Ma'am ooooh how sweet

you are hilarious...

I don't know what you mean

some people say i have blonde roots

if i gave you my number ~ would you call me?

It's not gonna be one of those fake "your a loser-I wouldn't date you" numbers?

I don't see a specific topic to follow here so maybe I'll start one. I had the occasion the other day to discuss marijuana laws with an aquaintance. His arguement was that using pot was supporting terrorist because the funds from buying it would eventually end up in in the hands of high level drug lords who have every reason to subvert or overthrow our country and threaten our troops.
I said "his arguement" because in effect, I ended up argueing that our gorvernment chooses this because it's blind to the fact that it can't legislate morality., free the weed , I say... why not ?

hell no....i am a big girl

and i certainly don't play games

I was kidding hun

hello there Allen


It is crazy ...i think the US federales
have their heads up their butt
when it comes to a lot of things
and also the legalization of herbage

in other 4:20 threads..
.i have asked people
to read the book

" the emperor wears no clothes"
by jack herer

<www.jackherer.com>

to understand why hemp became illegal
in the first place
and how hemp was used in world war II in many uses
on board the USS Constitution and other ships too
>>> all the boats rigging ,flags,
maps, uniforms, decking, ropes, log books ,
you name it ~ were all made of hemp

The Emperor Wears No Clothes - by Jack Herer


This is the book that started the hemp revolution. More than 600,000 copies have been sold to date. The print version of The Emperor Wears No Clothes is available in Jack's Hemporium. Jack wants this information to be available to everyone, so he has published the text of the book here on the internet for free. This is only half of what is actually in the book. If you want all the source material and graphics, please buy a copy of the book.
By selling his books, tapes, c.d.s, and movies, Jack has been able to help support the hemp movement for the last 20 years.

The Emperor Wears No Clothes By Jack Herer

Chapter One

Overview of the History of Cannabis Hemp

For the Purpose of Clarity in this Book:

Explanations or documentations marked with an asterisk (*) are listed at the end of the related paragraph(s). For brevity, other sources for facts, anecdotes, histories, studies, etc., are cited in the body of the text. Numbered footnotes are at the end of each chapter. Reproductions of selected critical source materials are incorporated into the body of the text or included in the appendices.



The facts cited herein are generally verifiable in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, which was printed primarily on paper produced with cannabis hemp for over 150 years. However, any encyclopedia (no matter how old) or good dictionary will do for general verification purposes.



Cannabis Sativa L.



Also known as: Hemp, cannabis hemp, Indian (India) hemp, true hemp, muggles, weed, pot, spinach, marijuana, reefer, grass, ganja, bhang, the kind, dagga, herb, etc., all names for exactly the same plant!



What’s in a Name?

(U.S. Geography)



HEMPstead, Long Island; HEMPstead County, Arkansas; HEMPstead, Texas; HEMPhill, North Carolina, HEMPfield, Pennsylvania, among others, were named after cannabis growing regions, or after family names derived from hemp growing.



AMERICAN HISTORICAL NOTES



In 1619, America’s first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia, “ordering” all farmers to “make tryal of “(grow) Indian hempseed. More mandatory (must-grow) hemp cultivation laws were enacted in Massachusetts in 1631, in Connecticut in 1632 and in the Chesapeake Colonies into the mid-1700s.



Even in England, the much-sought-after prize of full British citizenship was bestowed by a decree of the crown on foreigners who would grow cannabis, and fines were often levied against those who refused.



Cannabis hemp was legal tender (money) in most of the Americas from 1631 until the early 1800s. Why? To encourage American farmers to grow more.1



You could pay your taxes with cannabis hemp throughout America for over 200 years.2



You could even be jailed in America for not growing cannabis during several periods of shortage, e.g., in Virginia between 1763 and 1767.



(Herndon, G.M., Hemp in Colonial Virginia, 1963; The Chesapeake Colonies, 1954; L.A. Times, August 12, 1981; et al.)



