A Brief History of Marijuana
Here is the story of cannabis, aka marijuana. Today it is illegal in most places, but that likely is to soon change, especially after people watch this video.
Music by Electric Needle Room and Daniel Lewis Diedrich.
All images found in the public domain or fall under fair use guidelines.
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Podcast episode:
https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/iammrbeat/episodes/2016-12-28T09_11_05-08_00
Once upon a time there was a plant called cannabis. Since as far back as 10,000 years ago, it was one of the first crops grown when farming began. Hemp, a variety of the cannabis plant, had consistently been used in places like ancient China to create stuff like clothing and rope. Hemp was and still is non psychoactive, which means it doesn’t affect the mind or mental processes because its THC levels are so low. In other words, smoking it will not get you high.
The first recorded use of the cannabis that does get you high was in approximately 2,737 BCE. Emperor Shen Neng of China used the plant as medicine for things like gout, malaria, and poor memory. You heard that right.
Throughout the next 3,000 years, cannabis use for medicinal purposes slowly spread throughout Asia and into Europe. The Chinese mixed it into food. In ancient India, they mixed into a drink called bhang. (bang)
In the second century CE, the Greek doctor Galen prescribed cannabis as medicine. Prior to that in Greece, cannabis seeds had been consumed recreationally.
Soon after this, the Chinese doctor Hua Tuo (Hwa Toe) used cannabis to relieve pain for patients undergoing surgery. He would ground it and mix it with wine.
During the Middle Ages, cannabis was pretty popular in the Middle East. Muslims there weren’t supposed to drink wine, but ain’t nobody said they couldn’t smoke grass! That’s what they actually called it. Well, they called it hashish. (Hasheesh) However, the Arabic doctor Ibn Wahshiyah (eebeen washeeuh) did warn about its potential dangers.
Christopher Columbus brought rope made out of hemp on his first voyage to the New World in 1492. Both the French and the British had their colonists grow cannabis in the New World. During the 1600s, cannabis grew even more popular, and became a major thing to trade between South and Central Asia.
In the 1700s, doctors everywhere recommended cannabis as medicine. The Irish doctor William O’Shaughnessy, in particular, helped popularize its medical use for pain treatment. However, in 1798, Napoleon learned that many of his soldiers had started smoking cannabis while in Egypt and had brought the habit back with them to France. In response, he outlawed the plant.
Still, cannabis remained popular. In the 1800s, cannabis plantations were scattered around the United States. Doctors regularly prescribed it and it was easy to buy in general stores. By now, people traded for cannabis all around the world and its use dramatically increased.
By the end of the 1800s, though, attitudes toward cannabis had started to change. A growing number of people were freaking out about drugs, as alcoholism and opium addiction were dramatically on the rise.
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Smoke weed, kids, it’s fun!
Lets smok sum hashish
I got interviewed by Robert from Reading Through History about this video. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHPnjtxwb7c
im watching this 5 years it was leglized in canada it’s funny
Mr. Beat finally comes out as a POTHEAD !
Just about everything in this country is rooted in racism, and heavily coated in white supremacy . It’s appalling
ah yes, the dare program. totally didn’t get tons of kids to use more drugs.
I bet that is something people would do. “Hey this shit is good can we like? Make it ourselves” before even thinking of food like that
Mr beast ?!?!???!😮
The medical benefits as you have also stated go back thousands of years. To me sounds very much like the probation against alcohol do your research that was to kill the ethanol industry that was thriving at that time it has nothing to do with with its use but big company’s can not make any money from it. So follow the money who has the most to gain from such things including resent events.
In other words the evil stuff alcohol n opiates pushed out the good helpful. Now after many prayers ppl can legally get it in some places. Alcohol n opiates kill marijuana never killed nobody
U.S. Government be like, "NO DRUGS, DRUGS BAD!" also U.S. Government, "You flood the streets with crack, on the low."
