Marijuana Revolution
Channel: TheArtConcept
Date: 2016-11-06

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Cannabis was additionally said in a few therapeutic messages by the antiquated Assyrians, who alluded to the hemp plant as "qunnabu" (a clear etymological related of "cannabis"). Some Biblical researchers trust that "qunnabu" is the same as "kaneh bosm" (interpreted as "sweet-smelling stick" in Exodus 30:23, a verse in which God orders Moses to make a blessed oil made out of cinnamon, kaneh bosm, and kassia) (Russo). 
In the Roman world, cannabis was portrayed in the great therapeutic compositions of Galen and Dioscorides, both of whom creatively prescribed the "juice of the seed" to avoid ear infections, sexual lack of engagement, and tooting. It was additionally frequently endorsed as a pain relieving or painkiller. 
In 1994, the most established archeological confirmation of therapeutic cannabis utilize was found in an Egyptian tomb dated back to the third century AD. The tomb contained a young lady who had passed on in labor close by hints of hashish (concentrated cannabis tar) which had likely been utilized to ease work torments. 
An Irish doctor, William B. O'Shaughnessy, brought learning of the medicinal properties of cannabis to Europe in 1839. He watched its utilization in India and afterward tried different things with liquor based cannabis tinctures to attempt to treat stiffness, rabies, cholera, lockjaw, and writhings. He portrayed it as a pain relieving and an "against convulsive cure of the best esteem." In Victorian circumstances, cannabis came to be well known as a technique for treating asthma, headaches, neuralgia, feeble a sleeping disorder, and excruciating monthly cycle and labor. By the late nineteenth century, in any case, its utilization started to fade as more grounded, more customary medications wound up plainly accessible.
Weed's legitimate therapeutic status was finished by a political adversity. In 1937, the Marihuana Tax Act, a bill intended to boycott cannabis altogether, was brought before Congress. The chief of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, Harry Anslinger (who was, incidentally, a previous Prohibition official), drove the assault on weed with spurious charges of franticness and viciousness that concentrated on Hispanics, African Americans, and different minorities. 
A standout amongst the most vocal gatherings to contradict the bill was the American Medical Association (AMA). Dr. William Woodward, the AMA's main representative, contended that cannabis was not hazardous and that its therapeutic utilize would be extremely diminished by the proposed measures. The Prohibitionists won using an efficient battle of deception. From that point forward, pot has been practically unlawful in the United States.