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

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The Cannabis sativa plant has an incredibly multi-layered, rich, and versatile history of human uses for food and fibre, as well as recreational, and religious and spiritual purposes throughout the world (McPartland and Hegman 2018 ; Aldrich 1997 ; Touw 1981 ; Li 1974 ; Bonini et al. 2018 ; Frankhauser 2008 ). Full size image.

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Shemshemet: Cannabis in Ancient Egypt

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As noted in The Mummy Congress: Under the reign of the pharaohs, Egyptian traders had bartered avidly for seeds of Cannabis sativa. sativa—the flowering tops and leaves that yielded marijuana or the dark resin that produces hashish. But the Egyptians made little mention of the other parts of C. Pringle, 2001).

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The Immortality Key: Lost on The Road to Eleusis

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Carl Ruck, “Since the wine of Dionysus is a mediation between the god’s wild herbal ancestors and the civilized phenomenon of his cultivated and manufactured manifestation in the product fermented from the juice of the grape, it is most probable that this was the way in which the Greeks incorporated hemp into their pharmacopoeia” (Ruck, 2007).