Myth: Marijuana's Harms Have Been Proved Scientifically. In the 1960s
and 1970s, many people believed that marijuana was harmless. Today we
know that marijuana is much more dangerous than previously believed.

Fact: In 1972, after reviewing the scientific evidence, the National
Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded that while marijuana
was not entirely safe, its dangers had been grossly overstated. Since
then, researchers have conducted thousands of studies of humans,
animals, and cell cultures. None reveal any findings dramatically
different from those described by the National Commission in 1972. In
1995, based on thirty years of scientific research editors of the
British medical journal Lancet concluded that "the smoking of cannabis,
even long term, is not harmful to health."

Myth: Marijuana Has No Medicinal Value. Safer, more effective drugs are
available. They include a synthetic version of THC, marijuana's primary
active ingredient, which is marketed in the United States under the name
Marinol.

Fact: Marijuana has been shown to be effective in reducing the nausea
induced by cancer chemotherapy, stimulating appetite in AIDS patients,
and reducing intraocular pressure in people with glaucoma. There is also
appreciable evidence that marijuana reduces muscle spasticity in
patients with neurological disorders. A synthetic capsule is available
by prescription, but it is not as effective as smoked marijuana for many
patients. Pure THC may also produce more unpleasant psychoactive side
effects than smoked marijuana. Many people use marijuana as a medicine
today, despite its illegality. In doing so, they risk arrest and
imprisonment.

Myth: Marijuana is Highly Addictive. Long term marijuana users
experience physical dependence and withdrawal, and often need
professional drug treatment to break their marijuana habits.

Fact: Most people who smoke marijuana smoke it only occasionally. A
small minority of Americans - less than 1 percent - smoke marijuana on a
daily basis. An even smaller minority develop a dependence on marijuana.
Some people who smoke marijuana heavily and frequently stop without
difficulty. Others seek help from drug treatment professionals.
Marijuana does not cause physical dependence. If people experience
withdrawal symptoms at all, they are remarkably mild.

Myth: Marijuana is a Gateway Drug. Even if marijuana itself causes
minimal harm, it is a dangerous substance because it leads to the use of
"harder drugs" like heroin, LSD, and cocaine.

Fact: Marijuana does not cause people to use hard drugs. What the
gateway theory presents as a causal explanation is a statistic
association between common and uncommon drugs, an association that
changes over time as different drugs increase and decrease in
prevalence. Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug in the United
States today. Therefore, people who have used less popular drugs such as
heroin, cocaine, and LSD, are likely to have also used marijuana. Most
marijuana users never use any other illegal drug. Indeed, for the large
majority of people, marijuana is a terminus rather than a gateway drug.

Myth: Marijuana Offenses Are Not Severely Punished. Few marijuana law
violators are arrested and hardly anyone goes to prison. This lenient
treatment is responsible for marijuana continued availability and use.

Fact: Marijuana arrests in the United States doubled between 1991 and
1995. In 1995, more than one-half-million people were arrested for
marijuana offenses. Eighty-six percent of them were arrested for
marijuana possession. Tens of thousands of people are now in prison or
marijuana offenses. An even greater number are punished with probation,
fines, and civil sanctions, including having their property seized,
their driver's license revoked, and their employment terminated. Despite
these civil and criminal sanctions, marijuana continues to be readily
available and widely used.

Myth: Marijuana Policy in the Netherlands is a Failure. Dutch law, which
allows marijuana to be bought, sold, and used openly, has resulted in
increasing rates of marijuana use, particularly in youth.

Fact: The Netherlands' drug policy is the most nonpunitive in Europe.
For more than twenty years, Dutch citizens over age eighteen have been
permitted to buy and use cannabis (marijuana and hashish) in
government-regulated coffee shops. This policy has not resulted in
dramatically escalating cannabis use. For most age groups, rates of
marijuana use in the Netherlands are similar to those in the United
States. However, for young adolescents, rates of marijuana use are lower
in the Netherlands than in the United States. The Dutch people
overwhelmingly approve of current cannabis policy which seeks to
normalize rather than dramatize cannabis use. The Dutch government
occasionally revises existing policy, but it remains committed to
decriminalization.

Myth: Marijuana Kills Brain Cells. Used over time, marijuana permanently
alters brain structure and function, causing memory loss, cognitive
impairment, personality deterioration, and reduced productivity.

Fact: None of the medical tests currently used to detect brain damage in
humans have found harm from marijuana, even from long term high-dose
use. An early study reported brain damage in rhesus monkeys after six
months exposure to high concentrations of marijuana smoke. In a recent,
more carefully conducted study, researchers found no evidence of brain
abnormality in monkeys that were forced to inhale the equivalent of four
to five marijuana cigarettes every day for a year. The claim that
marijuana kills brain cells is based on a speculative report dating back
a quarter of a century that has never been supported by any scientific
study.

Myth: Marijuana Causes an Amotivational Syndrome. Marijuana makes users
passive, apathetic, and uninterested in the future. Students who use
marijuana become underachievers and workers who use marijuana become
unproductive.

Fact: For twenty-five years, researchers have searched for a
marijuana-induced amotivational syndrome and have failed to find it.
People who are intoxicated constantly, regardless of the drug, are
unlikely to be productive members of society. There is nothing about
marijuana specifically that causes people to lose their drive and
ambition. In laboratory studies, subjects given high doses of marijuana
for several days or even several weeks exhibit no decrease in work
motivation or productivity. Among working adults, marijuana users tend
to earn higher wages than non-users. College students who use marijuana
have the same grades as nonusers. Among high school students, heavy use
is associated with school failure, but school failure usually comes
first.

Myth: Marijuana Impairs Memory and Cognition. Under the influence of
marijuana, people are unable to think rationally and intelligently.
Chronic marijuana use causes permanent mental impairment.

Fact: Marijuana produces immediate, temporary changes in thoughts,
perceptions, and information processing. The cognitive process most
clearly affected by marijuana is short-term memory. In laboratory
studies, subjects under the influence of marijuana have no trouble
remembering things they learned previously. However, they display
diminished capacity to learn and recall new information. This
diminishment only lasts for the duration of the intoxication. There is
no convincing evidence that heavy long-term marijuana use permanently
impairs memory or other cognitive functions.

Myth: Marijuana Can Cause Permanent Mental Illness. Among adolescents,
even occasional marijuana use may cause psychological damage. During
intoxication, marijuana users become irrational and often behave
erratically.

Fact: There is no convincing scientific evidence that marijuana causes
psychological damage or mental illness in either teenagers or adults.
Some marijuana users experience psychological distress following
marijuana ingestion, which may include feelings of panic, anxiety, and
paranoia. Such experiences can be frightening, but the effects are
temporary. With very large doses, marijuana can cause temporary toxic
psychosis. This occurs rarely, and almost always when marijuana is eaten
rather than smoked. Marijuana does not cause profound changes in
people's behavior.

Myth: Marijuana Causes Crime. Marijuana users commit more property
offenses than nonusers. Under the influence of marijuana, people become
irrational, aggressive, and violent.

Fact: Every serious scholar and government commission examining the
relationship between marijuana use and crime has reached the same
conclusion: marijuana does not cause crime. The vast majority of
marijuana users do not commit crimes other than the crime of possessing
marijuana. Among marijuana users who do commit crimes, marijuana plays
no causal role. Almost all human and animal studies show that marijuana
decreases rather than increases aggression.

