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Date de parution
18 avril 2017
Nombre de lectures
0
EAN13
9781683351948
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
3 Mo
Publié par
Date de parution
18 avril 2017
EAN13
9781683351948
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
3 Mo
Why We Get High
Know why cannabis is the most widely used illicit substance in the world?
Because it s awesome, that s why.
And why s it awesome? For one thing, it s medicine, used since the days of Aristotle
and the pharaohs, to help relieve everything from pain to anguish and anxiety.
For another, getting high feels good-really good. It enhances your
sensory experiences, plays hopscotch with your sense of time,
and can make even the mundane magnificent.
To begin our scratch-and-sniff
exploration of the
neurological, historical, physiological, psychological, sexual,
cultural, and political world of weed, let s start with what
happens in your mind and body when you smoke, the most
common form of consumption.
Smoking releases weed s active compounds (cannabinoids
and terpenes-more on those later), which pass through your
mouth, high-fiving your olfactory epithelium (the thing you smell
with), and head down to your lungs. They then hitch a ride in
your bloodstream, your heart pumping them like little boats of
happiness, all the way to your brain, where they dive-bomb
your cannabinoid receptors, cuing the release of dopamine,
which boosts your receptivity to pleasure, whether in the
form of music, sex, Cool Ranch Doritos, or vacuuming.
See? Awesome.
But while getting high is definitely weed s funnest
effect, it s not the only one, nor the most medically
important. We ll get into all of that, but suffice it to say
that the individual effects vary based on a whole bunch
of things, including botany, potency, consumption
method, and genetics.
Come on, girlfriend. You can t sniff an ebook.
Mmmm,
french fries.
This book is dedicated to Mary Jane Rathbun, and whoever it was that first
married fire and cannabis. We thank you both.
And it doesn t stop there. Weed s true impact travels beyond our individual bodies
and minds-to our culture, our industry, our politics, our society, our spirituality, and,
of course, our noses-all of which we ll explore in the next twenty pages of this book, our
brief homage to this awesome plant.
Humans have given cannabis many names: weed, chronic, Miley Cyrus, pot. But there s one,
marijuana
, that we choose to avoid because of its racist origins. Harry Anslinger, the first
head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who really began the war on drugs, popularized
marijuana in the 1930s. Anslinger, seeking weed s prohibition, stoked racist fires, saying
that marijuana makes darkies think they re as good as white men, and telling tales of
Mexicans and African Americans, high on marijuana, running through the streets commit-
ting murder and mayhem. With so many other terms to choose from, we won t use this one
unless it s factually necessary, and hope you won t either. We are the world and all that.
A (Really) Brief Histoy
2700 BC: FIRST RECORDED USE
The great mythological
emperor and pioneer-
ing herbalist Shen
Nung first classifies
cannabis in his
prehistoric Chinese
pharmacopoeia.
1213 BC: EGYPTIANS USE
CANNABIS FOR GLAUCOMA,
INFLAMMATION, AND ENEMAS
And no, not in a Ramesses, dude,
you gotta try this, it s like a bong hit
for your butt way.
1454: THE GUTENBERG BIBLE
IS PRINTED ON HEMP
1500: MUSLIM DOCTORS IN INDIA
USE CANNABIS TO STIFLE SEXUALITY
In a dubious move, cannabis is adminis-
tered to decrease sexuality. No report on
whether or not that worked.
1545: FIRST RECORDED ARRIVAL
IN THE NEW WORLD
Spanish colonists bring cannabis plants
to Chile to grow crops for fiber.
1753: LINNAEUS COINS
THE NAME
CANNABIS SATIVA
;
IT STICKS
Because when the father of modern
taxonomic nomenclature gives you
a name, you run with it.
1799: NAPOLEON INVADES
EGYPT, FINDS WEED
The little bastard imposes prohibition
on the Egyptians, but brings weed
back to France.
1900: WEED USED
FOR PAIN RELIEF
Before aspirin s
rediscovery, weed
is used as a common
substitute for pain
relief in the U.S.
CC:
@
DEA
1937: MARIHUANA TAX ACT OF 1937
Introduced by Harry Anslinger,
legalization s great nemesis, the act
was a legal milestone, making
weed s use, sale, and production a
federal offense.
Tea, because Shen
was an herbalist.
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