(Marijuana. a Lost History. Documentary by Chris Rice)

A good cannabis high is like opening the shades and letting light stream into a darkened room.

 Our relationship with cannabis goes back to the very dawn of the human species. Pot has been an elixir.  Below Dr, Mercola summarizes Chris Rice’s documentary, Cannabis: A Lost History which reveals that marijuana was the source of religious inspiration. I know this is abhorrent to some readers, but if a herb actually helped us be more like Jesus intended, what is the harm?

Medical cannabis is now legal in 30 U.S. states,6,7 the majority of which allow limited use of medical marijuana under certain medical circumstances, although some limit medical cannabis to oils or pills only. Eight states have legalized it for recreational use.

Cannabis: A Lost History  (Footnotes here)

by Dr. Mercola

(henrymakow.com)

Cannabis, better known as marijuana, has been used for its medicinal properties for thousands of years. It’s been heralded as a “cure-all,” revered for its healing properties, particularly for pain but also as a potential anticancer treatment. Marijuana was a popular botanical medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, common in U.S. pharmacies of the time.

It wasn’t until 1970 that the herb was declared a Schedule 1 controlled substance in the U.S., a classification reserved for drugs with “high potential for abuse” and “no accepted medical use.” Three years later, the Drug Enforcement Agency was formed to enforce the newly created drug schedules, and the fight against marijuana use began. In light of its history as a global panacea for all sorts of ills, its classification as a controlled substance is particularly unjustified.

As noted in the documentary “Cannabis: A Lost History,” written, directed and narrated by Chris Rice, marijuana has been “an integral part of human civilization,” featuring in ancient Japanese cave paintings, as well as Chinese and Siberian burial rites dating back to 3000 B.C. Based on the evidence — especially the discovery that the human body is equipped with a cannabinoid system — it appears our relationship with cannabis goes back to the very dawn of the human species.

Historical remnants from all around the world also reveal the importance of cannabis in medicine and spirituality. For example, Taoist monks in ancient China burned cannabis as incense, and consumed it with ginseng — a combination thought to open your psychic centers, allowing you to see the future. Cannabis was also revered as sacred in Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and Buddhism.

CANNABINOIDS AND THE CANNABINOID RECEPTOR SYSTEM 

The marijuana plant contains more than 60 different cannabinoids; chemical compounds the human body is uniquely equipped to respond to. The two primary ones are cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the latter of which is the psychoactive component. Cannabinoids interact with your body by way of naturally occurring cannabinoid receptors embedded in cell membranes throughout your body.

There are cannabinoid receptors in your brain, lungs, liver, kidneys, immune system and more; the therapeutic (and psychoactive) properties of marijuana occur when a cannabinoid activates a cannabinoid receptor. Your body also has naturally occurring endocannabinoids similar to THC that stimulate your cannabinoid receptors and produce a variety of important physiologic processes.

So, your body is actually hard-wired to respond to cannabinoids through this unique cannabinoid receptor system. We still don’t know exactly how far its impact on your health reaches, but to date, it’s known that cannabinoid receptors play an important role in many body processes, including metabolic regulation, pain, anxiety, bone growth and immune function.1

THE EARLIEST HISTORY OF CANNABIS

According to the featured video, the earliest written references to cannabis are found in the Chinese Materia Medica, said to be written by Shen Nung around 2800 B.C. The oldest known copy of this book dates back to 50 B.C. Nung is one of three “celestial emperors” revered in the Chinese culture. “Half emperor, half deity, he is said to have ruled over China long before written history,” Rice says.

Nung is credited with inventing agriculture — including the hoe, the plow, and irrigation — as well as acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Often depicted draped in leaves and chewing on various plants, Nung was the first pharmacologist, experimenting with and recording the health effects of plants. Nung documented around 100 different conditions that responded well to cannabis, including gout, rheumatism, malaria, and absentmindedness.

Before Nung declared its medicinal attributes, the cannabis plant, called “ma” in Chinese, had been used for centuries in the production of textiles, paper, rope, and pottery. Around 200 A.D., a Chinese physician named Hua Tuo performed the first surgery using an anesthetic — a formula called Ma Fei San, which translates to “cannabis boiling powder.”

For thousands of years, cannabis remained one of the 50 essential plants used in TCM. It was only removed from widespread use in recent times due to its controversial legal status. The film also reviews the history of cannabis in Indian culture. In the Vedas, the sacred text of India, cannabis (bhang) is listed as one of five sacred plants, and the Hindu god Shiva is referred to as “Lord of the bhang,” meaning the Lord of cannabis.

