Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years
# Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years

Marihuana: The First Twelve Thousand Years is a book by Ernest Lawrence Abel about the history of cannabis, first published in 1980.

## Table of contents

* Cannabis in the Ancient World
* Hashish and the Arabs
* Rope and Riches
* Cannabis Comes to the New World
* New Uses for the Old Hemp Plant
* The Indian Hemp Drug Debate
* The African Dagga Cultures
* The Hashish Club
* Hashish in America
* America's Drug Users
* Reefer Racism
* The Jazz Era
* Outlawing Marihuana

## Reception

The book received reviews from publications including The Quarterly Review of Biology, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, and The Public Historian.

