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.
Great Job with this video!
Get high, bring down your civilization, make your enemies happy. Stay straight, find personal and cultural success.
Marijunah’s bad. M’kay.
1978 New Mexico legalized Medical cannabis, Look it up! ;). Cali wasnt the first state, NM was!
Anslinger sounds like he would get along with our current administration
No I’m not saying that I’m against the legalization of marijuana but your one of your facts is misleading at 10:08 in how you stated drugs are scheduled according to their danger. That’s not true. According to the DEA’s website, "Drugs, substances, and certain chemicals used to make drugs are classified into five (5) distinct categories or schedules depending upon the drug’s acceptable medical use and the drug’s potential for abuse."
It’s true it’s very dangerous, I too smoked one weed and killed my whole family w and axe
You got one of the easiest parts of history wrong. When CO legalized, it did it by grass roots efforts. The CO State Government cared, but they allowed it because they feared a backlash.
Damn that’s crazy, California the first to illegalize it, and the second to legalize it
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Fucking bigots.
Whoa! That was like a really good video man!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ebz9OuYLL0
I fired up my pipe and watched this..
Hope I can remember it.
So, the astronauts drank
BHANG?
WOWIE, what a trip they must have had! 😵🚀
thanks brother!
Whoevers Watching this please don smoke weed it could kill you know that you know please don smoke weed
Back in the 90s I studied the cannabinoid receptor in grad school. This was hot new research back then, since endorphins had been discovered not too long before.
I love it!
Heh heh
Eschew drugs, you self-centered slovenly hippie.
I wonder how much more advanced medicinal cannabis treatments would be today if not for the prohibition fiasco of the previous century.
Well your video is outdated already. At 15:23 Canada is fully legal and so is New York. Right?
drugs are good
Marijuana
All we need to do is legalize all drugs on all government levels and regulate the drugs as well as open clinics to be visited by those that want their opioid or amphetamine fix so they can be brought bacl after overdosing.
Nice work! Greets from The Netherlands 🙂
Weed not for everyone
doctors are on cocaine
This was very informative! Thanks for making this.
I dis not learn Jamestown was a weed farm wow okay
I thought the term Hash came from the ‘Hashashins’ or something like that? Some military types like the gurkas of some sort
jeff sessions needs to see this
annoying ass cell phone and elevator noices in this video making me fuckin paranoid…jesus christ
Literally everybody agrees that we should legalize it except boomers in Washington and the private prisons
Fear is the root of all evil.
Weed plants are really pretty plants
Hippies smell like the way I presume a skunks ass smells like.
I took me a marijuana while I watched this…
Legalize Marijuanah!
15:25 Since when is weed decriminalized in Nebraska, Arkansas, Tennesse, etc? I don’t think that map is 100% accurate.
Question — how is marijuana legal in states like Washington and Colorado when the federal laws against selling it have never (yet) been overturned? Or is the Fed just like "meh, whatever."
Yet another reason to dislike Napolean. Kill joy.
we should have left the likes at 420
#420
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Well, I tried cannabis a couple of times, but it does nothing for me except scatter my thoughts and make me _more_ forgetful. It certainly does nothing for pain (but maybe it makes you forget you had it earlier on?) It’s worst effects are for younger children – you should look out the studies on that. Otherwise, apart from posing similar dangers to tobacco, I suppose it’s not too harmful.
That was very educational. Thanks for posting!
I still don’t get why there is so much antagonism against cannabis. Even though it was part of Western culture almost as long as alcohol..
But hashish is actually cannabis resin, and it’s really really bad, but it still means grass though.
and actually the Egyptian equivalence of the DEA was founded in 1929, so yes, cannabis in general and other substances were illegal in the thirties.
I got interviewed by Robert from Reading Through History about this video. Check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHPnjtxwb7c
Finally today in lebanon weed and drugs are legal