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Bali’s Cannabis-Loving Tourists Find Themselves in Hot Water Over Drug Laws

Veriheal

On April 17, 2005, nine young Australians were handcuffed and detained in Bali on drug trafficking charges. Based on his confession, he obtained these illicit goods by purchasing them in Thailand because he lived in Thailand before and they are for his consumption. kilograms of heroin (valued at USD $2.8 million) out of the country.

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

Cannabis Law Report

The recreational use of cannabis is well known and attributed to its power as a psychotropic plant, specifically due to the cannabinoid tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). These were news stories focusing on the use of cannabinoids for chronic cancer pain or inhibiting tumour growth, and mental illness. 2016 ; Sznitman et al. Discussion.

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Shemshemet: Cannabis in Ancient Egypt

SpeedWeed

Hash was very common as was opium” (Zias, 2005). The presence of cannabinoids in the tissues of Egyptian mummies brings up the possibility that Cannabis was used recreationally/religiously or medicinally by the early Egyptians. These results are so unusual that they cast some doubt over the cannabinoid findings as well.