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

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Using a content analysis approach, we investigated articles about medicinal cannabis from 2000 to the end of 2019 in the Medical Journal of Australia, Australian Doctor , Medical Observer , Australian Journal of General Practice , Australian Family Physicia n , and Australian Medicine. 2018 ; Frankhauser 2008 ). Data collection.

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Shemshemet: Cannabis in Ancient Egypt

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“…[M]ost physicians in Egypt were priests… elements of religion and magic were closely intertwined with drug use, incantations routinely being uttered prior to administration in order to confer the healing property upon it” (Spencer, 2000). Hash was very common as was opium” (Zias, 2005). Parsche and Nerlich, 1994).