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Three Millennia Of Medical Marijuana, Ctd

By The Daily Dish
Dec 1 2008, 7:22 AM ET

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A historian reader writes:

This is from Oxford, Bodleian MS Ashmole 1462, a 12th-century English collection of various medical and herbal texts. Note that next to the illustration of cannabis it includes both its name in Latin (Nomen istius herbe...) but then also, in English, "wilde hemp."

Decriminalizing cannabis would not be a radical departure from the norm of human history. It would be a return to it.



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