Medical 1890 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

The physician to the royal household calls Indian hemp one of the most valuable medicines

J. Russell Reynolds, Physician to the Royal Household, wrote that after more than thirty years of using it he held that "Indian hemp when pure and administered carefully is one of the most valuable medicines we possess". He recommended it for insomnia, for the pain of wisdom teeth, for muscular spasms and for asthma, and warned that preparations varied in strength.^[1]

In the cultural atlas

Language · English, from botanical LatinIndian hempThe name under which the British Empire, and then the world, first brought cannabis under control. It survives in the statute books of dozens of countries that have nothing to do with India.

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References

Cannabis Britannica: Empire, Trade, and Prohibition, 1800–1928James H. Mills · Oxford University Press · 2003 · p. 141 · ISBN 0-19-924938-5

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