Talk:History of cannabis

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Proposed outline

• Possible origins in Central Asia
• Ancient Chinese and Korean uses as textile
• Use in Ancient India, possibility of origin of soma, etc.
• Use by the Scythians as noted by Herodotus
• Spread with the Islamic conquests
• Arrival and spread in Africa
• Columbian Exchange and cultivation in North/South America
• Europeans encounter cannabis in Africa and Asia during Colonial period (Napoleon in Egypt, British in India and South Africa)
• Cannabis starts to gain niche popularity in Europe and US (William Brooke O'Shaughnessy, Jacques-Joseph Moreau
• 1800s: countries begin to limit use of psychoactive cannabis: Mauritius, Singapore, Ottoman Empire, South Africa, East Africa, Colombia, Brazil
• Anglo countries begin to be alarmed about cannabis
• Opium Convention brings more countries into alignment re limiting cannabis
• US 1937 Marihuana Act
• WWII and hemp rope
• 1960s and increasing mainstreaming of cannabis use in West
• 1970s and further pushback through international orgs, US pressure on India/Afghanistan/Bangladesh etc to restrict cannabis
• Early decrim in the Netherlands
• 1990s and early interest in medical cannabis
• 2000s and wave of decrim and medical in Europe and US
• 2010s and wave of partial legalization in US, legalization in Uruguay (and soon Canada), wide number of countries reconsidering cannabis policy

Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 07:25, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

I like where the draft is going. My understanding is that Israel is in a unique position wrt medical marijuana, not being bound by some of the restrictions on North American and European medicine, and this could be included. Sources include Washington Post and Marijuana Politics: Uncovering the Troublesome History and Social Costs of Criminalization. The latter book probably is a good source for other perspectives we might have missed as well. Many more sources to be found at Cannabis in Israel ☆ Bri (talk) 19:16, 31 December 2017 (UTC)

@Bri: I'm open to anything we can source, but while Israel has some unusual factors, I don't see it as being as groundbreaking as the other cases we mention in the article, like Canada being the first to have medical, Portugal decriminalizing all drugs, and Uruguay the first to legalize fully. But I'm open to ideas. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 12:11, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

No evidence that this is cannabis

"Throughout the country they get inebriated [also translated as 'become drunk' and 'produce stupefaction'] by using a certain smoke, and will give everything they have in order to get it."

This really sounds more like opium or something else. Without clearer evidence that this was cannabis, this entry should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Psyden (talk • contribs) 14:30, 29 March 2024 (UTC)