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Paper: The transition of cannabis into the mainstream of Australian healthcare: framings in professional medical publications

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Medical publications, are, in the main fairly positive toward cannabis. Published by The Journal of Cannabis Research. Medicinal cannabis has been legalised for use for a range of specified medical conditions in Australia since 2016. At the same time, the outlook on cannabis research data is largely positive. Background.

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Dr. H. H. Kane and the 19th Century “Hash-Heesh” Smoking Parlors of NYC

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The Marijuana Review was a clipping zine that Michael Aldrich – the first person in the United States to get a degree in marijuana history – would use to circulate interesting historical facts about cannabis and other drugs. As for “hash-heesh”, there were many ways to spell hashish back in the 1800s, and that was one of them.

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Shemshemet: Cannabis in Ancient Egypt

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Excerpted from Cannabis and the Soma Solution. Besides this linguistic source, pollen analysis of ancient soil layers and deep tissue samples from Egyptian mummies, have indicated that in Egypt, like much of the rest of the ancient world, cannabis held an important role. shemshemet the Egyptian word for cannabis. Shemshemet.