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Y’all should remember that sugar is more fatal in smaller amounts than weed
Once upon a time in 1903 a propaganda film called Refer Madness fooled the world into a 120 year long drug war that solved no problems. The End. Okay time to smoke a joint.
My mum should see this
When I worked in a state ran psyche hospital back in 1987, it’s long closed down now but I met a ww2 vet who was a patient there. He got caught smoking a joint on the deck of the ship he was serving in the navy in 1940. He got a life sentence for it !
Great informative video:)
A drug is a drug. Alcohol and tobacco are drugs too. All drugs should be banned: alcohol, marijuana etc.
BCE = Before Christ’s Era. You should just say BC though
I’ve smoked that shit for 30 years ,all it does is releve the stress in life ,on the flip side it is addictive it used enough, and tends to make someone a certain way ,all users know this ,the problem is with synthetic cannabis which is in spray form ,hard to detect without a lab or test kit ,and is as addictive as crack and heroin ,this is the way its going ,so in the future ,I will only smoke from a traceable supply
That’s the only time I’ll laugh at someone saying "he killed his entire family with an axe!" Boh my goodness. Hopefully it’s not true and just propaganda, if so, it was the bud that did it. It was his outlying mental state.
It’s almost as if it was totally legal until the modern pharmaceutical system realized how much money they would lose. Now there is so much negative stigma held by those who have never tried it, or only tried it as a teenage, that people are scared of the consequences of every pothead from here to Timbuktu running around chewing their own dicks off or something.
😂 I still find it hilarious that any human thinks that they have the right to tell another human what they can or can’t consume, especially when it’s literally a plant given to us by God.
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We own a medical/recreational dispensary. I can see many benefits in pain management (people prefer it to highly-addictive prescription drugs), and managing addiction, PTSD, anxiety, sleep issues, Parkinson’s or just for having fun.
William Randolph Hearst payed the govt to outlaw it. Look it up.
6 years later it’s still headed positively just very slowly
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Shows how people are so easily misinformed. Educate yourself. I use to smoke it but stopped manh years ago. But it isnt bad like people have made it to be. Alcohol is worse
AI will free man the pain of freewill😅
Mr. Beat, do you know the German song: "Gebt das Hanf frei."? XD😅
who els is faded watchin this
23 states now!
Mr Beat, how much do you smoke a week.
Negroes, Hispanics and Filipinos… yeah. We Filipinos know that our ancestors used it for medical purposes. I just don’t know why our country banned it too. I hope it gets legalized again.
“The first man to ever smoke Marijuana never smoked it he inhaled it. He was a Chinese man, a very great man”-Joey Diaz JRE 1140
So joey was right lol
@2:09 what is the name of thise type of structure/fortification? or what is the name of rhe people who made these
I am interested to read about it. cheers
U lost all credibility when u said they called weed "hashish" lmao. Hasish is not the same as weed flower. I’d normally say you’re high but uve clearly never smoked weed in ur life lol
Mr. Beat, smokin’ dem tweeds? Say it ain’t so
shen nung was not a real emperor. he was a mythological figure.
AI will free man the pain of freewill😅
Cannabis can grow everywhere, hemp is even better at it, however back in the day hemp contained more THC than it does now, at a level over 1.5-2% meaning it got you lightly stoned
who else is smoking a bowl watching this?
mrbreast
Only thing im violent against when i smoke is food and my girls cheeks 😂
So in conclusion for 50 years they tried to take away something that humans have been using for thousands of years but failed and now they’re legalizing it because they’ve realized that they’re missing out on a lot of money.
Harry anslinger is one of the shittiest human beings to ever grace human kind of all time . Seriously. Change my mind.
Ah, in my country it’s fine for me to buy 3 bottles of whisky and sit down and drink myself to death, but if I take a plant seed and harvest and consume it I can go to prison, whhaaaa, the drug laws in this world are totally bizzare, how can someone stop me from growing one of God’s plants and enjoying it’s benefits, that is not a free world 😱