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Cannabis was introduced into western medicine by a toxicologist and analytic chemist who confirmed that cannabis is non-poisonous, a view shared by the Chinese--who had carved a snake coiled around a rod from hemp stalks since the time of Shen Nung, legendary" father of medicine Queen Victoria's personal physician came to view cannabis as "one of the most valuable medicines that we possess," and brought new understanding to its widespread use in the East as a tonic and relaxant herb by declaring it to be the remedy of choice for a certain class of functional neurological disorders...
...excise taxes dealing with drugs and alcohol, saying "Sin taxes are the erasure of the separation between church and state...They create an intrinsic conflict of interest." If a taxation policy were to be adopted, he said, it should follows the policy recommended by the British Indian Hemp Commission in 1894: "taxation should be at such a level that you do not encourage illicit cultivation and traffic...
...classic encounter. Restless, acquisitive men of iron, canvas and hemp confronted a communal society of bone, skins and thong. The outcome, too, was familiar. Skilled at catching birds in nets, the Inuit themselves were about to be scooped up in the cash nexus. A hitherto unknown clock was imposed on the culture, and its days were numbered...
...their times on Monday, a lot of others were omitted because they had out yet phoned in their times. Among the finishers whose times were not published were BRUCE IVES '82, 4:50: JOHN KELLY '83, 4:05: CONNIE DAHLIN '83, 4:06: DEBBIE SMITH '84, 3:57: PAUL HEMP (Harvard Law '82), 3:49: WALTER PAULSON '83, 3:38: MARK PAUL '82, 3:38: MARGET LONG '83, 4:15: CORKY MCLEOD '84, 3:50: TIM BECHTOLD '84, 4:30: MIKE SMART '84: 3:32: DANA WARREN '82, 4:30... Kelly commented that part of the reason Winthrop House...
...weeks. The French court in 1393 arranged a marriage between two court attendants as an excuse for prolonging the merriment. As described in William S. Walsh's Curiosities of Popular Customs, at the height of the ceremonies, the king and five nobles withdrew and, covering themselves with tar and hemp, re-emerged as dancing bears, tied together with a silken rope...