THE ANCIENT FLOWER
Cannabis Education – Cannabis was used for millennia by ancient civilizations for many things including spiritual and ceremonial medicine. Remarkably, modern medicine didn’t begin to recognize cannabis until the 1850’s when the Irish Physician William B. O’Shaughnessy wrote about it in his medical journal. Much stronger pain killers such as opium and cocaine had found their way into medicine much earlier and proved highly addictive, affected brain stem function and continue to be unsuitable for chronic use. But for various political and economic reasons, it would not be until 1963 that medical science would discover and name THC as the intoxicating molecule in the cannabis plant.