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From around 2,300 BC to 1000 BC, Cannabis was introduced, due to its quite amazing properties… and it
became entwined into the cultures … by nomadic tribes who it is believed travelled from central Persia
(Iran and Iraq) north and west through the Middle East, Africa and Europe …
The first archeological remains of Cannabis in England date back to 400 AD where evidence suggests that
it was cultivated at Old Buckenham Mere. Its cultivation spread at a great rate in the British Isles during
the first century. Interestingly enough, under Queen Elizabeth I, it was law that if you owned more than a
certain amount of land, some of it had to be set aside to grow Cannabis. Under Queen Elizabeth II, you
can spend up to fourteen years in prison and face an unlimited fine for growing Cannabis.
www.cannabis.net/... Despite precursors such as Rabelais, sustained interest in cannabis among the
literati may be said to have begun with Le Club des Haschischins. This informal club met in the privately
owned baroque palace … in the 1840s …17 quai d'Anjou on the Isle St Louis in Paris. Whilst many of its
members were prominent in the artistic community … its driving force and supplier of the hashish in the
form of a green paste (an echo of the witches' drugs which were greenish ointments) was a psychiatrist
named Jean-Jacques Moreau de Tours (1804-84). Moreau, who also experimented with the possible
medical applications of Datura stramonium, is often described as the first psychiatrist interested in the
use of psychoactive substances as a means of treating mental illness. …
http://www.siu.edu/~ebl/ … By Ernest G. Walker, Jr …There are numerous uses for Cannabis in various
cultures. A Mexican Indian tribe uses a variety of marihuana, which they call la santa rosa, in their
religious ceremonies (Williams-Garcia, 1975). They chew the leaves and they claim that it makes them
speak to the gods freely. Cultural groups in a Columbian Municipio, use C. sativa in numerous ways,
including for medical purposes. For example, they soak Cannabis in rum and apply it to the skin for pain
of the joints and muscles. And, sometimes Cannabis is smoked to reduce fatigue and augment sexual
intercourse, or to relax and socialize with friends (Partridge, 1975).
www.parl.gc.ca/37/1/parlbus/commbus ...South America – Brazil... In 1549, the French and the British
imported Angolan slaves from the southwest coast of Africa to work as labourers on the sugar plantations
of northeastern Brazil. ‗The slaves carried the seeds in cloth dolls tied to their ragtag clothing. The
planters permitted slaves to grow their maconha between the rows of cane, and to smoke and dream
during the periods of inactivity between harvests. But the planters stuck to their perfumed cigars‘. Many
planters felt that allowing their slaves to smoke marijuana, encouraged them to work hard.
Cannabis came to be regarded in Brazil as the opium of the poor ... ‗Except for ritual purposes involving
members of the priestly class‘. ...Upper class use of cannabis in Brazil was not unheard of however.
...there are indications that smoking marijuana was also observed among the Indians during the Colonial
period. The Catimbo Indians used marijuana in their own practices in order to receive spirits to cure sick
people. An influence of the African Angolan practices led the Catimbo to also use marijuana to induce
divination, revelation of secrets and mystic hallucinations.
In the 19 th century the use of marijuana was prohibited in Rio de Janeiro. However, the prohibition was
not enforced in the provinces where smokers continued to enjoy marijuana use and began growing their
own plots next to their houses for personal use. Often cannabis was used for medicinal and therapeutic
purposes: ‗usually, a preparation of tea, mixed with marijuana leaves is swallowed by the patient to
relieve rheumatism, ‗female troubles‘, colic and other common complaints such as toothaches in which
marijuana is packed around the aching tooth.‘
Near the beginning of the 20 th century, the ‗ganja complex‘ had fully developed. ...
www.cannabis.net …Grifos was a name given to cannabis in the Caribbean and derives from the Spanish
grifos, meaning 'crinkly', which some have seen as a description of the female plant's flower heads. The
word found its way into America by its use among Puerto Ricans. In 1920s Harlem it became anglicised
as 'reefers' but also continued to be known as 'griffs' or 'griff'. There are innumerable vernacular and slang
names for cannabis. Among the most common are weed, blow, gear, grass, draw, smoke, shit and herb.