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🌿 How Did We Get Into This Stigmatized Cannabis Mess to Begin With?
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🌿 How Did We Get Into This Stigmatized Cannabis Mess to Begin With?

What happens when science, medicine, and culture all forget a plant that was never the enemy?

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Ben Caplan, MD
Apr 15, 2025
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Cannabis has been used across the globe for healing, ritual, and industry for more than 5,000 years. So why, for most of the last century, has it been banned, feared, and misrepresented? Why are we only now rediscovering its benefits, revisiting its biology, and reclaiming it from the shadows of stigma?

This is the story of a plant more misunderstood than any other. And a system that made forgetting it profitable. And this is a blog post summarizing the take-aways from this ridiculous reality our predecessors dropped on their children.

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