George Washington and Thomas Jefferson grew cannabis on their plantations. Jefferson,3 while envoy to France, went to great expense, and even considerable risk to himself and his secret agents, to procure particularly good hempseeds smuggled illegally into Turkey from China. The Chinese Mandarins (political rulers) so valued their hemp seed that they made its exportation a capital offense.



The Chinese character “Ma” was the earliest name for hemp. By the 10th century, A.D., Ma had become the generic term for fibers of all kinds, including jute and ramie. By then, the word for hemp had become “Tai-ma” or “Dai-ma” meaning “great hemp.”



The United States Census of 1850 counted 8,327 hemp “plantations”* (minimum 2,000-acre farms) growing cannabis hemp for cloth, canvas and even the cordage used for baling cotton. Most of these plantations were located in the South or in the Border States, primarily because of the cheap slave labor available prior to 1865 for the labor-intensive hemp industry.



(U.S. Census, 1850; Allen, James Lane, The Reign of Law, A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields, MacMillan Co., NY, 1900; Roffman, Roger. Ph.D., Marijuana as Medicine, Mendrone Books, WA, 1982.)



*This figure does not include the tens of thousands of smaller farms growing cannabis, nor the hundreds of thousands if not millions of family hemp patches in America; nor does it take into account that well into this century 80% of America’s hemp consumption for 200 years still had to be imported from Russia, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland, etc..



Benjamin Franklin started one of America’s first paper mills with cannabis. This allowed America to have a free colonial press without having to beg or justify the need for paper and books from England.



In addition, various marijuana and hashish extracts were the first, second or third most-prescribed medicines in the United States from 1842 until the 1890s. Its medicinal use continued legally through the 1930s for humans and figured even more prominently in American and world veterinary medicines during this time.



Cannabis extract medicines were produced by Eli Lilly, Parke-Davis, Tildens, Brothers Smith (Smith Brothers), Squibb and many other American and European companies and apothecaries. During all this time there was not one reported death from cannabis extract medicines, and virtually no abuse or mental disorders reported, except for first-time or novice-users occasionally becoming disoriented or overly introverted.



(Mikuriya, Tod, M.D., Marijuana Medical Papers, Medi-Comp Press, CA, 1973; Cohen, Sidney & Stillman, Richard, Therapeutic Potential of Marijuana, Plenum Press, NY, 1976.)



WORLD HISTORICAL NOTES



“The earliest known woven fabric was apparently of hemp, which began to be worked in the eighth millennium (8,000-7,000 B.C.).” (The Columbia History of the World, 1981, page 54.)



The body of literature (i.e., archaeology, anthropology, philology, economy, history) pertaining to hemp is in general agreement that, at the very least:



From more than 1,000 years before the time of Christ until 1883 A.D., cannabis hemp, indeed, marijuana was our planet’s largest agricultural crop and most important industry, involving thousands of products and enterprises; producing the overall majority of Earth’s fiber, fabric, lighting oil, paper, incense and medicines. In addition, it was a primary source of essential food oil and protein for humans and animals.



According to virtually every anthropologist and university in the world, marijuana was also used in most of our religions and cults as one of the seven or so most widely used mood-, mind-or pain-altering drugs when taken as psychotropic, psychedelic (mind-manifesting or -expanding) sacraments.



Almost without exception, these sacred (drug) experiences inspired our superstitions, amulets, talismans, religions, prayers, and language codes. (See Chapter10 on “Religions and Magic.”)



(Wasson, R. Gordon, Soma, Divine Mushroom of Immortality; Allegro, J.M., Sacred Mushroom & the Cross, Doubleday, NY, 1969; Pliny; Josephus; Herodotus; Dead Sea Scrolls; Gnostic Gospels; the Bible; Ginsberg Legends Kaballah, c. 1860; Paracelsus; British Museum; Budge; Ency. Britannica, “Pharmacological Cults;” Schultes & Wasson, Plants of the Gods; Research of: R.E. Schultes, Harvard Botanical Dept.; Wm. EmBoden, Cal State U., Northridge; et al.)



