Michael Regilio
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first heard Nov 2024
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Well, there are actually nowadays there are some that will tell you that it's a shame that you're not high. As you said, cannabis today is purported to have many attributes that are good for you. This, of course, is in stark contrast to just 15 short years ago when we were told that our brains on drugs were not unlike fried eggs in a frying pan.
Aha. Yes. But the problem being that for the last 53 years, we have classified cannabis as a schedule one narcotic. That's the same as heroin, meth, coke, all the bigs of the drug world. Now, the Biden administration did finally reclassify cannabis as Schedule 3, which means it incurs much lower penalties for possession and use. For example, Tylenol with codeine is Schedule 3.
So I don't know anyone doing hard time over possession of Tylenol with codeine, so clearly this is an improvement. But it's actually a long road before cannabis is officially reclassified.
Yeah.
They gave me morphine when I broke my rib and they only gave me three pills. To this day, I still have one left because I was so freaked out about having something that addictive.
I'm going to just say no to that notion, actually, because cannabis historically always had an excellent reputation. And it's been around for like a really long time. The first recorded use of cannabis was in 2737 BCE, or as historians say, a long ass time ago.
Yeah, and legend has it that Emperor Shang Nang of China, believed to have ruled around 5,000 years ago, so you nailed it, prescribed cannabis tea. The earliest Hindu sects in India used cannabis for religious purposes and stress relief, Ancient physicians prescribed cannabis for everything from pain relief to earaches.
In fact, Hindus believed that the god Shiva brought cannabis to Earth and not just for humans to use. Turns out the god Shiva was also a big fan of this plant.
Absolutely would.
But look, different cultures consumed cannabis in different ways. Some cultures mixed it into food. In India, they made a drink called Bang.
Yeah, absolutely. In fact, I would be willing to bet that in our lifetime, we will see a sketchy energy drink called Bang.
But in 1440 BCE, Herodotus wrote about cannabis steam baths. In the second century, Greek Dr. Galen prescribed cannabis as medicine and Chinese doctors used cannabis for surgery.
I assume so. Although, interestingly enough, that was one of the PSAs of the 1980s that today it plays more like a Saturday Night Live sketch. A surgeon stands over a patient smoking a joint while the narrator opines, if your surgeon was smoking pot, would you still consider it harmless?
No, exactly. Interestingly enough, the Chinese made cannabis into a kind of wine. It's versatile. During the Middle Ages, Muslims in the Middle East used cannabis, which is very interesting because the Koran strictly prohibited alcohol, but there was no mention of cannabis. So is it true?
Yeah, me neither. And I did some research, but let's just be clear. In the olden days, we're referring to it was actually hashish that they were smoking, which is basically a potent extract of cannabis. The first known mention of hash is in a pamphlet published in Cairo in 1123, accusing
nazari muslims of being hashish eaters so does that work you can eat it all right i don't know maybe but it maybe just was an ancient insult being like your mother eats hashish i'm not sure i see either way hash was big business with morocco and afghanistan being the biggest exporters of this potent concoction but as far as the modern muslims go it's still debated
Most people agree that using cannabis for recreation goes against Islamic law, but using it for medicinal reasons is a different matter. In 2014, the Grand Ayatollah Saeed Mohammed Saadeq Haissani Rouhani of Iran... Close.
Really close. He issued a fatwa or a legal religious ruling in it. He stated spiritual plant medicines and psychedelics are halal for Shia Muslims with supervision.
Look, if you're going to trip, I guess you got to do it with your mom. Both the French and the British, by the way, had their colonists growing cannabis in the New World. So our country was founded in some parts on weed. Yeah. And other parts on slavery and misogyny.
No, I don't think the anti-cannabis people probably would, but I would say they are. I think smoking a little pot would make you less racist and misogynist myself. I feel like our research bears that out, but we'll get there. Yeah. In the 1700s, doctors widely prescribed cannabis as medicine in the Western world. The Irish doctor William O'Shaughnessy popularized its use as pain medicine.
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