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"To the Hindu the hemp plant is holy... Shiva explains to Parvati how, in sowing hemp seed, when the seedlings are planted, and the leaves and flowers dried & burnt, you should keep repeating the holy name 'Bhangi, Bhangi, Bhangi'..." - from On The Religion Of Hemp, JM Campbell, Appendix to the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report of 1893-94 Get the rest of the story on chillum mantras ~ & all that's good to know about the amazing herb ~ in The Newbies' Guide To Medicinal Cannabis by The Dà Má Collective 大 麻 www.thedamacollective.com/ChillumMantras #bhang #BoomShiva #sacred #EducateYourself @TheDaMaCollective #respect #cannabisculture #growlife #420 #710

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A public service message... Save your seeds and sow! 🌱💦⚜ #SowSeeds #GrowLife #WildWeed #Love #Life #bhang #boomshiva #MaGuXianShou #420 #710

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Cannabis Tolerance Breaks: When It’s Time For A Time-Out ~ At some point along the cannabis consumption journey, regular consumers may find that a tolerance break is in order. A tolerance break is a period of abstaining from (or sharply limiting/decreasing) cannabis consumption, primarily to downregulate the body’s cannabinoid receptor system. Other reasons for tolerance breaks include personal growth (a t-break can be a useful barometer of healing/progress), job/employment, finances, travel, etc. It takes about 2 days for the body to adjust/regulate the amount & availability of cannabinoid receptors to compensate for a decrease/deficit in cannabis. Upon resuming cannabis intake, people often find they need less herb than before the t-break. There may be some physical or mental/emotional withdrawal symptoms (often relatively mild but could be potentially challenging), and people with borderline/intense conditions (or intensive medication regimens) may want to take tolerance breaks with care. Learn more about tolerance breaks & your cannabinoid receptor system in The Newbie’s Guide To Medicinal Cannabis by The Da Ma Collective www.thedamacollective.com #EducateYourself #DissolveTheStigma @DaMaCollective #JustSayKnow #respect #SafetyBreak #EndoCannabinoidSystem #anandamide #boomshiva #MaGuXianShou #420 #710

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"Like wild winds the draughts have raised me up Have I been drinking soma? The draughts have borne me up, as swift steeds a chariot Have I been drinking soma? The hymn has reached me, as a cow to her dear calf Have I been drinking soma? Not even as a mote in my eye do the five tribes count with me Have I been drinking soma? As a chariot-maker bends a chariot-seat, I bend this frenzy round my heart Have I been drinking soma? In my glory I have passed beyond the sky and the great earth Have I been drinking soma? I will pick up this spacious earth, and put it here or put it there. Have I been drinking soma?” From Rig Veda Book X, Hymn 119 verses 2-9. Composed 2800+ years ago (800+ BC). Get the whole story on soma aka bhang, ganja, cannabis, Indra’s food (1 of the five sacred plants of the Vedas) in The Newbie’s Guide To Medicinal Cannabis!www.thedamacollective.com #medicine #ayurveda #healing #herb #history #culture #tradition #sacred #holy #EducateYourself #DissolveTheStigma #blessup #charas #omganesha #boomshiva #shubhlabh #420 #710

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Amrita, the healing elixir of immortality, aka cannabis one of the Five Sacred Herbs of the Vedas, was one of the divine treasures created by the gods by churning the milk of the cosmic ocean at the beginning of the first age. The resulting canna-butter was caught by the physician of the gods (Dhanvantari) into his healing pot (kumbha). The four places (in India) where this holy nectar splashed from the heavens to earth are said to be where the first bhang (cannabis) plants sprouted, given to humans through heavenly desire for the welfare of all people. These 4 sites are the location of the Kumbha Mela festivals, since time immemorial the largest spiritual gatherings on the planet (regularly attended by 15-30+ million people). As told in the Mahabharata, ~800BC. Get the whole story on cannabis’s integral role throughout human history & the healing arts in The Newbie’s Guide To Medicinal Cannabis! Pre-order your copy! www.thedamacollective.com #cannabis #history #culture #EducateYourself #DissolveTheStigma #Sacred #Knowledge #ReligiousFreedom #Blessup #Ganesha #Shiva #Charas #longevity #Ayurveda #shubhlabh #710

