Marijuana Has Been Recognized as a Medicine for 5,000 Years
People often mistakenly think that medical use of marijuana is something new. It isn't. In fact, the recorded literature on medical use of marijuana goes back to ancient China in 2737 B.C. No doubt it was used for many years before anyone thought to write it down.
Prior to 1937, at least 27 medicines containing marijuana were legally available in the United States. Many were made by well-known pharmaceutical firms that still exist today, such as Squibb (now Bristol-Myers Squibb) and Eli Lilly. Marijuana was an entirely legal medicine in the U.S. until the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 effectively prohibited marijuana on the federal level. Dr. William C. Woodward of the American Medical Association opposed the Act, testifying that prohibition would ultimately prevent the medical uses of marijuana. He was right: Marijuana was dropped from the U.S. Pharmacopeia in 1942.
A wide variety of medical and public health organizations have recognized the medical value of marijuana. These include the American Public Health Association, American Nurses Association, American College of Physicians, American Academy of HIV Medicine, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and far too many more to list.
Marijuana was a safe, effective medicine 5,000 years ago. It was a safe, effective medicine in 1937. And modern research continues to prove that it is a safe, effective medicine today.
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I happen to agree with the facts-----being that marijuana is indeed a medical need for meds. Very much for the people that are in a lot of pain and cancer ridden. O yes a lot of the people smoke weed just for the trip's as well. Here is a idea. legalize weed and there will be no more problems with the legal part of it being not legal. Used in the proper method--I don't see any thing wrong with it--and the people that smoke it for medical purposes. Another good question would be ---where does the marijuana go when the law gets a hold of it???????? Is it destroyed--I don't think so--so what happens to it then????
After forty years I am ready to fight to keep my weed of choice. It is safer non addictive than many legal drugs millions take every day! My father and his father both died of alcohol use I watched both of them die it kills you liver kidneys and will KILL YOU!! It is legal and the alcohol industry also gives millions to PACs to keep our weed illegal. It is estimated if free Americans had a choice the legal alcohol industry would lose 40% of there market share. That is why they pay our so called leaders (house/senate) and they put us in jail destroying lives to ensure corporate profits.