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This 5 page paper looks at the history and use of marijuana, also known as cannabis. The paper starts with the ancient world an its’ use for ritual purposes as well as food and cloth and traces the its position to the modern day and the laws which prohibit it allow its use. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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a resinous form. The plant is cannabis sativa L. subsp. indica (= C. indica Lam.). It is most well known for its impact on the mind and ability to give
a high. As a drug marijuana is comes from the mature leaves of the female plants which are dried, and usually
smoked. However, when looking at the historical use of marijuana it is not only used as a drug, but with many other uses, and the benefits or potential of the
properties of the drug are also viewed in the context of the society in which they are used. Historically Marijuana is believed
to originate from central Asia (Zuardi, 2006). There is evidence supporting the use of marijuana going back to prehistory and the use of the smoke in the Neolithic age when
burned seed were found in a braxier located at a burial site where there may have been ritual taking place (Rudgley, 1999). Marijuana is first seen with
the weaving of hemp between 7,000 and 8,000 BCE1 (Guither, 2007). There have been the discovery of seeds being used as food 6,000 BCE as well as for textiles in
4,000 BCE in China and it is also recorded as being used as a medicine in China in 2727 (Narconon, 2001). Some of the most well known users of
the substance as a drug were the Hashshashins, meaning Hashish eater form the area that is known as Syria today as well as Hindus in Nepal and India. In
Sanskrit the plant was called ganjike, and the drug referred to as soma in the Vedass religious text is believed to be associated with marijuana and was used due to
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