ABOUT MEDICAL CANNABIS
Not a novel medicine -
-2800 BCE
Present in pharmacopoeia of Chinese Emperor Shen Nung
-70 CE
Roman physician Dioscorides records medical properties
-1788
Plants sent to Australia by Sir Joseph Banks on the First Fleet
-1870
Listed in US Pharmacopoeia
-1890
Prescribed by Queen Victoria's personal physician
Eli Lilly, Parke-Davis (now owned by Pfizer) and Squibb of Bristol-Myers Squibb all sold medical marijuana at the turn of the century. Almost 6% of all manufactured drugs at the turn of the century contained cannabis in one form or another
-1930s
Prohibition
-1996
Compassionate medical use in California
-2001
Medical use federally approved in Canada
-2016
Medical use federally approved in Australia
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