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

Cannabis Law Report

Authors of texts may use more surreptitious, and sometimes unconscious, literary devices such as rhetoric, trope, metaphor, or juxtaposition—techniques that evoke moral positions, predictions of possible effects, and prescribe solutions (Entman 1993 ; Johnson-Cartee 2005 ; Weaver 2007 ).

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Shemshemet: Cannabis in Ancient Egypt

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Cannabis extracts have been employed for irrigation in diseases of the anus, and in form of compresses the drug has been applied to sore toenails. In Rhamses’ papyrus, washing sore eyes with extracts from cannabis and also from some other plant is recommended. Hash was very common as was opium” (Zias, 2005).