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Cooking with Hemp & Cannabis - Coming Soon
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Medical Use of Cannabis
This film explains the medical use and working of the Cannabis Sativa plant, also known as marijuana or hemp. Scientists, patients, a family doctor, a pharmacist, an anesthetist and a medicinal Cannabis producer, give their views on this versatile plant and its medicinal effects.
40 min 1 sec - Jan 8, 2007. Click image to view. Source: www.maripharm.nl
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This Web site is an excellent resource on the medical use of marijuana, presenting, in an unbiased, primarily pro/con format, responses to the related and core question; "Should marijuana be a medical option now?" Here you can find information on the medical value and use of marijuana, the medical risks of use, diseases and conditions in which marijuana is used, U.S. government policies and medical marijuana, legal issues, and non-smoked marijuana. There's also a fascinating section that provides a three-part overview of the history of marijuana as medicine, from 2737 B.C. to the present.
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Benjamin Franklin
started one of
America's first paper
mills with cannabis,
allowing a colonial press
free from English control.
Hemp is Legal
in many countries
throughout Europe
and Asia, including the
United Kingdom, the
Netherlands, and China.
Hemp is of
first necessity to
the wealth & protection
of the country.
Thomas Jefferson
Indian Hemp
was properly christened
by Linnaeus, in 1753,
as Cannabis sativa,
which remains the
botanical name for the
plant species.
The U.S. Government
distributed 400,000 pounds of cannabis seeds to American farmers in 1942 to aid the war effort.


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