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Pot MarijuanaIn this report I will show you my views on Marijuana, if it should belegal, for medical and/or recreational purposes.Marijuana has many names: Dope, Marihuana, Ganja, Pot Mary Jane,Cannabis Sativa (Scientific) to name a few.Marijuana originated in the middle east (Taiwan, Korea). China playsan important part in Marijuana's history. Hoatho, the first chinesephysician to use Cannabis for medical purposes as a painkiller andanesthetic for surgery. In the Ninth Century B.C., it was used as anincense by the Assyrians Herbal, a Chinese book of medicine from the secondCentury B.C., was first to describe it in print. It was used as ananesthetic 5,000 years ago in ancient china. Many (*) ancient culturessuch as the persians, Greeks, East Indians, Romans, and the Assyrians formany things. These were what they used it for: the control of musclespasms, reduction of pain, and for indegestion.English: Close up shot of some high quality mariju...Imagine that if they stillpracticed this, in stead of taking an Alka Seltzer after you had mom's Chilior Tacos, you might be sitting in the living room on the LAY-Z Boy, smokinga joint or however they would take it. The folk medicine of Africa and Asiahave used it as an herbal preparation. A 'mythical' and 'legendary'pharmacist and emperor Shen Nung thought using it as a seditive was allright. In 2,700 B.C. that same 'mythical' emperor said it helped femaleweakness, gout, rheumatism, malaria, beri-beri (?), contipation, andabsentmindedness.In 1979 (A.D.) Carlton E. Turner visited China and found marijuana wasnot in use in formal medical places. J. D. P. Graham of the Welsh NationalSchool of Medicine wrote, 'One not need take to seriously the anecdotal useof it's use for many purposes in China or by the Hindus in...