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Here are two recent lectures I gave for Ted Smith's Hempology 101, discussing cannabis and hemp in the ancient world. Here are two recent lectures I gave for Ted Smith's Hempology 101, discussing cannabis and hemp in the ancient world.

CANNABIS CULTURE - January 23, 2012 marks the 100th birthday of the first international drug control treaty, the International Opium Convention, signed at the Hague in 1912

In 1913, El Paso became one of the first cities to ban marijuana. Other communities soon followed suit, and by 1937 the drug was banned by the federal government.

I remember, several years before Marc Emery came to Vancouver, walking into a room of activists with the intent of introducing the idea that marijuana prohibition was a human rights issue.

Long ago, shamans -- and reindeer -- in the Far East were known to eat red and white mushrooms. And then hallucinate. A Harvard biologist asks, is it possible this is the source of the "jolly" man in the red and white suit and his "flying" reindeer?
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