Between 1840 and 1900, European and American medical journals published more than 100 articles on the therapeutic uses of the drug known then as Cannabis indica (or Indian hemp) and known now as marijuana. It was recommended as an appetite stimulant, muscle relaxant, analgesic, hypnotic, and anticonvulsant. As late as 1913, Sir William Osler recommended it as the most satisfactory remedy for a migraine headache. Today people all over the world are (illegally) using marijuana to manage cancer (chemotherapy), and AIDS, and epilepsy, and multiple sclerosis, and clinical depression, and anxiety, and glaucoma, and Tourette Syndrome, and abdominal cramps, and motion sickness, and arthritis, and insomnia, and alcoholism, and lupus, and Crohn’s disease, and… POTANICAL GARDEN is all about sick people who have been forced to take the law into their own hands.
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