This history of Cannabis Seeds is long and bewildering and only comparatively lately has the possession of cannabis seeds been a criminal offense. Here's a look back at some of the peculiarities of its history:It's been a drugs for 4,000 years.
Though the discussion about medical marijuana is a comparatively new one in the West, in India, China and the Middle East, cannabis seeds' medicinal properties have been celebrated for around 4,000 years. In China, cannabis seeds were used to treat all demeanour of conditions from malaria to bowel obstruction. It took a long time for cannabis seeds to be used as medication in the west - round the middle of the 19th century. Queen Victoria was prescribed it to relieve period discomfort, and it could be freely purchased in shops through the U. S. .
Towards the end of the century, cannabis seeds' use in western medicine faded with the invention of the syringe. Injected drugs took effect far faster, and cannabis seeds (which could not be dissolved in water and thus injected) slid out of favour. Over the last few decades of course, the debate over medicinal marijuana has reopened.
Founding pops Grew Hemp and Cannabis Seeds
Although it is misleading as to whether any of the founding pops basically exploited the drug recreationally, it is clear that George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding pas grew hemp, as documented in their own diaries. Jefferson imported cannabis seeds from China, while Washington notes that he was attempting to get his gardeners to split the male and female cannabis seeds - "began to split the Male from the Female Hemp at Do - rather too late." Some have recommended that perhaps Washington's requirement on separation of the crop implies he used cannabis seeds medicinally to treat his respected tooth aches. Whether you think this, you can't deny the import of hemp to the history of the United States: the stipulation of autonomy is written on hemp paper!
Hemp For Victory
More recently, and an area of US history the govt is terribly keen to brush over is the 1940's'Hemp for Victory' campaign. During the 2nd World War, imports of hemp were proscribed, implying sea cordage, parachutes and other military necessities were in short supply. The govt. sufficed by administering free cannabis seeds and permitting men to prorogue the draft if they agreed to stay at home and support the war effort by growing hemp. American farmers had cropped 375,000 acres of hemp in 1943.
Cannabis Seeds - A Truth Serum?
Yes, for a period in the 1940s, the United States' Office of Strategic Services (OSS) experimented with cannabis seeds as a truth serum. They noted in their trials the drug made a subject (in this example a member of the mafia) "loquacious and free in his impartation of information."
An example of its use was in the interviewing of Augusto Del Gracio, one of lucky Luciano's enforcers. After being given a cigarette peaked with THC concentrate, he talked overtly about the gangster's heroin operations. So successful was the experiment that for the following meeting they upped the THC dosage in the tobacco - but this proved to be too much, and the mobster simply passed out for two hours.
Many US executive bankrolled Studies have Extolled the Virtues of Cannabis Seeds
Many executive funded studies have been brushed under the carpet after they did not turn the negative results intended. Research has shown all sorts of things, from cannabis seeds' failure to increase death rates, its absence of long-term implications "Does Cannabis Seeds' Use Have Residual Adverse Effects on Self-Reported Health Measures, Socio-Demographics or Quality of Life?," that it may prevent cancer (multiple studies) and that it does have medicinal value. The second of these has been principally ignored by the government, and caused the co-writer John A. Benson to inform the NY Times that the central authority "would rather it never happened."
