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Stuff To Blow Your Mind

Cannabis Files: Medical Marijuana

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

iHeartPodcasts

Science, Life Sciences, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences

4.36K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2016

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

It's easy to misjudge "medical marijuana" as an attempt by cannabis advocates to legitimize their favorite herb, but medicinal use of cannabis dates back to ancient times. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Christian explore both histo

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Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind from How Stuff Works.com.

1:41.0

Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lamb.

1:46.0

And I'm Christian Seger, and this is the second part of our Anabis Files episode.

1:53.0

We're taking a deep look at the science behind marijuana, and in particular in this episode, we're going to focus on its medical applications.

2:02.0

And the thing about medical applications with marijuana that's interesting is we've known about them for a very long time.

2:13.0

This isn't something new, right? You've only heard the term medical marijuana and maybe what?

2:18.0

Like the last 20 or 30 years here in the United States, but this goes back thousands of years.

2:23.0

Yeah, I feel like it's easy to sort of to hear about medical marijuana.

2:28.0

We're certainly going to have heard about it earlier on and think to yourself, oh, this is just marijuana users trying to legitimize their recreational use by saying, oh, it's actually good for you.

2:39.0

But really our relationship with medicinal marijuana goes back a long time.

2:44.0

Yeah, so we're going to give you a little bit more than Doug Benson's super high-me documentary here.

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