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Richard Rudgely on medical uses
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Richard Rudgley - The Encyclopaedia of Psychoactive substances
“The method of use of the plant for its psychoactive effects in south-east Asia has been in the form of ‘grass’ – that is the leaves, flowering tops and stalks were smoked, usually with tobacco. In Cambodia the plant is sometimes boiled and some of the resulting liquid is sprinkled on tobacco and then it is smoked. The smoking of cannabis resin in the region seems to be due to recent foreign influence. Until the current ‘drug problem’ introduced and caused by Western foreigners – it was common place in Thailand to employ cannabis for its analgesic and other medical uses. An infusion of the tops was given in small quantities at meal times to women who had just given birth….”