History of Weed

BC

• 8,000 BC - first fabrics woven from hemp
• 4,000 BC - Chinese cultivate marijuana
• 2,700 - Shen Nung a father of Chinese medicine writes about cannabis
• 550 - Persian prophet writes 10,000 medicinal plants Cannabis is at the top.

AD

• 800 - Islamic prophet Mohammed allows the use of Marijuana but not alcohol
• 1150 - Muslims use cannabis to start first paper mills in Europe
• 1563 - Queen Elizabeth I orders land owners with more than 60 acres to grow hemp
• 1619 - Jamestown the first colony of America enacts the New Worlds marijuana legalization
• 1631 to 1632 -Mandatory hemp cultivation laws are passed in Massachussets and Conneticuit

more AD

• June 28, 1776 - The first draft of the Declaration of ondependance is written on hemp paper
• 1839 - doctors found that marijuana was good for anxiety
• 1939 - marijuana Stamp Act of 1939