According to the Mahanirvana, “bhang is consumed in order to liberate oneself,” and liberation is the path to immortality. The ancient Egyptians, Persians and Greeks also used cannabis in a variety of ways, including medicinally and for spiritual upliftment. References to cannabis are even found in Islamic, Judaic and Christian texts, although an error in translation appears to have crept into the Bible along the way. The original Hebrew term “kaneh bosm,” or cannabis, is found several times in the Old Testament.

In Exodus, chapter 30, God instructs Moses on how to make a holy anointing oil: “Take for yourself choice spices: 500 shekels of pure myrrh, half as much fragrant cinnamon, 250 shekels of kaneh bosm and 500 shekels of cassia and mix these with olive oil.” In more modern Bibles, kaneh bosm has been translated as sweet calamus. The problem is this plant does not have the properties that the Bible ascribes to kaneh bosm.

According to the film, a 12th-century painting found in a Sicilian basilica also “appears to show Jesus near a pot leaf.” The painting is titled “Jesus healing the blind.” Interestingly enough, “modern scientific studies have since proven that cannabis delays retinal degeneration,” Rice says.

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CONTINUED- Details of Medicinal Benefits  Cannabis is a panacea.

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First Comment by David C

Thanks for posting the article about the lost history of cannabis!  While the first recorded medicinal use of medicinal cannabis was by Shen-Nung in 2700 B.C., its use likely goes back to the beginning of human civilization, and the human body has evolved equipped with a cannabinoid system.

 Hemp cord used in pottery was found at an ancient village site from over 10,000 years ago, making it one of the first agricultural crops. Carl Sagan, an avid cannabis user, proposed the possibility that cannabis may have been the world’s first agricultural crop, leading to the development of human civilization.

Cannabis has been used widely all over the world throughout human history, although that fact has been suppressed.  Cannabis is the most valuable plant on Earth, providing food, fuel, medicine, fiber, and thousands of uses – literally everything we need to live healthy,  happy lives.  I’m grateful cannabis has finally been legalized or decriminalized in many places, but consider the regulated system to be criminal, extorting huge amounts of money from farmers, dispensaries, and consumers. It should be unregulated, like other medicinal herbs – the government does not have a right to extort money from growers and users, and already wastes most of the money it takes from us.  Most Cannabis from dispensaries I’ve tried have usually been inferior to what I grow, and as with food – we can grow better quality than what is available commercially.

They allow over 100 pesticides to be used on cannabis in this state, which is not tested for, putting people with compromised immune systems at risk.  We should abolish money, and use cannabis as currency to barter because it’s something that has real value – hemp was used as money in colonial America, and farmers had to grow cannabis by law at that time, because it was such a valuable crop.  In states where cannabis is available legally now, opioid addiction, alcoholism, the use of allopathic drugs (including psychiatric) has decreased, plus the use of cannabis by teenagers has decreased too.

Alcohol is the primary “gateway” drug – it makes people lazy and negative, while cannabis makes people positive and industrious.  I’ve been a legal medical grower since 2000, the year after the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act program began, and plan to grow it for the rest of my life.

People can grow four plants legally in this state, although only 8 ounces is allowed, which is illogical, so I’m keeping my medical permit.  i’m planning on moving out of the city, because Portland has become “Marxlandia” – a cesspit of groupthink.  I incorporate cannabis into my diet, and my pets food too.  I cured my late dog’s mammary gland lymphoma with a homemade coconut-cannabis extract, which allowed us to enjoy many additional years together.

You can treat almost every ailment with medicinal cannabis, including skin irritations like eczema, psoriasis, and other dermatological disorders.  I’m not surprised you are a cannabis user Henry, because of your wisdom and spiritual nature. Many wise people in the past were cannabis users, and some also users of stronger entheogenic substances, such as; cactus containing mescaline, mushrooms containing psilocybin, DMT, Ibogain, etc.  Ibogaine comes from the root bark of the West African Iboga plant, and is used to cure addiction in other countries, but its use is illegal here.

 It’s telling that the USA is the only country to allow hydrocodone use (99% used only in the USA), where it gets prescribed for every minor pain, turning many people into addicts, but ibogaine, which treats and cures addiction, is illegal, banned and suppressed.  We have a huge problem with alcoholism, opioid addiction, and prescription drug dependence, but hopefully, medicinal cannabis will reverse that trend.  Our society is self-destructing from within because of cultural Marxism, but hopefully, cannabis will help save us, making people wiser and healthier.

 It isn’t surprising that the international banksters have tried to ban cannabis for hundreds of years, because it can provide freedom and healing to an enslaved humanity.  Cannabis can save the world if we let it.   Your website is one of the few I read every day, and while I don’t agree with everything, I usually find the articles enlightening.  Thanks for posting this!