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Cannabis in India is used in three forms: ganja, bhang, and charas. Bhang is obtained from the dried leaves of Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica. The oleo-resinous exudate of the plants is called charas and the flowering tops are called ganja. [...]Chapitre
The first section of this paper traces the history of cannabis as it relates to ancient Greece, Byzantium, the Greek-speaking populations under Ottoman domination, and modern Greece. While it is clear that ancient Greeks were aware of the use of[...]Chapitre
During the 1960s, the characteristics of the marihuana-using population in the U.S. changed from a predominantly lower socioeconomic minority group to one of middle to upper-upper status. It is argued that this transition resulted from large num[...]Chapitre
Traditional multipurpose use of ganja, introduced to Jamaica in the mid-nineteenth century by indentured laborers from India, was diffused to the black working class and has become endemic in the past forty to fifty years. Smoking ganja, althoug[...]Chapitre
The Chinese character for hemp, "ma", dates to about 3,000 years ago and was derived from an ideogram depicting the plant's fiber producing character. In early writings separate characters were assigned to male and female hemp plants, its seeds,[...]Chapitre
Members of an Indian tribal group living in small communities, near the Gulf of Mexico, use marihuana, which they call la santa rosa, in their religious ceremonies. La santa rosa is considered a sacred plant, as revealed in a myth of divine orig[...]Chapitre
A comprehensive field study, including videotape coverage and extensive laboratory research, was carried out in a small agricultural community in Jamaica, the West Indies. The research sought to explore whether cannabis altered the user's cognit[...]Chapitre
Data collected in Rwanda in 1959-1960 show cannabis in its social and cultural context. Cannabis use has its place in a socio-cultural system that determines its character and extent and that is in turn affected by the nature of cannabis use. Th[...]Chapitre
The contemporary complex of behavior and values associated with cannabis use among the working-class population of Jamaica is considered as an institution. Preceding the main discussion, brief summaries of the East Indian paternity of the comple[...]Chapitre
The paper examines the factors involved in resistance to hashish use by the traditional Jewish community in Morocco where hashish use was an accepted custom and the factors involved in their selective receptivity to the custom, paradoxically, af[...]Chapitre
On the basis of data derived from a major research project conducted by the National Center for Social and Criminological Research in Cairo on the use of cannabis in Egypt and several minor studies dealing with the same subject, this paper outli[...]Chapitre
The name Cannabis sativa L., published by Carl Linnaeus in 1753 in his Species plantarum, the internationally accepted basis for modern botanical nomenclature, is the first legitimate scientific name for the hemp grown in Europe where it had bee[...]