Article: A world view of marijuana. (Book Corners).

Marijuana Medicine

by Christian Ratsch

Healing Arts Press, One Park Street, Rochester, Vermont 05767 USA, www.InnerTraditions.com Softbound, ISBN 0-89281-933-2, c. 1998, 204 pp, $24.95

Until the passage of the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act, physicians in the United States had prescribed the botanical freely. Then, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 categorized marijuana (a.k.a. cannabis and/or hemp) as a Schedule 1 substance, too dangerous to be used even for medicinal purposes. Similar laws in other nations have also banned marijuana; but in Germany in 1992, a judge challenged his country's ban when he suspended a trial ...

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