Myth: Marijuana Interferes With Male and Female Sex Hormones. In both
men and women, marijuana can cause infertility. Marijuana retards sexual
development in adolescents. It produces feminine characteristics in
males and masculine characteristics in females.

Fact: There is no evidence that marijuana causes infertility in men or
women. In animal studies, high doses of THC diminish the production of
some sex hormones and can impair reproduction. However, most studies of
humans have found that marijuana has no impact of sex hormones. In those
studies showing an impact, it is modest, temporary, and of no apparent
consequence for reproduction. There is no scientific evidence that
marijuana delays adolescent sexual development, has feminizing effect on
males, or a masculinizing effect on females.

Myth: Marijuana Use During Pregnancy Damages the Fetus. Prenatal
marijuana exposure causes birth defects in babies, and, as they grow
older, developmental problems. The health and well being of the next
generation is threatened by marijuana use by pregnant women.

Fact: Studies of newborns, infants, and children show no consistent
physical, developmental, or cognitive deficits related to prenatal
marijuana exposure. Marijuana had no reliable impact on birth size,
length of gestation, neurological development, or the occurrence of
physical abnormalities. The administration of hundreds of tests to older
children has revealed only minor differences between offspring of
marijuana users and nonusers, and some are positive rather than
negative. Two unconfirmed case-control studies identified prenatal
marijuana exposure as one of many factors statistically associated with
childhood cancer. Given other available evidence, it is highly unlikely
that marijuana causes cancer in children.

Myth: Marijuana Use Impairs the Immune System. Marijuana users are at
increased risk of infection, including HIV. AIDS patients are
particularly vulnerable to marijuana's immunopathic effects because
their immune systems are already suppressed.

Fact: There is no evidence that marijuana users are more susceptible to
infections than nonusers. Nor is there evidence that marijuana lowers
users' resistance to sexually transmitted diseases. Early studies which
showed decreased immune function in cells taken from marijuana users
have since been disproved. Animals given extremely large doses of THC
and exposed to a virus have higher rates of infection. Such studies have
little relevance to humans. Even among people with existing immune
disorders, such as AIDS, marijuana use appears to be relatively safe.
However, the recent finding of an association between tobacco smoking
and lung infection in AIDS patients warrants further research into
possible harm from marijuana smoking in immune suppressed persons.

Myth: Marijuana is More Damaging to the Lungs Than Tobacco. Marijuana
smokers are at a high risk of developing lung cancer, bronchitis, and
emphysema.

Fact: Moderate smoking of marijuana appears to pose minimal danger to
the lungs. Like tobacco smoke, marijuana smoke contains a number of
irritants and carcinogens. But marijuana users typically smoke much less
often than tobacco smokers, and over time, inhale much less smoke. As a
result, the risk of serious lung damage should be lower in marijuana
smokers. There have been no reports of lung cancer related solely to
marijuana, and in a large study presented to the American Thoracic
Society in 2006, even heavy users of smoked marijuana were found not to
have any increased risk of lung cancer. Unlike heavy tobacco smokers,
heavy marijuana smokers exhibit no obstruction of the lung's small
airway. That indicates that people will not develop emphysema from
smoking marijuana.

Myth: Marijuana's Active Ingredient, THC, Gets Trapped in Body Fat.
Because THC is released from fat cells slowly, psychoactive effects may
last for days or weeks following use. THC's long persistence in the body
damages organs that are high in fat content, the brain in particular.

Fact: Many active drugs enter the body's fat cells. What is different
(but not unique) about THC is that it exits fat cells slowly. As a
result, traces of marijuana can be found in the body for days or weeks
following ingestion. However, within a few hours of smoking marijuana,
the amount of THC in the brain falls below the concentration required
for detectable psychoactivity. The fat cells in which THC lingers are
not harmed by the drug's presence, nor is the brain or other organs. The
most important consequence of marijuana's slow excretion is that it can
be detected in blood, urine, and tissue long after it is used, and long
after its psychoactivity has ended.

Myth: Marijuana Use is a Major Cause Of Highway Accidents. Like alcohol,
marijuana impairs psychomotor function and decreases driving ability. If
marijuana use increases, an increase in of traffic fatalities is
inevitable.

Fact: There is no compelling evidence that marijuana contributes
substantially to traffic accidents and fatalities. At some doses,
marijuana affects perception and psychomotor performances- changes which
could impair driving ability. However, in driving studies, marijuana
produces little or no car-handling impairment- consistently less than
produced by low moderate doses of alcohol and many legal medications. In
contrast to alcohol, which tends to increase risky driving practices,
marijuana tends to make subjects more cautious. Surveys of fatally
injured drivers show that when THC is detected in the blood, alcohol is
almost always detected as well. For some individuals, marijuana may play
a role in bad driving. The overall rate of highway accidents appears not
to be significantly affected by marijuana's widespread use in society.

Myth: Marijuana Related Hospital Emergencies Are Increasing,
Particularly Among Youth. This is evidence that marijuana is much more
harmful than most people previously believed.

Fact: Marijuana does not cause overdose deaths. The number of people in
hospital emergency rooms who say they have used marijuana has increased.
On this basis, the visit may be recorded as marijuana-related even if
marijuana had nothing to do with the medical condition preceding the
hospital visit. Many more teenagers use marijuana than use drugs such as
heroin and cocaine. As a result, when teenagers visit hospital emergency
rooms, they report marijuana much more frequently than they report
heroin and cocaine. In the large majority of cases when marijuana is
mentioned, other drugs are mentioned as well. In 1994, fewer than 2% of
drug related emergency room visits involved the use of marijuana.

Myth: Marijuana Is More Potent Today Than In The Past. Adults who used
marijuana in the 1960s and 1970s fail to realize that when today's youth
use marijuana they are using a much more dangerous drug.

Fact: When today's youth use marijuana, they are using the same drug
used by youth in the 1960s and 1970s. A small number of low-THC sample
sized by the Drug Enforcement Administration are used to calculate a
dramatic increase in potency. However, these samples were not
representative of the marijuana generally available to users during this
era. Potency data from the early 1980s to the present are more reliable,
and they show no increase in the average THC content of marijuana. Even
if marijuana potency were to increase, it would not necessarily make the
drug more dangerous. Marijuana that varies quite substantially in
potency produces similar psychoactive effects.

Myth: Marijuana Use Can Be Prevented. Drug education and prevention
programs reduced marijuana use during the 1980s. Since then, our
commitment has slackened, and marijuana use has been rising. By
expanding and intensifying current anti-marijuana messages, we can stop
youthful experimentation.

Fact: There is no evidence that anti-drug messages diminish young
people's interest in drugs. Anti-drug campaigns in the schools and the
media may even make drugs more attractive. Marijuana use among youth
declined throughout the 1980s, and began increasing in the 1990s. This
increase occurred despite young people's exposure to the most massive
anti-marijuana campaign in American history. In a number of other
countries, drug education programs are based on a "harm reduction"
model, which seeks to reduce the drug-related harm among those young
people who do experiment with drugs.

I'm shocked!!..pass that fat one over here eh?

plant it grow it smoke it.... just please dont drive, me and my daughter
might be on the same street you are, and i wouldnt want to take the
chance.

thanking you in advance


doc

I don't smoke anymore, cause of the laws. But I am fighting for the
legalization of marijuana/hemp.

Thats alot of typing. I think the weed made me lose interest in all
those facts MAN!

