Cannabis Culture in Spain

I Sidro Marin Gutierrez is Sociologist associate professor at the University of Huelva. The Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Granada has published online the Dissertation Isidro Marin has done on the anti-prohibitionist cannabis activism and has obtained the highest academic qualification Cum Laude.
The thesis is entitled The Cannabis Culture in Spain (1991-2007) Socio-anthropological analysis of a new kind of social movement, a must-read document.

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Known or unknown history of cannabis

So begins this historical compilation by Isidro Marin

M uch has been made ​​of hemp and its derivatives (grifa, kif, hashish) whose history could be traced to 8000 BC Where, according to archaeological studies, marijuana was cultivated and in developing tissues.
The first historical references we have them in 2700 BC In where the emperor Shen-Nung in a pharmacopoeia book written about 2737 BC It confirms, "taken in excess tends to show monsters, if used for too long can communicate with spirits and lighten the body. "prescribes the resin for" female weakness, "gout, rheumatism, constipation, malaria, influenza, and fainting. In another book of Chinese literature from this period found the Nei Ching Emperor whose author would Kwang-ti. The flowers are used to heal open wounds. The seed coat and resin bonded to it was used to stimulate the nervous system. The seeds were used to combat inflammation of the skin and were regarded as a tonic, tonics, laxatives, diuretics and well suited to extract the worms to infants and animals. Oil was used as a tonic for the hair and as an antidote to the poisoning of sulfur. The fresh juice of the leaves was used to treat scorpion bites and fiber for cordage and textiles.
The Chinese were the first to produce paper in the first century AD. C. And the oldest writings of Buddhist texts are second and third centuries made with hemp. The oldest remains of hemp (4000 a. C.) have been found in China, and a millennium later in Turkestan, consider making it a plant originally cultivated there.

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Original title: The War on (Certain) drugs . (From the book "What Uncle Sam Really Wants")
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The illicit drug industry feeds the tremendous social problems and violence in Brazil. Levels of drug-related violence in urban centers are comparable to those of a war zone. In Rio de Janeiro more minors killed by firearms in Colombia. In the rural Northeast Brazil in the so-called 'circle of marijuana', levels of violence can sometimes be even higher due to land disputes and disputes relating to the illicit cultivation of marijuana.

This issue of Drugs & Conflict describes the context of drug-related violence in the areas of marijuana cultivation in the Northeast, and in the favelas of Rio. It also examines the new drug law that is pending in Congress. Although this law represents a step forward in differentiating trafficker consumer concerns remain about whether the law effectively achieved to address the issue given its limited scope.

The problem did not begin with drugs, but current drug control policies encourage violence accompanying social conflict in Brazil. This is a huge challenge for the government of President Lula. In coalition with other nations that want to see reform, Brazil could help build a policy of harm reduction in the area of ​​drug control covering the whole chain from production to consumption, a policy in which the cure is not worse than the disease.

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• UNODC Report 2008 - PDF
• UNODC Report 2009 - PDF