India, marijuana

Widely used in India and the Middle East, marijuana was viewed as an innocuous social drug by many British and other foreign observers. In 1894, the Indian Hemp Commission issued a voluminous report that concluded ... 

Many researchers have studied the relationship between marijuana and mental illness. Early twentieth century proponents of marijuana prohibition in the United States often cited studies showing a link between marijuana and insanity and referred to reports of large numbers of institutionalized mental patients in India and Egypt who had used marijuana. However, since the 1970s, researchers have effectively refuted the claims of a direct link between marijuana use and mental illness. 

In addition to smoking marijuana, some of the more daring users tried hashish. This stronger drug, which is usually chewed or smoked, is made by drying the resin produced in the tops of female marijuana plants before the seeds form. Hashish is not as popular in the United States as marijuana, but it was part of the drug scene long ago and continues to be so, especially in India..—... 

In India and other areas with long marijuana experience, Cannabis is often made into something like a milkshake (bhang) or a kind of candy (most commonly known as majoun). These methods give effects, but experience has shown that if marijuana is to be ingested, its potency can be increased considerably by cooking it first in oil at low temperatures for about fifteen minutes. 

Since Portugal was the first to establish outposts in India, it is not surprising that the earliest books to be written about life in the East Indies were authored by Portuguese writers. The first European book to deal with the effects and uses of marijuana was written by a Portuguese physician whose writings were posthumously burned in public because a secret he had carefully guarded all his life was finally revealed after his death. 

The last major book of the sixteenth century to mention marijuana was written by a Dutchman, John Huyghen van Linschoten. Van Linschoten had been especially intrigued by Da Orta s descriptions of India and its exotic drags. He realized the potential for success and wealth in catering to Europe s new appetitie for vicarious wanderlust by supplying more of the same. 

Pruning the tops of marijuana plants is the custom in Brazil. But in the Bengal area of India, the lower branches are removed when the plant is about three months old. The Nepalese supposedly trim the tips, remove the larger leaves and shake the plant from time to time the resulting mass of twisted leaves and flowers is called latta, probably very similar to the colas of mature sinsemilla. 

THC is extremely low considering the price. The highest amount given in table 6 (11.5%) is not even twice the amount present in good quality marijuana from Africa, India, Mexico or Colombia, and it is accompanied by so much CBD that the high will be significantly diminished. In fact, there is almost always more CBD... 

According to the DBA, drug-trafficking organizations based in Mexico supply most of the foreign marijuana available in the United States. However, countries in South America (primarily Colombia) and Asia (including Cambodia, Thailand, India, and Pakistan) also cultivate and ship marijuana to the United States. 

Cocaine, opium, and marijuana have been used by humans for thousands of years. For example, the chewing ofcoca leaves by South American Indians Uving in the Andean mountain region dates back to 2500 BC. Marijuana use can be dated back to at least 2737 BC in China and was used as part of reUgious ceremonies in India thousands of years ago. The ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, and Greeks all have evidence of opium use. 

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