Yeshi Tshering
Rajpura punjab.
WHAT IS MARIJUANA
It is also called weed, pot, but, ganja, mary Jane and a vast number of other slang terms. It is a greenish mixture of the dried flower of cannabis sativa. Marijuana can be smoked as a cigarette, nut many also smoked as a dry pipe or a water pipe known as a “bong’’ it can be or brewed as tea.
MARIJUANA AS A HERB
It is an herb because, well it has leaves. Really the flower buds Marijuana are the useful part, but the leaves do have some values as well. It is known by the scientific name cannabis sativa Cannabis has been used since ancient times for both herbal medication and intoxication according to a 1999 study commissioned by the Institute of Medicine, a Washington, D.C. There is scientific evidence that marijuana helps with pain relief and nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy.
Marijuana was added to the US Pharmacopeia in 1850 where it is listed as treatment for neuralgia, tetanus, leprosy, dysentery, uterine bleeding, and many other ailments. Cannabis seed and oil were probably used as food in China since at least 6000 BC.There are references to marijuana in the Chinese pharmacopeia that goes back to 1500 BC (National Institute of Drug Abuse Marijuana Research). The Chinese were said to use cannabis to treat diarrhea, dysentery, and to stimulate appetite.
The use of marijuana in India probably goes back to the Vedic times (c.1800 BC onwards), as mentioned in the Atharvaveda. Marijuana is roughly 114 times less deadly than alcohol, according to recent findings published in the journal Scientific Report. Of the seven drugs included in the study, alcohol was the deadliest at an individual level, followed by heroin, cocaine, tobacco, ecstasy, methamphetamines. Previous studies consistently ranked marijuana as the safest recreational drug.
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