Traditional Medicine

Cannabis did not leave Western medicine because it had suddenly been proven ineffective. By the time it was effectively removed from clinical practice in the mid-twentieth century, it had established a place in nineteenth-century medicine through roughly a century of…

Modern dosing language begins with a number. A milligram count precedes every other consideration: how much, before the form, before the timing, before the question of what kind of encounter the preparation will produce. That sequencing feels inevitable now, but…

Traditional cannabis medicine did not become usable because of the plant-it became usable because of how it was prepared. Raw cannabis was never a dependable medicine in the form in which it was harvested. Earlier practitioners were not working with…

Traditional discussions of cannabis often begin with the plant itself. This perspective assumes that earlier medical systems relied primarily on cannabis in the form in which it was harvested. Historical practice reveals a different pattern. Across cultures separated by geography,…