Since seeing Marc Emery, a Canadian cannibis crusader, appearing on 60 Minutes March, 2006, and reading the concurrent Free Republic thread, I’ve been reading off and on about the subject.
There is a lot of data out there now and it is amazing how the Freeping WODettes never read any of it.
They’re just here to irritate serious people.
I have been aware of the vast history of the use of cannabis in mercantile and medicinal products for about seventeen years or so. New historical uses continues to come to light as well as new research.
From your last article posted; it is interesting that the human body produces endocannabinoids (and of course has receptors for them.) AFAIK no other plant produces cannabinoids with the possible exception of hops (humulus lupus) which is cannabis' only close plant relative.