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"To meet someone carrying bhang [cannabis] is a sure sign of success. To see in a dream the leaves, plant or water of bhang is lucky; it brings the Goddess of Wealth into the dreamer’s power. A longing for bhang foretells happiness; to see bhang drunk increases riches. No good thing can come to a man who treads underfoot the holy bhang leaf” From J.M. Campbell, On The Religion Of Hemp, 1894. Get the whole story on cannabis’s integral role throughout human history & the healing arts in The Newbie’s Guide to Medicinal Cannabis! www.TheDaMaCollective.com #EducateYourself #DissolveTheStigma #JustSayKnow #ReLegalizeIt #cannabis #education #history #culture #tradition #dreams #runes #divination #inguz #vikingweed #blessings #harmony #sacredherb

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In 1988 the chief administrative law judge of the Drug Enforcement Administration (Francis Young) wrote “In its natural form, #cannabis is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man. In strict medical terms, cannabis is far safer than many foods we commonly consume” In 2003 The United States of America (as represented by the Department of Health & Human Services) filed patent #6630507 for the medical use of cannabinoids. Get the whole story on Nature’s oldest & safest medicine in The Newbie’s Guide To Medicinal Cannabis! www.TheDaMaCollective.com #EducateYourself #JustSayKnow #DissolveTheStigma #GoodPeopleSmokeWeed #History #Freedom #Herbalism #Medicine #Herbalism #ReLegalizeIt #MedicalMarijuana #MaGuXianShou #420 #710 @DaMaCollective #hemp #safety #420 #710

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Cannabis was in widespread medical use in the USA up until Cannabis Prohibition ~ the amazing herb was listed in the official US Pharmacopoeia from 1851-1941. Cannabis medicines were consumed daily by millions of American men, women & children and ganja was a common ingredient in a significant portion of everyday remedies found in a typical American household medicine cabinet. Pre-1937 there were between 20,000-30,000 different brand/trade names of cannabis medicine being made by pharmaceutical manufacturers small & large, including Lilly, Pfizer and Parke-Davies (as evidenced by their product catalogs). Cannabis cigarettes were sold to treat asthma. Get the whole story on Nature’s oldest & safest medicine in The Newbie’s Guide To Medicinal Cannabis! www.TheDaMaCollective.com #EducateYourself #JustSayKnow #History #Medicine #Cannabis #Tincture #Herbalism #SafestTherapeuticallyActiveSubstanceOnThePlanet #DissolveTheStigma #Elevate #GoodPeopleSmokeWeed #ReLegalizeIt #MaGuXianShou #420 #710

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Cannabis was in widespread medical use in the USA up until Cannabis Prohibition ~ the amazing herb was listed in the official US Pharmacopoeia from 1851-1941. Cannabis medicines were consumed daily by millions of American men, women & children and ganja was a common ingredient in a significant portion of everyday remedies found in a typical American household medicine cabinet. Pre-1937 there were between 20,000-30,000 different brand/trade names of cannabis medicine being made by pharmaceutical manufacturers small & large, including Lilly, Pfizer & Parke-Davies (as evidenced by their product catalogs). Cannabis cigarettes were sold to treat asthma. Get the whole story on Nature’s oldest & safest medicine in The Newbie’s Guide To Medicinal Cannabis! www.TheDaMaCollective.com #EducateYourself #JustSayKnow #History #Medicine #Cannabis #Tincture #Herbalism #SafestTherapeuticallyActiveSubstanceOnThePlanet #DissolveTheStigma #Elevate #GoodPeopleSmokeWeed #ReLegalizeIt #MaGuXianShou #420 #710

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Queen Victoria’s personal physician, Sir J. Russell Reynolds, M.D., recommended cannabis to his patients for menstrual cramps, insomnia, neuralgia, migraine, and other maladies. Get the whole story on cannabis’s integral role throughout the fabric of human history & the healing arts in The Newbie’s Guide To Medicinal Cannabis! www.TheDaMaCollective.com (See Therapeutic Uses and Toxic Effects of Cannabis Indica, J. Russell Reynolds, M.D., F.R.S. in Lancet. vol. I, March 22, 1890) #cannabis #UK #KnowYourHistory #EducateYourself #JustSayKnow #ReLegalizeIt #hemp #herbalism #Camden #420 #710

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Cannabis was used for medicinal, religious, and everyday purposes by ancient Greeks, Scythians, Thracians & Minoans. Cannabis (the word "cannabis" was originally Scythian) was known for promoting Eudaimonia: a general state of well-being. Archaeological & anthropological evidence of ancient spiritual & religious cannabis use includes a 2,300 year old (300BC) Scythian/Thracian incense burner containing cannabis residue, and a 2,000 year old Scythian mummy found buried with a ceremonial container of cannabis. Learn more about the amazing herb’s role in the fabric of human history & the healing arts in The Newbie’s Guide to Medicinal Cannabis! www.TheDaMaCollective.com #Cannabis #History #Mythology #Labyrinth #GoldenThread #Sacred #ReligiousFreedom #FreeWeed #EducateYourself #DissolveTheStigma #cannabis #hemp #herbalism #420 #710 @DaMaCollective

