 B.C., it was used as

an incense by the Assyrians Herbal, a Chinese book of medicine from

the second Century B.C., 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 indegestion.

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

emperor Shen Nung thought using it as a seditive was all right. In

2,700 B.C. that same "mythical" emperor said it helped female

weakness, gout, rheumatism, malaria, beri-

marijuana and heroin..." (Snyder,1985,p46) The National Organization

for said purposes was helpful. The U.S. Pharmacopeia last listed

the discomfort and nausea associated with chemotherapy taken to stop

facts Ma'am: It is illegal to own or sell marijuana. It is a

controlling the cultivation, importation, manufacture, wholesale

In 1979 (A.D.) Carlton E. Turner visited China and found

of people out of jail/prison and save the government money.

until 1941 when "The two main professional directories of drugs in the

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