LOOK at Willy hes still going strong!

most that crap is wrong...marijuana is very harmful...seen its results
with my own eyes. when marijuana no longer works for the user he/she
looks for something stronger, usualy cocaine. I myself smoked it in my
early 20s..no way it can be good for you and that's why I quit smoking.
No, i will not be manipulated into believing it's not harmful.

good one crazy nice report keep going you should start a petition for it

The debate over the legalization of Cannabis Sativa, more commonly known
as marijuana, has been one of the most heated controversies ever to
occur in the Inited States. Its use as a medicine has existed for
thousands of years in many countries world wide and "can be documented
as far back as 2700 BC in ancient Chinese writings." When someone says
bhanga, ganja, kinnub, cannabis, bung, chu ts-ao, asa, dope, grass,
rasta, or weed, they are talking about the same subject: marijuana.
Marijuana should be legalized because the government could earn money
from taxes on its sale, its value to the medical world outweighs its
abuse potential, and because of its importance to the paper and clothing
industries. This action should be taken despite efforts made by groups
which say marijuana is a harmful drug which will increase crime rates
and lead users to other more dangerous substances.

The actual story behind the legislature passed against marijuana is
quite surprising. According to Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears
No Clothes and an expert on the "hemp conspiracy," the acts bringing
about the demise of hemp were part of a large conspiracy involving
DuPont, Harry J. Anslinger, commissioner of the Federal Bureau of
Narcotics, and many other influential industrial leaders such as William
Randolph Hearst and Andrew Mellon. Herer notes that the Marijuana Tax
Act, which passed in 1937, coincidentally occurred just as the
decoricator machine was invented. With this invention, hemp would have
been able to take over competing industries almost instantaneously.
According to Popular Mechanics, "10,000 acres devoted to hemp will
produce as much paper as 40,000 acres of average [forest] pulp land."
William Hearst owned enormous timber acreage, land best suited for
conventional pulp, so his interest in preventing the growth of hemp can
be easily explained. Competition from hemp would have easily driven the
Hearst paper-manufacturing company out of business and significantly
lowered the value of his land. Herer even suggests popularizing the term
"marijuana" was a strategy Hearst used in order to create fear in the
American public. "The first step in creating hysteria was to introduce
the element of fear of the unknown by using a word that no one had ever
heard of before... 'marijuana'" (ibid).

DuPont's involvment in the anti-hemp campaign can also be explained with
great ease. At this time, DuPont was patenting a new sulfuric acid
process for producing wood-pulp paper. "According to the company's own
records, wood-pulp products ultimately accounted for more than 80% of
all DuPont's railroad car loadings for the next 50 years" (ibid). Indeed
it should be noted that "two years before the prohibitive hemp tax in
1937, DuPont developed a new synthetic fiber, nylon, which was an ideal
substitute for hemp rope" (Hartsell). The year after the tax was passed
DuPont came out with rayon, which would have been unable to compete with
the strength of hemp fiber or its economical process of manufacturing.
"DuPont's point man was none other than Harry Anslinger...who was
appointed to the FBN by Treasury Secretary Andrew MEllon, who was also
chairman of the Mellon Bank, DuPont's chief financial backer.
Anslinger's relationship to Mellon wasn't just political, he was also
married to Mellon's niece" (Hartsell). It doesn't take much to draw a
connection between DuPont, Anslinger, and Mellon, and it's obvious that
all of these groups, including Hearst, had strong motivation to prevent
the growth of the hemp industry.

The reasoning behind DuPont, Anslinger, and Hearst was not for any moral
or health related issues. They fought to prevent the growth of this new
industry so they wouldn't go bankrupt. In fact, the American Medical
Association tried to argue for the medical benefits of hemp. Marijuana
is actually less dangerous than alcohol, cigarettes, and even most
over-the-counter medicines or prescriptions. According to Francis J.
Young, the DEA's administrative judge, "nearly all medicines have
toxicm, potentially letal affects, but marijuana is not such a
substance...Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest
therapeutically active substances known to man. By any measure of
rational analysis marijuana can be safely used within a supervised
routine of medical care" (DEA Docket No. 86-22, 57). It is illogical
then, for marijuana to be illegal in the United States when "alcohol
poisoning is a significant cause of death in this country" and
"approximately 400,000 premature deaths are attributed to cigarettes
annually." Dr. Roger Pertwee, SEcretary of the International Cannabis
Research Society states that as a recreational drug, "Marijuana compares
favourably to nicotine, alcohol, and even caffeine." Under extreme
amounts of alcohol a person will experience an "inability to stand or
walk without help, stupor and near unconsciousness, lack of
comprehension of what is seen or heard, shock, and breathing and
heartbeat may stop." Even though these effects occur only under insane
amounts of alcohol consumption, (.2-.5 BAL) the fact is smoking extreme
amounts of marijuana will do nothing more than put you to sleep, whereas
drinking excessive amounts of alcohol will kill you.

The most profound activist for marijuana's use as a medicine is Dr.
Lester Grinspoon, author of Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine. According
to Grinspoon, "The only well-confirmed negative effect of marijuana is
caused by the smoke, which contains three times more tars and five times
more carbon monoxide than tobacco. But even the heaviest marijuana
smokers rarely use as much as an average tobacco smoker. And, of course,
many prefer to eat it." His book includes personal accounts of how
prescribed marijuana alleviated epilepsy, weight loss of aids, nausea of
chemotherapy, menstrual pains, and the severe effects of multiple
sclerosis. The illness with the most documentation and harmony among
doctors which marijuana has successfully treated is MS. Grinspoon
believes for MS sufferers, "Cannabis is the drug of necessity." One
patient of his, 51 year old Elizabeth MacRory, says "It has completely
changed my life...It has helped with muscle spasms, allowed me to sleep
properly, and helped control my bladder." Marijuana also proved to be
effective in the treatment of glaucoma because its use lwoers pressure
on the eye.

"In a recent survey at a leading teaching hospital, 'over 60 per cent of
medical students were found to be marijuana users.' In the same survey,
only 30 per cent admitted to smoking cigarettes" (Guardian). Brian
Hilliard, editor of Police Review, says "Legalizing cannabis wouldn't do
any harm to anybody. We should be concentrating on the serious business
of heroin and amphetamines." "In the UK in 1991, 42,209 people were
convicted of marijuana charges, clogging courts and overcrowding
prisons...and almost 90 per cent of drug offences invlove cannabis...The
British government spends 500 million pounds a year on "overall
responses to drugs" but receives no tax revenue from the estimated 1.8
billion pound illicit drug market" (Guardian). Figures like this can be
seen in the United States as well. The U.S. spends billions of dollars
annually in its "war on drugs." If the government were to legalize
marijuana, it could reasonably place high taxes on it because people are
used to buying marijuana at inflated prices created by risks of selling
illegally. It could be sold at a convenient store just like a pack of
cigarettes for less than someone would pay now, but still yield a high
profit because of easy growing requirements.

An entire industry could be created out of hemp based products. The oils
extracted from seeds could be used for fuels and the hemp fiber, a fiber
so valued for its strength that it is used to judge the quality of other
fibers, could be manufactured into ropes, clothing, or paper. Most
importantly, the money the government would make from taxes and the
money which would be saved by not trying to prevent its use could be
used for more important things, such as serious drugs or the national
debt.

The recreational use of marijuana would not stimulate crime like some
would argue. The crime rate in Amsterdam is lower than many major U.S.
cities. Mario Lap, a key drug policy advisor in the Netherlands national
government says "We've had a realistic drug policy for 30 years in the
Netherlands, and we know what works. We distinguish between soft and
hard drugs, between traffickers and users. We try not to make people
into criminals" (Houston Chronicle). In 1989 the LAncet report states
"The Dutch have shown that there is nothing inevitable about the drugs
ladder in which soft drugs lead to heard drugs. The ladder does not
exist in Holland because the dealers have been separated."

