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A potted history

Submitted by Marijuana News on Fri, 09/25/2015 - 08:45

For thousands of years cannabis has been valued as a versatile herbal medicine. In the twentieth century, prescription gave way to proscription. Might this ancient remedy be about to regain its healing reputation? By Stephanie Pain

 

Earliest evidence: ~2700 BC

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Cannabis sativa is thought to have been grown for at least 12,000 years, initially for fibre and grain. “The plant arose in Central Asia, but once people began growing it, it spread very quickly,” says Ethan Russo, a psychopharmacologist at biotechnology firm Phytecs, based in Los Angeles, California, and a historian of medical cannabis. The earliest use of cannabis as a medicine is attributed to the legendary Chinese Emperor

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