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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. 24, 1885, p.3.

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

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Before 2016, Australian law considered cannabis an illegal drug. While it may be legal in ACT it remains illegal under Commonwealth law and the legal situation remains fluid (Senate Community Affairs References Committee 2020 ). NCSL (2021) State Medical Marijuana Laws, [link]. A recent study by Lintzeris et al.

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10 badass sustainable cannabis flowers, joints, hash, and more

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The exploding legal cannabis market operates under regulations that protect them from law enforcement, but also complicate farmers’ traditional methods of doing things: more waste is produced in complying with seed-to-sale tracking, which includes tagging every single plant with a plastic card detailing its crop and batch information.

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