ABSTRACT
This chapter is intended to update our knowledge of the medical use of cannabis in the Classical world, a topic on which the only serious discussion is Brunner (1973, largely repeated in Brunner 1977). While no previously unknown texts have been discovered in the meantime, the availability of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (a searchable database of ancient Greek literature developed by Dr. Brunner and others) now permits a more thorough investigation of the ancient sources than ever before; the result has been not only to reveal some additional treatments not known to Brunner but also to suggest a new understanding of some of the data.
