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Queen Victoria was prescribed cannabis for menstrual pain

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The matriarch of the incredibly prudish and sexually repressed Victorian era was getting absolutely baked once a month. Her personal physician, Sir J. Russell Reynolds, officially prescribed her heavily concentrated marijuana tinctures to alleviate severe menstrual pain. He even declared it 'one of the most valuable medicines we possess.' The queen ruling a quarter of the globe was secretly a massive stoner.

Queen Victoria was prescribed cannabis for menstrual pain
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