How long have earthlings been smoking marijuana?
Who were the first people to smoke it?
Did they smoke weed during the middle ages etc?
Was the push to criminalize it really spearheaded by the tobacco industries?
[Munch] It’s all a big conspiricy by RJ Reynolds. [/Munch]
Cleopatra is reported to have used tincture of cannabis to cure some of her ills. I don’t know if it was used topically or (drunken) internally.
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I’ve heard that it was pushed by the newly-legal alcohol concerns attempting to win back their pre-Prohibition market share of the mood-altering substances market.
–Cliffy
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Marijuana use seems to have been first recorded bythe Chinese.
thanks Nost
The timeline from your link was exactly what I had been looking for
FWIW IIRC it was DuPont who pushed for legislation to criminilize this so that they could create a market for a product they could manufacture similar to hemp. YMMV
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And for Spritle’s enquiry, try here about one third of the way down.
Books? how about a book?
* Larry Sloman - The History of Marijuana in America. Reefer Madness -- Price: $35.00
You know what would be great? A smilie for the munchies.
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The link is also a very comprehensive, if biased, source for material related to drug policy.