What the authors call a "burial shroud" found in 2400+ year old cemetery. "An extraordinary cache of ancient, well-preserved Cannabis plant remains was recently discovered in a tomb in the Jiayi cemetery of Turpan, NW China. Radiometric dating of this tomb and the archeobotanical remains it contained indicate that they are approximately 2800–2400 years old. Both morphological and anatomical features support the identification of the plant remains as Cannabis. Research discussed in this paper describes 13 nearly whole plants of Cannabis that appear to have been locally produced and purposefully arranged and used as a burial shroud which was placed upon a male corpse."

73. [...] After burying their dead, Scythians purify themselves. First they anoint and rise their hair, then, for their bodies, they lean three poles against another, cover the poles with felted woolen blankets, making sure that they fit together as tightly as possible, and then put red-hot stones from the fire on to a dish which has been placed in the middle of the pole-and-blanket structure.

74. Now there is a plant growing in their country called cannabis, which closely resembles flax, except that cannabis is thicker-stemmed and taller. In Scythia, in fact, it is far taller. It grows wild, but is also cultivated, and the Thracians use it, as well as flax, for making clothes. These clothes are so similar to ones made out of flax that it would take a real expert to tell the difference between the two materials. Anyone unfamiliar with cannabis would suppose that the clothes were linen.

75. The Scythians, as I said, take cannabis seeds, crawl in under the felt blankets, and throw the seeds on to the glowing stones. The seeds then emit dense smoke and fumes, much more than any vapour-bath in Greece. The Scythians shriek with delight at the fumes. This is their equivalent of a bath, since they never wash their bodies with water.

The Portuguese title is: "Colóquios dos simples e drogas he cousas medicinais da Índia".

Dr. Horatio C. Wood, Jr., a physician and professor of botany, experimented with extract of hemp. In the first assay (dose: "20 to 30 grains" of extract), at first he did not experience effects, which developed later while he made a house call to see a patient. After a period of mirth and well-being, at T+4:00 he developed "a constant and overwhelming dread of impending death, which no amount of assurance could relieve for more than an instant." He later repeated the experiment with smaller doses.

The act required correct labelling of products containing "alcohol, morphine, opium, cocaine, heroin, alpha or beta eucaine, chloroform, cannabis indica, chloral hydrate, or acetanilide, or any derivative or preparation of any such substances contained therein."

The date of this conviction has been incorrectly listed as March 26 in the literature (Stafford 1983/1992; Ott 1993/1996).

33 FR 11814

CA Prop 215 notably did not require an actual prescription, to try to avoid doctors being prosecuted or censured for 'prescribing' a drug that is specifically disallowed under state and federal law. Under U.S. law, all Schedule I drugs are defined to be with "no medical use" and, as such, cannabis is defined as a non-medicine. In several legal cases, doctors won the right to 'recommend' cannabis to patients without committing a federal crime.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/drugs/Story/0,2763,753168,00.html

Held in Charlottesville, VA, sponsored by The Office of Continuing Medical Education of the University of Virginia’s Health System and co-presented by Patients Out of Time, the University of Virginia School of Nursing, the Pain Management Center, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia School of Medicine, the Virginia Nurses Association, and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Held at Somerville College Oxford, England, this was the Third International Association for Cannabis as Medicine (IACM) Conference.