HIS 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Vise, Hashish
28 Mar 2017
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Hemp is the plant; marijuana is what you smoke. In other countries, hemp is used as medicine and a cure to other illnesses. Like alcohol, he,p narrows the mind, which is why people link marijuana to stupidity. Cannabis was used for many different reasons for different cultures; medical use, Marijuana was a mix of a successful and failed drug: europeans weren"t using it but recreational use, cures, tea, etc. everyone else was. Chemical unbalance was known as the problem to mental illness. Hashish; an extract of the cannabis plant, containing concentrations of the psychoactive resins. Hashish wasn"t a big deal like opium. Hemp had been known as the grand staple of kentucky . Henry clay kept the tariffs on hemp. Had to keep tariffs high, otherwise people were going to buy it from russia. Smoking marijuana came to the u. s. from latin america. Marijuana was associated with crime, sex and violence because of prejudice towards.
