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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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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. 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).

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

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Next thing we have here is that there is no regulation on onsite consumption at a retailer. One a consumption retail license that would allow for edible products only. And then you see the consumption version of that, where folks would be sold a small amount of cannabis or concentrate that they could use on site.