GREAT WARS WERE FOUGHT TO ENSURE THE AVAILABILITY OF HEMP



For example, the primary reason for the War of 1812 (fought by America against Great Britain) was access to Russian cannabis hemp. Russian hemp was also the principal reason that Napoleon (our 1812 ally) and his “Continental Systems” allies invaded Russia in 1812. (See Chapter 12, “The (Hemp) War of 1812 and Napoleon Invades Russia.”)



In 1942, after the Japanese invasion of the Philippines cut off the supply of Manila (Abaca) hemp, the U.S. government distributed 400,000 pounds of cannabis seeds to American farmers from Wisconsin to Kentucky, who produced 42,000 tons of hemp fiber annually until 1946 when the war ended.



WHY HAS CANNABIS HEMP/MARIJUANA BEEN SO IMPORTANT IN HISTORY?



Because cannabis hemp is, overall, the strongest, most-durable, longest-lasting natural soft-fiber on the planet. Its leaves and flower tops (marijuana) were, depending on the culture, the first, second or third most-important and most-used medicines for two-thirds of the world’s people for at least 3,000 years, until the turn of the 20th century.



Botanically, hemp is a member of the most advanced plant family on Earth. It is a dioecious (having male, female and sometimes hermaphroditic, male and female on same plant), woody, herbaceous annual that uses the sun more efficiently than virtually any other plant on our planet, reaching a robust 12 to 20 feet or more in one short growing season. It can be grown in virtually any climate or soil condition on Earth, even marginal ones.



Hemp is, by far, Earth’s premier, renewable natural resource. This is why hemp is so very important.



Footnotes:



1. Clark, V.S., History of Manufacture in the United States, McGraw Hill, NY 1929, Pg. 34.


2. Ibid.


3. Diaries of George Washington; Writings of George Washington, Letter to Dr. James Anderson, May 26, 1794, vol. 33, p. 433, (U.S. govt.
pub., 1931); Letters to his caretaker, William Pearce, 1795 & 1796;
Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson’s Farm Books; Abel, Ernest, Marijuana: The First 12,000 Years, Plenum Press, NY, 1980; Dr. Michael Aldrich, et al.

Oh my, my fashionable lateness finds me alone here, but maybe that's a good thing, it looks like it was waaayyy too educational in here for me today!!

Hope you all have a wonderful Monday and catch you all soon!

hi there Kris...are you still around...
too much education for you today ?
it is very interesting to know , though

did you get the message
i left introducing you to Ed from Ohio ?
he stopped by today <upon my request>
on the thread here , to meet you

HI Vanessa, yeah was just out reading around.
Yes, I saw Ed was here, thank you - you are such a sweetie!
And thank you for the friend invite!

How's life there?

oh...i am sorry Kris...

i got hung up ...
nine hours later...
here i am getting back to you


this is a busy day for me...
i hope to not be online as much today

sure....

so i can get stuff done ~

but that is what i said yesterday
& the day before

A wonderful addition here...

Thank you Rapunzel for the warm welcome...

Let us not only partake of the plant but also live out the culture...

Ha, I've been saying that for a year and it hasn't happened yet...and something tells me that today isn't going to be the day either. Ah well, back to the couch.

Good Afternon (( Kris ))

Good Afternoon (( Vanessa ))

How are you both this fine chilly day ?

Hi Rapunzel & thanks for the welcome.

any Weeds fans out there ? if so, any guesses on the plotline for the next season ? is it over for Agrestic ?

i have no clue...

Hey folks .....this is a heads up...



if i disappear from here


the <<< only >>>

reason that it would be at this time


would be by getting banned or suspended

and ....


it is only for sticking up for righteousness

i would rather leave the "barnyard"

in a (((( mighty blaze of fire ))))

and you can quote me on this



as <<<< Phoenix rising from the ashes of death >>>>



as a " Mighty White Eagle"


flying high overhead


than to sit around


henpecking like a bunch of chickens


read the thread....


" oc's creepy place"


that got locked


<<<< starting on page 19 >>>>


i stuck up for righteousness in there

and couldn't handle the mob mentality

oh...hi there ...


i missed you earlier ...so sorry


<<<<< mr..4:20 >>>>>


welcome sweetie...

you make yourself at home here


whether i am here or not...