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the number of conditions that respond
favorably cannabis
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an herbal medicine that has
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It would appear that cannabis and hemp
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were one of the first plants grown in agriculture
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we came out of being hunters and gatherers
at about ten thousand years ago
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and so that's at least the length of
time a cannabis has been cultivated
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the latest studies or the latest findings
are
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a tomb in china in which the contents of
the medicine bag of a medicine man
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were discovered one of the things it contained
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The tomb was carbon dated as
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which goes to the oral history of
china
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is that the emperor Shennong wrote
first chinese materia medica
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He is alleged to have written it in 2637 bc which would be
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the oldest known copy of that goes back to
some ranging about 100 bc and 100 ad
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the oldest actual written record of the
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use of cannabis as a medicine
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in the writings of the Indian as in been
India ayurvedic medicine
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a piece of history is dated eight
somewhere between 1100 bc
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Cannabis is found in every major materia
medica that has ever been written
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that includes the Ebers Medical Papyrus from Egypt
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It includes the writing of Dioscorides who
was Niro's Doctor
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his materia medica was used for over a
1000 years
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and it was included in the united states
for pharacopeia
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has been a medicine for a lot longer
than it hasn't been a medicine
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