We can expect strong opposition from companies like DuPont and paper
manufacturerss but the selfishness of these corporations should not
prevent its use in our society like it did in the 1930's. Regardless of
what these organizations will say about marijuana, the fact is it has
the potential to become one of the most useful substances in the entire
world. If we took action and our government legalized it today, we would
immediately see benefits from this decision. People suffering from
illnesses ranging from manic depression to multiple sclerosis would be
able to experience relief, the government could make a fortune off of
the taxes it could impose on its sale, and its implementation into the
industrial world would create thousands of new jobs for the economy.
Also, because of its role in paper making, the rain forests of South
America could be saved from their current fate. No recorded deaths have
ever occurred as a result of marijuana use, it is not physically
addictive like alcohol or tobacco, and most doctors will agree it is
safer to use.

New Hemp Farming Act Allows Only 0.3 percent THC

Why is THC so important to the hemp plant? And human race?

THC is like a prophylactic. The bud is the sex organ that produces seed.
THC coats it to protect it. The colder it is the more THC is produced.
Stress produces THC. If you have a plant that is producing less than 8
percent you have holes in your condom. If you have 8 percent or more it
will protect it.

Beginning at about 42 degrees it will start producing more THC. When
down to 32 or 34 degrees, there will be so much THC they will look
almost like they’re covered with ice. It just gets thicker and thicker.

How would an orange grow if you took off half its peel?

As a farmer, you want to make sure you give that plant every chance to
grow and be healthy.

If there is 8 percent or more THC, they can survive outside below
freezing with protection, like a plastic sheet over them.

Eddy Lepp - www.eddysmedicinalgardens.com
Jack Herer

P.S. We agree with the rest of the Bill, just not the THC percentage. We
are strongly against that part! The human race will not survive without
this plant.







How to Save the World with Cannabis/Hemp/Marijuana!


This is my work in progress. I'm entering it into the Virgin Earth
Challenge to stop global warming.

Plant hemp on 600 million acres of secondary farm land in the United
States.

Plant hemp on 600 million to 1 billion acres of secondary farm land in
Canada.

Plant hemp on 1 to 2 billion acres of secondary farm land in Russia and
Siberia.

Plant hemp on 1 to 2 billion acres of secondary farm land in Africa.

Plant hemp on 500 million acres of secondary farm land in South America.

Plant hemp on ? acres in Australia.

Plant hemp on ? acres in Asia.

Plant hemp on ? acres in Europe.

All fuel will be made of methanol or a derivative of hemp.

All fossil fuel, oil, coal, and natural gas will no longer be used. It
will stay in the ground for emergency only. For example, when we had the
earthquake Krakatoa, there was about two years that the sun was blocked
in that area.

All paper will be made from hemp. No trees will be cut for paper. That's
the way it was 130 years ago. That will save half the trees on the
planet that would otherwise be cut down in the next 30 years. All the
trees will be healthier and bigger.

Most building material will be made from hemp composite.

20 to 50 percent of all proteins for food will be made from hemp seeds.
In China, from 5,000 years ago to about 150 years ago, approximately 50
percent of all food was made from hemp seeds. And 20 percent of all food
in Europe. On the Chinese border from Laos to Nepal to Tibet to
Afghanistan all the way up to the northern border of Upper Mongolia, 50
percent of all proteins for food is still made out of hemp, and 90
percent of all butter. This starts on either side of the border to about
100 miles away from the border.

No more cotton for clothing, unless it is raised organically. Clothing
will mostly be made from hemp, bamboo, soy and flax.

Dr. Raphael Mechoulam in Israel believes that 30 percent of all
medicines will be made out of cannabis or combinations of cannabis and
other drugs.

The arid land from the Sahara all the way across the world will be
planted with hemp.

People from 18 to 30 years of age, throughout the world, will join a
different kind of military, the Hemp Corps, for planting and harvesting
and packaging hemp. In return for four years of duty, they will receive
four years of college paid by the government.

People will live about two year's longer using cannabis.

Everything will be a lot more fun. There will be new jobs for everybody.
The auto industry will build cars mostly from hemp. Computer companies
will build computers of hemp. Furniture will be made of hemp cloth and
hemp composite wood.

Hemp grows everywhere, from the Equator to the Arctic Circle, from the
valleys to about 6,000 feet up in the mountains. It's the healthiest of
the 3 million plants that grow on Earth. It has the deepest roots. It's
the only plant you can grow over and over each year, and the soil will
only get better.

People will be able to pay their taxes with hemp.

I wrote my book, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", 25 years ago. I have
been teaching people how to save the world with cannabis/hemp/marijuana
since 1979.

Prove us wrong! Prove us wrong! Prove us wrong!

We hereby extend our $100,000 challenge to prove us wrong!

If all fossil fuels and their derivatives, as well as trees for paper
and construction, were banned in order to save the planet, reverse the
greenhouse effect and stop deforestation; then there is only one known
annually renewable natural resource that is capable of providing the
overall majority of the world's paper and textiles; meet all of the
world's transportation, industrial and home energy needs, while
simultaneously reducing pollution, rebuilding the soil and cleaning the
atmosphere all at the same time... and that substance is the same one
that has done it before . . . CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA!

CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is the only known plant that can be grown from
the Equator to the Arctic Circle and to the Antarctic Circle; from the
mountains to the valleys, from the oceans to the plains, including arid
lands and everywhere in between. CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is the
healthiest plant for the ground out of the 300,000 known species, and
the millions and millions of subspecies, of plants on Earth, because it
has a root system that grows 10 to 12 inches in 30 days compared to one
inch for rye, barley grass, etc. The roots penetrate up to 6 feet deep,
pulverizing the soil and making it arable. After harvest it leaves a
root system that is mulched into the ground, revitalizing the land and
making it live once again. It is the KING KONG of the King Kongs of all
plant life.

All of my information about CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA has been taken from
Federal and State Department of Agriculture reports, articles from
Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Pulp & Paper Magazine, Scientific
American, entries from encyclopedias and pharmacopoeias, and studies
from all over the world during the last 200 years. This is all public
information. The United States government is hiding the fact that 125
years ago, and even as far back as 4000 BC, 80% of our economy was based
on the use of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA for paper, fiber and fuel. Ten to
20% of our drug economy was based on CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA medicines,
125 years ago.

CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was part of our everyday life. Virtually every
farm and every plot of land in the cities and towns across the United
States and the world, from 100-125 years ago and before, had a
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA patch growing. The U.S. government's cover-up of
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA outrages me and it should outrage you, too. I
have been studying CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA for over 30 years, and I
can't believe how the U.S. government, in 90 seconds in Congress, could
outlaw "MARIJUANA" in 1937, without the people realizing they were
outlawing CANNABIS/HEMP, the most perfect plant for the planet! They
even got other countries to outlaw it, too, after the Second World War
and beyond. From 1740 to 1940, 80% of all the world's
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was grown (mostly by Cossacks, who were
indentured servants), and then imported from, Russia.

I will again reiterate a few of the facts about CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA,
which you already know from reading my book, "The Emperor Wears No
Clothes."

CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was the NUMBER ONE annually renewable natural
resource for 80% of all paper, fiber, textiles and fuel, from 6,000
years ago until about 125 years ago. Furthermore, it was used for 5 to
50% of the food, light, land and soil reclamation, and even 20% or more
of all medicine. Everyone, from the educated to the uneducated, the
farmer to the townsperson, the doctors and the scientists used

CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA products and depended on them.75 to 90% of all
paper used from at least 100 AD to 1883 was made of CANNABIS/HEMP.
Books, (including Bibles), money and newspapers all over the world have
been mainly printed on CANNABIS/HEMP for as long as these things have
existed in human history.

One hundred and 25 years ago, 70 to 90% of all rope, twine, cordage,
ship sails, canvas, fiber, cloth, etc., was made out of CANNABIS/HEMP
fiber! It was replaced by DuPont's newly discovered petrochemical fiber
(nylon) beginning in 1937. By comparison, CANNABIS/HEMP is 4 times
softer than cotton, 4 times warmer, 4 times more water absorbent, has 3
times the strength of cotton, is many times more durable, is flame
retardant, and doesn't use pesticides. Fifty percent of all pesticides
are used on cotton, yet cotton uses only 1% of the farmland in the U.S!
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is the most health giving plant on Earth and it
doesn't require pesticides or herbicides! It is the healthiest plant for
human consumption, and for the Earth itself.

Eighty percent of our economy depended on CANNABIS/HEMP for paper, fiber
and fuel, 125 years ago. At that time, it took 300 man-hours to harvest
an acre of CANNABIS/HEMP, but with the invention of the brand new HEMP
decorticator in the 1930s, it only took 1-1/2 to 2 hours. This is
equivalent to reducing the labor burden from $6,000 down to $40 per
acre, in today's money. Keep in mind that the cotton gin, in 1793,
reduced the man-hours from 300 hours down to 2 hours to harvest and
clean an acre of cotton. CANNABIS/HEMP would have taken over the cotton
market, as it is far superior to cotton, and pesticide free. The role of
CANNABIS/HEMP should be determined by market supply and demand and not
by undue influence of prohibition laws, federal subsidies and huge
tariffs that keep the natural from replacing the synthetic. I repeat,
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is the KING KONG of the King Kongs of all
plants!

Of all the 300,000 species of plants on Earth, no other plant source can
compare with the nutritional value of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA seeds. It
is the only plant on Earth that provides us with the NUMBER ONE source,
and the perfect balance of essential amino acids, essential fatty acids,
globulin edestin protein, and essential oils all combined in one plant,
and in a form which is most naturally digestible to our bodies.

Prior to the 1800s, CANNABIS/HEMPSEED oil was the NUMBER ONE source for
lighting oil throughout the world. Until 1937-38, even paints and
varnishes were 80% CANNABIS/HEMPSEED oil. CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is
non-toxic and has been used to make high-grade diesel fuel, oil,
aircraft and precision oil and even the NUMBER ONE vegetable oil. The
U.S. Army/Navy standards purchasing specifications list HEMP OIL as the
NUMBER ONE preferred lubricant for their machinery. CANNABIS/HEMP is the
best sustainable source of plant pulp for biomass fuel to make charcoal,
gas, methanol, gasoline and electricity in a natural way.

In 1850, 80% of all paper, fiber, fuel, and oil was made out of
CANNABIS/HEMP in America and the rest of the world. This was before the
discovery of coal and petroleum for energy in the late 1850s...before
the start of the worst permanent pollution ever experienced on Earth...
fossil fuel pollution (coal and petroleum)!!

As a medicine, the worldwide use of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA goes back at
least 6,000 years. Remember, 10 to 20%t of our medicines used to be
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA based medicines. It has been found to be healthy
and effective in the treatment of chronic pain, cancer, strokes,
glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, sickle cell anemia, AIDS wasting and many
other illnesses, including simple nausea, appetite stimulant, anxiety
and muscle pains, etc.

On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chief
Administrative Law Judge, Francis L. Young, ruled: "Marijuana, in its
natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances
known to man," and asked the Drug Enforcement Administration to
reschedule it. The DEA refused, keeping it as a Schedule I drug, which
they say "has no known medical use"! Thousands of studies have been done
all over the world, documenting the medical use of MARIJUANA (England,
Spain, Hungary, Holland, and the U.S., just to name a few). No one has
ever died from MARIJUANA in over 6,000 years of recorded history...
unless they were shot by a COP!

CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was also used for land reclamation until 1915.
CANNABIS/HEMP was planted or left to grow feral as ground cover and on
riverbanks, and not intended for harvest. It is the NUMBER ONE plant in
history used to prevent mudslides and loss of watershed, and river and
soil erosion on Earth. It has been illegal to grow this NUMBER ONE plant
in the United States since 1937.What disgusts me the most is how the
U.S. government, as well as the people, knew about

CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA and praised its value and then look what
happened! In literally 90 seconds, the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 passed
in Congress. By using the unknown name "MARIJUANA" instead of the
familiar name "CANNABIS HEMP", Congress was able to accomplish this
because no one knew what plant they were talking about. CANNABIS/HEMP
became illegal and was replaced by petrochemical products, coal and
natural gas. They made it such a banned and forbidden plant that the
words "HEMP" and "CANNABIS/HEMP" were not even taught in schools from
the 1940s, 50s and thereafter.

The role of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was erased from America's history
(as well as most of the rest of the world's) after 1945. To prove it,
think... what did you learn about CANNABIS/HEMP in grade school? High
school? College? From your parents and grandparents? Nothing! (Unless it
was from the underground press within the last 15 to 20 years.) The
continuing suppression of this information by the U.S. government places
us all in mortal jeopardy. I believe that, in order to save our planet,
we must use non-fossil fuel energy.

CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA, in conjunction with wind, solar, tidal and
hydroelectric power, could save the planet by providing all of our
energy, fuel, paper, fiber, and 10 to 20% of our medical needs,
naturally. It would also reduce acid rain and chemical pollution,
rebuild the soil, and reverse the greenhouse effect (no other plant can
do this!).

CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA was used to make over 25,000 products before it
was outlawed in 1937.

Why does the U.S. government want to eradicate this seed, out of all the
seeds on Earth? They want to kill the most perfect plant on the planet.
We must stop this insanity and demand that the laws against
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA be 100% repealed!!

Federal Attorney General John Ashcroft, Drug Enforcement Administration
head, Asa Hutchison, and White House Drug Czar, John Walters, have been
given all of these proven facts and yet are still set against the
legalization of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA and recognition of
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIUANA knowledge. For whatever personal reasons, they
refuse to believe the facts and are willing to sacrifice the future of
our planet and the health of our people by keeping it illegal.

The ban of CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is so extreme and its intention is to
hide the truth. The truth is that out of the 300,000 species, and the
millions and millions of subspecies, of plants on Earth,
CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA is the NUMBER ONE plant for our survival and
quality of life here on Earth. Since September 11, 2001, the U.S.
government and Attorney General John Ashcroft have been calling
MARIJUANA users "terrorists" and yet the government of the United States
has been "terrorizing" MARIJUANA users for the last 65 years! There have
been over 14 million arrests for CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA in the last 65
years, in the U.S. alone! 13 million were within the last 30 years!

No one has taken the $100,000 challenge to prove me wrong. Why? Because
I am right. The U.S. government has been lying to us since the early
1900s. Do economic interests and the police have more to say than the
people about the future of our planet? How angry are you for being lied
to by the U.S. government about CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA? Are you willing
to make a stand right now? No one can dispute this information and
knowledge. YOU have to join me in this fight. Either you are on the U.S.
government's side or you are on my side.

