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Showing Original Post only (View all)Queen Victoria was a pothead! [View all]
Last edited Sun Mar 30, 2014, 09:36 PM - Edit history (1)
I just finished reading a most illuminating article about marijuana and its various issues in the February 20, 2014 issue of The New York Review of Books.
The author is reviewing the book A New Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition which was written by Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian, and is published by New Press.
The article is a calm and clear discussion about the plant.
Among many other facts, I learned that Queen Victoria used it for "...relief of menstrual discomfort."
The article is well worth reading! Here's a link: http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/feb/20/marijuana-high-and-low/?insrc=whc
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Given how stern she looks in her pictures (and I know that's how it was done then)
dflprincess
Mar 2014
#26
I used it for for all sorts of "difficulties/discomfort," menstrual, hormonal, social, societial,
japple
Mar 2014
#13
I use it for purely cosmetic reasons. It takes the warts off other peoples faces.
marble falls
Mar 2014
#18
Indigenous people have taught it's a painkiller (for giving birth/broken bones) not recreational n/t
UTUSN
Mar 2014
#24
I never heard that. But I lived a very sheltered life until I found DU! n/t
CaliforniaPeggy
Mar 2014
#27
Beatrix Potter fed a rabbit a cupful of hemp seeds: he became "wholly unmanageable"
MisterP
Mar 2014
#29