3.04 U.S. Government

By briannaro
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    Chinese Medical Text Describes Medical Uses for Marijuana

    Medical text describes the use of marijuana to treat vomiting, parasitic infections, and hemorrhage.

  • Popular English Mental Health Book Recommends Cannabis to Treat Depression

    English Clergyman and Oxford scholar Robert Burton suggests cannabis as a treatment for depression in his book The Anatomy of Melancholy.

  • Marijuana becomes a popular medicine in the West.

    Studies in the 1840s by French doctor Jacques-Joseph Moreau found that marijuana suppressed headaches, increased appetites, and aided people to sleep.

  • Marijuana Added to US Pharmacopeia

    The US Pharmacopoeia listed marijuana as treatment for numerous afflictions, including: neuralgia, tetanus, typhus, cholera, rabies, dysentery, alcoholism, opiate addiction, anthrax, leprosy, incontinence, gout, convulsive disorders, tonsillitis, insanity, excessive menstrual bleeding, and uterine bleeding, among others. Patented marijuana tinctures were sold.

  • Massachusetts Becomes the First State to Outlaw Cannabis

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    10 States Pass Marijuana Prohibition Laws

    Including Utah (1915), Wyoming (1915), Texas (1919), Iowa (1923), Nevada (1923), Oregon (1923), Washington (1923), Arkansas (1923), and Nebraska (1927). The state of New York outlaws cannabis in 1927.

  • First Marijuana Seller Convicted under US Federal Law Is Arrested

    The FBI and Denver, Colorado police raided the Lexington Hotel and arrested Samuel R. Caldwell. Caldwell was sentenced to four years of hard labor in Leavenworth Penitentiary, plus a $1,000 fine.

  • New Mexico Passes First State Law Recognizing Medical Value of Marijuana