TIMELINE ON MEDICAL USE OF CANNABIS

[kentuck]

http://gazette.com/now-popular-in-colorado-marijuana-oil-has-long-success-history-thats-often-been-ignored/article/1513431

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TIMELINE ON MEDICAL USE OF CANNABIS

1464: Arab historian Ibn al-Badri writes that when "the epileptic son of the caliph's chamberlain" in Baghdad was treated with cannabis "it cured him completely."

1839: British doctor Dr. William O'Shaughnessy, left, says experiments with cannabis in India "led me to the belief that in Hemp the profession has gained an anti-convulsive remedy of the greatest value."

1890: The personal physician to Queen Victoria, writes in The Lancet in 1890 on the medical uses of cannabis, saying "I have found hemp very useful" for treating epilepsy.

1900: Tincture of cannabis becomes a common medicine in American pharmacies.

1937: Medical cannabis effectively outlawed by Marihuana Tax Act.

1949: Two doctors give cannabis to five epileptic children. Three did as well as on other drugs. One had significant improvement, and one had seizures disappear entirely.

1977: Study of rats shows cannabidiol works as well as other anti-seizure drugs.

1980: Double blind study shows seven of eight human epileptics helped by cannibidiol, with seizures stopping entirely in half.

2003: British company GW Pharamaceuticals announces it plans to market a marijuana-based cannabidiol drug for epilepsy, with hopes of quick approval by the FDA. It has yet to be approved.

2012: Colorado Springs mom Paige Figi begins treating her 5-year-old daughter, Charlotte, with a marijuana oil rich in cannadidiol, sparking a small movement to make the treatment available to all epileptics.

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[tridim]

1. Sometime in the 50's my Dad was given cannabis...

to clear his lungs after an asthma attack.

He can't remember the exact year, but it was in a doctor's office... A soup bowl was filled with a pile of ground cannabis, burned and inhaled through the nose. He said it worked almost instantly.

Apparently doctors used to have open minds, and didn't worry about following stupid, racist laws.

[bemildred]

2. Yes, the Drug War is a racist witch hunt, and it pretty much always was.

My brother died in 2009 of cirrhosis, liver cancer, and sclerosing cholangitis (he was tough). I was his closest living relative, his friend, and his caregiver to the end.

At the end, he was having trouble with swallowing, he had esophageal varices and they'd been banded (to buy time). i was trying to keep him comfortable so we could talk and I could get some calories into him (he waas already in "decline&quot . I managed to make some hash butter by means I will not go into here, after some trouble, and I gave him a 1/4 tsp. of that, and bang, he could keep some juice down and a few bits to eat. I wish I'd done that a lot sooner now, but he was stubborn, he wouldn't take the pain meds either. most of the time.

[RainDog]

3. k&r n/t