Some Hisory On Cannabis Hemp
A Chinese clay beaker was found in early 2005 that was dated at approximately 10,000 years old.
Cannabis was used throughout the world for medicinal purposes before the beginning of recorded history. Without the cannabis hemp plant, there may not have been a recorded history. Many ancient Chinese and Arabic medical texts were written on hemp paper and spoke of the use of cannabis in many forms being used to treat a variety of ailments including malaria, insomnia, constipation, and rheumatism.
From its earliest beginnings in what would now be Northern China through the Asian continent and into the Middle East and Africa, cannabis was used to make medicines and parchment but also clothing, ropes, tents, seed for food, and fodder for livestock.
Charred hemp seeds found in Northern Isles archeological digs show that the first cannabis use in the UK was by early settlers who crossed from Europe before the seas rose and the UK became islands. Both Henry VIII and Elizabeth I introduced laws commanding landowners to set aside part of their land to the growing of cannabis hemp. Henry VIII also put into law the "Herbalist Charter'" which allowed any common man to share and use medicinal herbs of any kind.
Cannabis hemp seeds were thought by the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower to be essential in building a new nation and brought bags of cannabis seed on their voyage. Many of the early states followed the English example and brought in laws instructing that landowners must grow cannabis hemp. People could pay their taxes with cannabis hemp and in Virginia between 1763 and 1767 you could be jailed for not growing it.
Humans greatly benefited from the use of cannabis up to the beginning of the 20th century. This ended when the Egyptian delegate at the 1925 League of Nations delivered a tirade against cannabis and pleaded for it to be added to the list of banned drugs in the Hague Convention. Legislation was passed and trading of cannabis resin internationally became illegal worldwide. The 1961 United Nations Single Convention on Narcotics saw the plant join the resin, leaving us with the situation we have today.
In some countries medical use is allowed or a blind eye is turned, but because of one man and one speech, cannabis can no longer help humans to grow.
Cannabis was used throughout the world for medicinal purposes before the beginning of recorded history. Without the cannabis hemp plant, there may not have been a recorded history. Many ancient Chinese and Arabic medical texts were written on hemp paper and spoke of the use of cannabis in many forms being used to treat a variety of ailments including malaria, insomnia, constipation, and rheumatism.
From its earliest beginnings in what would now be Northern China through the Asian continent and into the Middle East and Africa, cannabis was used to make medicines and parchment but also clothing, ropes, tents, seed for food, and fodder for livestock.
Charred hemp seeds found in Northern Isles archeological digs show that the first cannabis use in the UK was by early settlers who crossed from Europe before the seas rose and the UK became islands. Both Henry VIII and Elizabeth I introduced laws commanding landowners to set aside part of their land to the growing of cannabis hemp. Henry VIII also put into law the "Herbalist Charter'" which allowed any common man to share and use medicinal herbs of any kind.
Cannabis hemp seeds were thought by the Pilgrim Fathers on the Mayflower to be essential in building a new nation and brought bags of cannabis seed on their voyage. Many of the early states followed the English example and brought in laws instructing that landowners must grow cannabis hemp. People could pay their taxes with cannabis hemp and in Virginia between 1763 and 1767 you could be jailed for not growing it.
Humans greatly benefited from the use of cannabis up to the beginning of the 20th century. This ended when the Egyptian delegate at the 1925 League of Nations delivered a tirade against cannabis and pleaded for it to be added to the list of banned drugs in the Hague Convention. Legislation was passed and trading of cannabis resin internationally became illegal worldwide. The 1961 United Nations Single Convention on Narcotics saw the plant join the resin, leaving us with the situation we have today.
In some countries medical use is allowed or a blind eye is turned, but because of one man and one speech, cannabis can no longer help humans to grow.
Posted by Weed Warrior at 12/19/2009 2:49 PM 
Categories: Marijuana History
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Categories: Marijuana History
Tags: medical marijuana cannabis hemp marijuana cannabis pot weed
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