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Did You Know? Historical Timeline of Marijuana and Medicine

by borden, May 22, 2012, 02:27pm, (Issue #735)
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Did you know that marijuana's documented history as a medicine dates back to 2900 BC? Read about it in Historical Timeline -- History of Marijuana as Medicine - 2900 BC to Present, on http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org, part of the ProCon.org family.

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Great video!

by Thinking Clearly, June 01, 2012, 01:15am

  This is awesome and its a great overview of the information.  I can envision Morgan Freeman for a redo on the sound track. Bravo for a work well done!

Love to see part 2, from then to now.

2900 BC- A historical Medicine.

by Jack Diodato (not verified), May 27, 2012, 05:00pm

A simple, safe non-addictive medicinal herb. NOT a drug! Thousands of years and not a single addiction. Not a single death attributed to it. Except for the Prohibition Era. Did anyone know, before a simple, safe non-addictive medicinal herb was outlawed 50,000 products were made from it?

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