"Before we jump into the rules and regulations surrounding cannabis banking, it is important to look at the basics. What is cannabis exactly, how have the political and social relationship with cannabis changed over the years, and where does cannabis currently stand in the eyes of the government? Let us get started! The cultivation and use of the cannabis plant is not a new phenomenon. In fact, evidence of cannabis use dates back to around 2700 BC in China by Emperor Shen Nung, whose teachings and medical practices with the plant were passed down for generations by word of mouth before being recorded in a book on herbal remedies, written around the second century AD. Over time, the plant spread throughout Asia, into Europe, and by the sixteenth century, Spanish and English settlers were bringing it across to the Americas."--