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

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I suspect Dr. Kane had exaggerated the effects of the pot in order to moralize about the evils of hash smoking, as he was a prolific anti-drug writer as well as being a practitioner of “modern” medicine. As for “hash-heesh”, there were many ways to spell hashish back in the 1800s, and that was one of them. View original article.

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

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Medicinal cannabis has been legalised for use for a range of specified medical conditions in Australia since 2016. We also used manifest textual analysis to search for word frequencies, and specific conditions referred to in the articles retrieved. Spasticity from neurological conditions. Background. Conclusions. Bonini et al.

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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). 3000 years under favorable conditions.

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You can now get a license to grow and sell cannabis from the state of California

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And they’re setting the hours, the working conditions, and shifts, they’re doing things that would define them as employees under the state labor law, but just claiming they’re 1099 instead of W2. Some of that still needs to get hashed out. And sort of do a dispatch from the road or other premises by having different tiers.