Please help me spread this everywhere. Thank you!

Jack Herer
www.jackherer.com
2/14/07










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by Jack Herer

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Big, Big Government

by John Stossel - co-anchor of ABC News' "20/20"
Jan 31, 2007

Two weeks ago, U.S. drug agents launched raids on 11 medical-marijuana
centers in Los Angeles County. The U.S. attorney's office says they
violated the laws against cultivation and distribution of marijuana.

Whatever happened to America's federal system, which recognized the
states as "laboratories of democracy"?

According to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws,
11 states (Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Montana, Nevada,
Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington) have eliminated the
penalties for physician-approved possession of marijuana by seriously
ill patients. In those states people with AIDS and other catastrophic
diseases may either grow their own marijuana or get it from registered
dispensaries.

But the U.S. government says its drug laws trump the states' laws, and
in 2005, the Supreme Court agreed.

This is not the way it was supposed to work. The constitutional plan
presented in the Federalist Papers delegated only a few powers to the
federal government, with the rest reserved to the states. The system was
hailed for its genius. Instead of having decisions made in the center --
where errors would harm the entire country -- most policies would be
determined in a decentralized environment. A mistake in California would
affect only Californians. New Yorkers, Ohioans, and others could try
something else. Everyone would learn and benefit from the various
experiments.

It made a lot of sense. It still does. Too bad the idea is being tossed
on the trash heap by big-government Republicans and their DEA goons.

Drug prohibition -- like alcohol prohibition -- is a silly idea, as the
late free-market economist Milton Friedman often pointed out. Something
doesn't go away just because the government decrees it illegal. It
simply goes underground. Then a black market creates worse problems.
Since sellers cannot rely on police to protect their property, they arm
themselves, form gangs, charge monopoly prices, and kill their
competitors. Buyers steal to pay the high prices.

Alcohol prohibition in the 1920s gave America Al Capone and organized
crime. Drug prohibition has given us South American and Asian cartels
that finance terrorism. Even the government admits that the heroin trade
bankrolls terrorists. Prohibition's exorbitant black-market prices make
that possible. In the United States, drug prohibition spawns gangs that
are sometimes better armed than the police. Drug prohibition does more
harm than drugs.

The war on drugs hasn't even accomplished what it promised to do. Drugs
are abundant and cheaper than ever. "ABC News" reported last month,
"marijuana is the U.S.'s most valuable crop. The report, 'Marijuana
Production in the United States,' by marijuana policy researcher Jon
Gettman, concludes that despite massive eradication efforts at the hands
of the federal government, 'marijuana has become a pervasive and
ineradicable part of the national economy.'"

The destructive failure of the drug war is why it makes so much sense to
let states experiment, which 11 of them have done with medical
marijuana.

Legalizing only medical marijuana brings its own problems. For one
thing, it invites state authorities to monitor the practice of medicine
to make sure doctors don't prescribe pot promiscuously.

But government officials shouldn't be the judges of what is and isn't
medicine. That should be left to medical researchers, doctors, and
patients. The effectiveness of medicine is too dependent on individual
circumstances and biochemistry. One size does not fit all, so
politicians and bureaucrats should butt out.

More fundamentally, why should only people whom the state defines as
sick be able to use marijuana? This is supposed to be a free country,
and in a free country adults should have the right to ingest whatever
they want. A drug user who harms someone else should be punished, but a
peaceful user should be left alone.

Despite my reservations about medical marijuana, the states'
experimentation is still better than a brutal federal one-size-fits-all
crackdown. There is no role here for the federal government. If the
people of a state want to experiment by loosening drug prohibition, that
should be their right. Washington should mind its own business. The feds
and rest of us should watch. We might learn something.

Mr. Stossel is co-anchor of ABC News' "20/20" and the author of "Myth,
Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel -- Why Everything You
Know is Wrong".








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Proposed Wording:

California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HEALTH AND SAFETY CODE OF CALIFORNIA:

I. Add Section 11357.5 to the Health and Safety Code of California, any
laws or policies
to the contrary notwithstanding:

1. No person, 21 years or older, shall be prosecuted, be denied any
right or privilege, nor be subject to any criminal or civil penalties
for the possession, cultivation, transportation, distribution, or
consumption of cannabis/hemp/marijuana, including:

(a) Cannabis hemp.

(b) Hemp industrial products.

(c) Hemp medicinal preparations.

(d) Hemp nutritional products.

(e) Hemp intoxicating products.

2. Definition of terms:

(a) The term "cannabis hemp" means the plant hemp, cannabis, marihuana,
marijuana, cannabis sativa L, cannabis americana, cannabis chinensis,
cannabis indica, cannabis ruderalis, cannabis sativa, or any variety of
cannabis, including any derivative, extract, flower, leaf, particle,
preparation, resin, root, salt, seed, stalk, stem, or any product
thereof.

(b) The term "hemp industrial products" means all products made from
cannabis hemp that are not designed or intended for human consumption,
including, but not limited to: clothing, housing, paper, fiber, fuel,
lubricants, plastics, paint, seed for cultivation, animal feed,
veterinary medicine, oil, or any other product that is not designed for
internal human consumption; as well as hemp plants used for crop
rotation, erosion control, pest control, weed control, or any other
horticultural or environmental purposes.

(c) The term "hemp medicinal preparations" means all products made from
cannabis hemp that are designed, intended, or used for human consumption
for the treatment of any human disease or condition, for pain relief, or
for any healing purpose, including but not limited to: the treatment or
relief of Alzheimer's and pre-Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, asthma,
cramps, epilepsy, glaucoma, immunodeficiencies, migraine, multiple
sclerosis, nausea, PMS, side effects of cancer chemotherapy,
fibromyalgia, sickle cell anemia, spasticity, spinal injury, stress,
Tourette's syndrome, wasting syndrome from AIDS or anorexia; use as an
antibiotic, antibacterial, anti-viral, or anti-emetic; as a healing
agent, or as an adjunct to any medical or herbal treatment.

(d) The term "hemp nutritional products" means cannabis hemp for human
consumption as food, including but not limited to: seed, seed protein,
seed oil, essential fatty acids, seed cake, dietary fiber, or any
preparation or extract thereof.

(e) The term "hemp intoxicating products" means cannabis hemp intended
for personal use, other than hemp industrial products, hemp medicinal
preparations, or hemp nutritional products.

(f) The term "personal use" means the internal consumption of cannabis
hemp by persons 21 years of age or older for any relaxational,
spiritual, religious, recreational, or other purposes other than sale,
that does not conflict with any statutory law not effected by this
initiative.

3. Industrial hemp farmers, manufacturers, and distributors shall not be
subject to any special zoning requirement, licensing fee, or tax that is
excessive, discriminatory, or prohibitive.

4. Hemp medicinal preparations are hereby restored to the list of
available medicines in California. Licensed physicians shall not be
penalized for, nor restricted from, prescribing or recommending cannabis
hemp for medical purposes to any patient, regardless of age. No tax
shall be applied to prescribed hemp medicinal preparations. Medical
research shall be encouraged.

5. Personal use of hemp intoxicating products.

(a) No permit, license, or tax shall be required for the non-commercial
cultivation, transportation, distribution, or consumption of cannabis
hemp.

(b) Testing for inactive and/or inert residual cannabis metabolites
shall not be required for employment or insurance, nor be considered in
determining employment.

