Cannabis
The exact origins of something as old as Cannabis is almost an impossible task. History shows that it was one of the first crops to be cultivated by Man. Archeological evidence indicates that the earliest use of Cannabis leads back some 10,000 years. Due to its quite amazing properties, Cannabis became entwined into the cultures of the Middle East, Asia Minor, India, China, Japan, Europe and Africa. Its medical features were used worldwide for at least 5000 years. It was even a part of the British Medical Formulary until 1971 when was outlawed by the Misuse Of Drugs Act. The bloom of cannabis medicine was around the end of the nineteenth century, when it was used for a number of symptoms in a number of ways, however it was later displaced by the invention of new synthetic drugs. The later research on some of these new drugs has proven that they are ineffective for some people, and have dangerous side-effects in their use. Regardless of that, the medical use of Cannabis was......
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