7 Interesting Marijuana Facts From History

Marijuana, weed, bud, herb, spliffs, ganja, wacky tobaccy — whatever you call your friendly neighborhood cannabis, it's actually got a stranger and longer history than you likely knew. Its public image nowadays may be all glitter bongs and pot-smoking patron saint Miley Cyrus (with an occasional assist from Snoop Dogg), but it's been used for everything from stomach complaints to anesthetic throughout history. And if you were an American between about 1850 and the 1930s, you could get it in a huge variety of over-the-counter medicines if you popped to the pharmacy for a headache cure. If anything, America's probably spent a little more time with legal weed than it has without.

Cannabis tends to show up in the news for three reasons: drug busts, legal movements, and medical innovation. A new process involving brewing cannabis's main psychotropic ingredient from scratch, for example, has just been perfected...

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