6. Commerce in cannabis hemp intoxicating products shall be limited to
adults, 21 years and older, and shall be regulated in a manner analogous
to California's wine industry model. For the purpose of distinguishing
personal from commercial production, up to 12 pounds (192 ounces) of
dried, cured cannabis hemp flowers/bud (not leaf) produced per adult, 21
years or older, per year shall be considered as being for personal use.

7. The manufacture, marketing, distribution, or sales between adults of
equipment or accessories designed to assist in the planting,
cultivation, harvesting, curing, processing, packaging, storage,
analysis, consumption, or transportation of cannabis hemp plants,
industrial hemp products, hemp medicinal preparations, hemp nutritional
products, hemp intoxicating products, or any cannabis hemp product shall
not be prohibited.

8. No California law enforcement personnel or funds shall be used to
assist or aid and abet in the enforcement of Federal cannabis/hemp/
marijuana laws involving acts which are hereby no longer illegal in the
state of California.

II. Repeal, delete, and expunge any and all existing statutory laws that
conflict with the provisions of this initiative.

1. Enactment of this initiative shall include: immediate release from
prison, jail, parole, and probation, and clearing, expungement, and
deletion of all criminal records for all persons currently charged with,
or convicted of any cannabis hemp/marijuana offenses included in this
initiative which are hereby no longer illegal.

2. Within 60 days of the passage of this act, the Attorney General shall
develop and distribute a one-page application, providing for the
destruction of all cannabis/hemp/marijuana criminal records in
California for any such offense covered by this act. Such forms shall be
distributed to district and city attorneys and made available at all
police departments in the state to persons hereby affected. Upon filing
such form with the Attorney General and a payment of a fee of $10.00,
all pertinent records anywhere in the state of California fisted in the
form and covered by this act shall be destroyed. Such persons may
truthfully state that they have never been convicted of any
cannabis/hemp/marijuana related offense which is hereby no longer
illegal.

III. The legislature is authorized upon thorough investigation, to enact
legislation
using reasonable standards to:

1. License concessionary establishments to distribute hemp intoxicating
products in a manner analogous to California's wine industry model.
Sufficient community outlets shall be licensed to provide reasonable
commercial access to persons of legal age, so as to discourage and
prevent the misuse of and illicit traffic in such products. Any license
requirement or fee shall not be excessive, discriminatory, nor
prohibitive.

2. Place an excise tax on commercial production of hemp intoxicating
products, analogous to California's wine industry model, so long as no
excise tax or combination of excise taxes shall exceed $10.00 per ounce.

3. Determine an acceptable and uniform standard of impairment based on
performance testing, to restrict persons impaired by hemp intoxicating
products from operating a motor vehicle or heavy machinery, or otherwise
engaging in conduct that may affect public safety.

4. Regulate the personal use of hemp intoxicating products in enclosed
and/or restricted public places.

IV. Pursuant to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments to the Constitution of
the United States, the people of California hereby repudiate and
challenge Federal cannabis/hemp/marijuana prohibitions that conflict
with this act.

V. Severability: If any provision of this act, or the application of any
such provision to any person or circumstance, shall be held invalid by
any court, the remainder of this act, to the extent it can be given
effect, or the application of such provisions to persons or
circumstances other than those as to which it is held invalid, shall not
be affected thereby, and to this end the provisions of this act are
severable.

VI. Construction: If any rival or conflicting initiative regulating any
matter addressed by this act receives the higher affirmative vote, then
all non-conflicting parts shall become operative.

VII. Purpose of Act: This act is an exercise of the police powers of the
state for the protection of the safety, welfare, health, and peace of
the people and the environment of the state, to protect the industrial
and medicinal uses of cannabis hemp, to eliminate the unlicensed and
unlawful cultivation, selling, and dispensing of cannabis hemp; and to
encourage temperance in the consumption of hemp intoxicating products.
It is hereby declared that the subject matter of this act involves, in
the highest degree, the ecological, economic, social, and moral
well-being and safety of the State and of all its people. All provisions
of this act shall be liberally construed for the accomplishment of these
purposes: to respect human rights, to promote tolerance, and to end
cannabis hemp prohibition.











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I'm 120 but my joints are OK

December 04, 2006


A GREAT-great granny reveals how she has lived to be 120 ... by smoking
CANNABIS every day.

Fulla Nayak – believed to be the world’s oldest woman – puffs “ganja”
cigars and drinks strong palm wine in her cow-dung hut in India.

She lives with her 92-year-old daughter and grandson, 72, by the Indian
Ocean.

Fulla said: “I don’t know how I’ve survived so long. Many relatives much
younger than me have died.”

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My Mother and Alzheimer’s. And cancer.

Around 1983, when my mother was 75 years old, she was in the first
stages of Alzheimer’s disease. She came out to California from Miami
Beach for six weeks to visit my children and me. My son, Barry went into
the airport to get her, while I waited in the car. Although she had just
seen him the year before, she didn’t recognize him and thought he was
trying to pick her up. My older sister, Marlene, explained to me that
was a symptom of the disease.

At that time, I was just beginning to write a book called “The Emperor
Wears No Clothes” about the history of hemp, including the medical
history of cannabis. I had read many reports about diseases being
treated with cannabis, including the first reports on Alzheimer’s
disease and dementia. One report said that if you smoke marijuana
morning, noon and night you won’t have a problem with Alzheimer’s. It
won’t go away but it won’t progress and may even go backwards a little
bit.

My mother didn’t smoke except for maybe 10 tobacco cigarettes a year.
When she came to California I gave her marijuana morning, noon and
night. She smoked it and ate it. She had never tried it before.

Prior to this, I was never able to really talk to my mother. Our
conversations always consisted of her telling me to “don’t do this” or
“don’t do that.” Now, for the first time, I was able to talk to my
mother about everything including politics, family and about when she
first came to the U.S. from Poland 60 years before. It was the most
wonderful time in my whole life being able to talk with my mother like
that. My only regret was that I didn’t give it to her when she was 45 or
55.

After six weeks she had no symptoms of Alzheimer’s whatsoever. Then it
was time for her to go back to Miami Beach to my stepfather. I sent her
back with about 60 joints. I was planning on sending her 60 already
rolled joints a month.

When she got home she showed her husband what she was doing and he had a
fit about her smoking so she quit. He said “You can’t smoke marijuana. I
don’t care if you think it’s good for you or not. It’s against the law.”
They threw away the 60 joints.

Two years later my mother got so bad she was put into a hospital. One
year later she didn’t recognize me or my children at all. She died in
1990. The last 4 years she didn’t recognize me at all when I came to
visit.

When I wrote the first edition (106 pages) of my book, I wrote that
Alzheimer’s disease is best treated by using marijuana morning, noon,
and night (not once in a while). Everyone thought I was crazy, including
my brother and sister.

I have kept up on all the information about marijuana for the last 30
years. I’ve known about the preliminary studies for Alzheimer’s since
the early ‘80s.

Two weeks ago it was reported on CNN and newspapers throughout the world
that using marijuana is the best treatment for Alzheimer’s. If you use
marijuana morning, noon and night it won’t progress. You may even get
better. If you start using it when you’re 20 or 30 or 40, your chances
are high you will not get Alzheimer’s. Cannabis has been proven to be
many times more effective than the drugs currently being used to treat
it. But marijuana is illegal in most places.

Thirty percent of all medicines used 100 to 200 years ago were made out
of compounds of natural marijuana. In 1964, researchers discovered the
main ingredient is THC. No one has ever died from using marijuana.