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"Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, . . . and sow it everywhere!” - George Washington, 1st US president & founding father, in a letter from February 24, 1894 to his farm plantation field manager, William Pearce. Learn the whole story of cannabis (the plant the Declaration Of Independence was drafted on!) in The Newbie’s Guide to Medicinal Cannabis ~ www.TheDaMaCollective.com #WeedThePeople #Freedom #Liberty #EducateYourself #Cannabis #History #FoundingFathers #Mason #GeorgeWashingtonGrewCannabis #GoodPeople #JustSayKnow #DissolveTheStigma #Hemp #420 #MaGuXianShou @DaMaCollective

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Mazel Toke! In December 2015, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky and Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein, considered the leading living ultra-Orthodox authorities on halacha (Jewish religious law), ruled that medicinal cannabis is kosher (for Passover & other high holy days) and using medicinal cannabis products to relieve pain should be regarded as a mitzvah (an imperative, a commandment). Get the whole story on cannabis’s integral role in global culture & the healing arts in The Newbie’s Guide to Medicinal Cannabis! www.TheDaMaCollective.com #cannabis #holy #kosher #passover #judaism #blessed #sacred #EducateYourself #DissolveTheStigma #medicalcannabis #hemp #herbalism #420 #710

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"The peasants of Europe” have been using cannabis as medicine, ritual material to commune with their deity(s) & ancestors, and to smoke, chew, eat, and feed their animals (cattle, poultry, etc.), as far back as oral and written traditions go… Learn more about the amazing herb’s integral role in the fabric of human history in The Newbie’s Guide to Medicinal Cannabis: www.TheDaMaCollective.com Photo = the Triple Spiral (triskele), found (among many other places) at Newgrange in the UK (County Meath, Ireland), ~3,000 BC (older than Stonehenge and the pyramids!) #cannabis #history #education #EducateYourself #DissolveTheStigma #JustSayKnow #medicaljane #cannabiscommunity #hemp #medicalcannabis #herbalism #420 #newgrange #triskele #triplespiral #goddess

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Medicinal cannabis is mentioned in at least 6 ancient Egyptian medical texts/papyruses (1700 B.C. - 200 A.D.). Cannabis was used in Egypt for (among other things) inflammation, finger/toe/nail injuries, childbirth, fever, eye issues, uterine/gynecological issues, migraines, gangrene, colorectal issues, tumors, & as an antibacterial. The oldest known intact samples of cannabis flowers (so far) were discovered in Egypt: ~4,000 years old. Get the whole story on the amazing herb’s integral role in human culture & the healing arts in The Newbie’s Guide To Medicinal Cannabis! www.TheDaMaCollective.com #cannabis #history #education #EducateYourself #JustSayKnow #Egypt #Hathor #Isis #Inanna #Goddess #culture #DissolveTheStigma #herbalism #hemp #medicine #KnowledgeIsPower #420 #710 #710society

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Take a ride on The Da Ma Collective’s new Weed Wheel! This interactive “strain explorer” web application helps you visualize & explore the relationships between different cannabis strains, therapeutic effects, and flavors/aromas (which depend on the amounts & ratios of the various cannabinoids, terpenes, and other bio-active compounds that tend to occur in a particular strain). Great for learning about new strains + supporting & enhancing conversations between cannabis consumers, healthcare providers, caregivers & dispensaries. Also handy for identifying that “mystery nug” :-) Dial into the Weed Wheel & learn more about our educational work at www.TheDaMaCollective.com #cannabis #science #JustSayKnow #weed #wheel #medicalmarijuana #mmj #ganja #herbalism #educateyourself #420 #710 #hemp

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Cannabis (aka Indra’s food) is one of the five sacred & essential plants mentioned in the Vedas (Hindu scriptures): "Asvattha [sacred fig]; Darbha [meditation grass]; King of Plants is Soma [cannabis/bhang/charas], deathless sacrifice; Barley and Rice are all healing balms, the immortal sons of Heaven.” Get the whole story on the sacred healing herb in The Newbie’s Guide To Medicinal Cannabis! www.TheMaCollective.com (From Atharvaveda, Book 8 Hymn VII [A charm to restore a sick man to health], Verse 20) #educate #cannabis #history #culture #vedas #ayurveda #bhang #charas #shivah #kumbamela #ganges @DaMaCollective #hemp #420 #710 #DissolveTheStigma #om #ganesha #saraswati #boomshivah