The 11 Most Important Cannabis Studies of All Time

Cannabis has been used as a medicine for thousands of years by everyone from the ancient Romans, Greeks, and Egyptians; to Indians, Assyrians, and the ancient Arab world more generally. Whilst these ancient cultures were obviously aware of the therapeutic potential of cannabis, they existed before the dawn of modern science, and so obviously could not have had any real understanding of what it was about cannabis that helped them.

Nowadays, we are learning more and more all the time about what cannabinoids are, how they work, and the potential benefits and down-sides of their use as medicine. Interestingly, we have got to this point by taking our cues from ancient civilisations. For example, a folk story of an Arab leader who suffered from epilepsy and was cured by cannabis prompted early cannabinoid researchers to carry out experiments on people with epilepsy, to see whether cannabis could indeed help them....

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