In 1974, Virginia Medical College in Richmond, Virginia did research on
tumors of the lung, brain, liver and kidney using mice and rats.
Incredible things were done. The cancer stopped growing and in most
cases even reversed itself 100 percent. Some of the mice who were given
cancer and treated with cannabis actually lived longer than some of the
control mice who were not even given cancer! It was found that marijuana
is the best thing to treat cancer of the lungs, brain, etc. After that
they were stopped from doing anymore research at all by first Nixon and
then Ford. No research with positive results could be done, only
research with negative results. That’s the way it’s been since 1975
until now, even though a 1999 marijuana study turned out to be positive
also.

You live almost two years longer if you smoke marijuana morning, noon
and night. This was the result of the most extensive research ever done
(from 1968 to 1974). It was a $6,000,000 study done by Dr. Vera Ruben in
Jamaica and Costa Rica. Today that same research would cost
$150,000,000. If you smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol, you will lose
approximately 8-24 years off your life. If you don’t smoke cigarettes or
drink alcohol you will live (in the U.S.) until about 76 for a man and
78 for a woman. But if you smoke marijuana and don’t smoke cigarettes or
drink alcohol, you live about two years longer than that.

When this study came out in 1974, Nixon and then Ford dropped the most
expensive research ever done on anything whatsoever. No more research of
any type could be done on marijuana to prove the positive effects, only
negative effects. From 1984 until now.

Read my book “The Emperor Wears No Clothes” and get mad. The chapters
are online free on this website.

The reason I am writing this is because my friend, Ed Rosenthal, is on
trial for marijuana. He was convicted in federal court two years ago and
was sentenced to one day in prison by a federal judge. Ed fought this
one day conviction and now the federal government is indicting him
again. Ed and others in the hemp movement are the real American heroes
and our government leaders are the real criminals.

Please get this information out to everyone you know.

Thank you.

Jack Herer





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it.
Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can
exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their
revolutionary
right to dismember or overthrow it.”

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First Inaugural Address






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Why You Should Smoke More Pot

The average lifespan in the United States is 76 for a man and 78 for a
woman. But if you smoke pot morning, noon and night, you will live an
average of two years longer than if you don’t. People who smoke pot but
don’t smoke cigarettes or drink alcohol will live approximately 8 to 24
years longer than those who do smoke cigarettes and drink alcohol. This
was proven in studies done by Dr. Vera Ruben on Rastafarians in Jamaica
from 1968 to 1974. The Rastafarians lived up in the hills and were the
poorest people in Jamaica. Everyone expected them to have the shortest
lives but instead they had the longest lives. They smoked pot morning,
noon and night. This study cost $6,000,000.00 and was an extremely
comprehensive study. If the same study was done today it would cost
approximately $125,000,000.00.

In 1979 and 1980, the National Institute of Science did studies on
Rastafarians in Costa Rica that proved the same results. There were only
100 copies of this study released to researchers who were working for
the government. The only reason we have the results of this study is
because someone managed to leak a copy to NORML in 1981.

Between 1968 and 1975, there were about 10,000 marijuana studies done
all over the world, but mostly in American universities and colleges.
Approximately 4,000 of the studies were universal health studies. Almost
all of them proved marijuana to be beneficial in every way. The few that
were unfavorable were never proven by a second study.

In 1974 and 1975, Dr. Donald Tashkin did research to prove marijuana was
harmful to the lungs. He was the head of pulmonary research on marijuana
at UCLA Hospital. He predicted that more people would develop lung
cancer from smoking marijuana than from smoking tobacco. Dr. Tashkin was
100 percent positive that all of the studies about marijuana would come
out negative in his lung research. He had the only study in the whole
country from 1975 to 1999. After 1975 there was no more funding for
positive marijuana studies of any type by the U.S. Government for any
reason whatsoever. Only a negative study could get funding from the U.S.
Government and Dr. Tashkin had almost all of it. I came out against Dr.
Tashkin in 1979.

In 1981, I was approached by Dr. Tashkin to take part in his study. I
was protesting the marijuana laws on the front lawn of the Federal
Building, 500 yards away from the UCLA Hospital and University on
Wilshire Boulevard. I signed up (along with about 50 other pot
protesters) for Dr. Tashkin’s study because all of the UCLA students
refused to participate in his study after Ronald Reagan took office in
January 1981. Dr. Tashkin saw us pot protesters every day at the Federal
Building for 102 days. We weren’t college students and we smoked pot
morning, noon and night.

Once or twice a year I would have interviews with Dr. Tashkin. I told
him about the positive effects of marijuana. We disagreed 100 percent
and he was sure I was wrong. This was a long term study. I was paid
$80.00 to $90.00 for each test from 1981 to the mid 1990s. Once or twice
a year I would go smoke marijuana to get the pulmonary lung studies done
and I would interview Dr. Tashkin as part of my research for my book,
“The Emperor Wears No Clothes". I told Dr. Tashkin from 1981 to 1997
that no one gets lung cancer or any other type of cancer from marijuana
because Dr. Vera Ruben and Dr. Todd Mikuriya had already each separately
proven it. I had been doing research for my book since the early 1970s.

Now Dr. Tashkin has come out and is saying the same things I said to him
25 years ago. There is no link between marijuana and lung cancer or any
other type of cancer. In fact, Dr. Tashkin has found that marijuana, by
killing off old cells that could become cancerous, can actually prevent
cancer.

If you want to live longer, smoke more pot.

Jack Herer
July 4, 2006






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shadow..no offense..but I dont think anyone is reading extended
cut & paste thingies...really....

pot is like any drug..alcohol...heroin..coke...if you overindulge its a
problem...if youre marginally mentally ill at the start you will be
moreso after using...so it really depends on the person...

have always thought alcohol is by far a more dangerous drug than
pot...

breathing ANY smoke into your lungs is very harmful to your health so to
say it isn't is plain grade A Bull****. Ingesting is another story.

I totally agree these cut/copy and paste posts especially from
unreliable resoures is nothing but a waste of time and web space.

resources

Well now! just go roll ya a big ol bob marley hog leg!
Never enjoyed it but I do strongly believe it to be much safer than say
your alcohol induced driver out there murdering families when they get
behind the wheel of their car. If you indulge thats your business and
like armydoc please stay home and off the roads. My most humble
ohhhpinion of course!

I read it...

Long post.

very informative.

The problem with puting out myths to back federal policy is eventually
someone somewhere will put out facts backed by empirical data.

And the problem with states using the consitutional rights to manage
their own affairs in the area of marijuanna is that the feds will cut
them off from highway funds. That is why some states don't follow suit.

Amen on the cut and paste. As far as pot is concerned, and all drugs
for that matter, we have spent billions of dollars in the war on drugs
and we stop less than 10% of what comes into this country. Time to
victory and legalize them. Prohibition does not work all it does is
make a bunch of crooks rich. As long as there is a market for them they
will be brought into the country. Might just as well make them legal
and tax them like everything else.

Yeah, a nice alternative to the cut and paste are some links, and maybe
a three sentence summary about that link. I'm as long-winded as anybody
else on this forum, but even I didn't want to read all that.

Not to say I disagree, well mostly. Legalization-no.
Decriminalization-yes.

The thing of it is, the laws are too lenient on tobacco and alcohol
products, and too strict on 'ol MJ. While it isn't physically addictive
(although yes, you can still have physical withdrawal from a
non-physical addiction), smoking pot is something is something that
should only be done when you are bored and know you aren't going
anywhere.

And even then you should be reading or doing something
constructive .

All things in moderation.

Including doing constructive things.

Sometimes you just gota let er rip.