Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Marijuana, Hemp
Hemp is the non-drug variety of the plant Cannabis sativa L. It can grow to a height of one to five meters in around 120 days. Like marijuana, it can be grown in all 50 states without need for pesticides or herbicides. It is cultivated in over 30 countries but not the USA, though the US constitution was written on it.
Hemp is known as the most versatile crop. Thomas Jefferson urged farmers to grow hemp instead of tobacco. George Washington had the largest hemp farm in the world. At one time you could pay your taxes with hemp as it was considered legal tender.
Henry J. Anslinger (head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics), Lammont DuPont (owner of the largest chemical company), and William Randolph Hearst (owner of the largest newspaper company), saw fit to make it illegal to grow hemp. There was a change in processes, and paper started being made from trees more and more, eventually becoming the dominant source for paper. In addition to owning the largest chain of newspapers, Hearst also owned all the trees used to make them. New machinery was being designed to process hemp that would make it cheaper, and this threatened Hearst's business. Lammont DuPont patented the process for fabricating synthetic nylon from oil and coal as well as a new improved sulfate process to make paper from wood pulp. DuPont was also threatened with competition against safe, healthy, hemp products that didn't harm the environment.
Hearst was a racist and used his publications to raise negative publicity for marijuana tying it into hit pieces on Mexicans and African-Americans playing off the wide spread racism of the time.
Andrew Mellon, DuPont's banker was Secretary of the Treasury for Herbert Hoover. Andrew's nephew-in-law Henry Anslinger got the Marijuana Tax Law of 1937 passed. Here's what he had to say about Hemp's legality: "They can continue to raise hemp just as they have always done it. It makes very fine cordage and this legislation exempts the mature stalk when it is grown for hemp purposes." Because hemp looks like marijuana, all Cannabis family was made illegal.
After Japan cut off supplies for raw fibers during WWII, Hemp made it's way back for a short lived stint. Hemp For Victory was released by the US Department of Agriculture, a video urging all farmers to grow hemp as part of the war effort.
Roland A. Duby showed me this article from a 1998 Cannabis Culture magazine:
Pot goes to the dogs
I am from Yellowknife, and I once had the experience of running a dog team and caring for about 50 dogs. We often had the odd litter that developed a disease called Parvo. Parvo dehydrates the animal until it finally dies.
I had never seen a puppy with Parvo survive, until one day I had an idea. I would often smoke pot while feeding the animals, and I figured that these puppies needed something that would make them come down with a serious case of munchies.
So I got half of the pups from a litter that all had this disease. We got the pups high and it worked; they ate. So every day we would get them high until they were eating on their own. They lived, but only the half of the litter that we got high.
I just thought I should pass on what I learned to other animal lovers.
Always Wondering,
Steve L, Yellowknife, Northwest Territory
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Old archival footage of Ford’s 1941 hemp car. I got a recent brochure from Ford and in the eco-friendly section it says they are using hemp again. Didn’t say which models or what exact parts would be hemp but hey, there’s hope yet.
The Union: the business behind getting high
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
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Many police officers are asking the question: if prohibition didn't work for alcohol, why are we in denial about it working for other things? LEAP is a major initiative now, and gaining steam. Check out www.leap.cc for more.
Filmed and narrated by Mike Gray
Produced by Common Sense for Drug Policy
Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:50 am
imamonstertruck
Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 532 Location: Louisville KY
I used to be a lurker and I see no reason why I shouldn't join. I really enjoy the forum's diverse topics and it's extensive health related issues. My home forums are pilots for 911 truth and gnosticmedia.com. I believe I saw madthumbs a couple of times on david icke's forum and I have recently been linked back here a couple of times. I can't believe you did all this, and look how it has grown! kudos madthumbs.
Without further ado, here is a project I came across from Richard Grove, entitled the War Against Us All.
(fast forward to 47 minutes or so to get to the hemp/marijuana talk)
It is largely on the drug war, but it focuses solely on hemp and marijuana. It is an incredible video, check it out.
Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:41 pm
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
“Medical Marijuana” Takes On New Meaning for Metastatic Brea
“Medical Marijuana” Takes On New Meaning for Metastatic Breast Cancer
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Now, doctors at the California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute in San Francisco have released a study, in the current issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics, that may in the future open the door to a much more critical use of marijuana: stopping the spread of metastatic breast cancer. It seems that a compound found in cannabis (the scientific name for marijuana), CBD, has been shown (in the lab) to stop the human gene Id-1 from directing cancer cells to multiply and spread.
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
The DEA's War Against Native America
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The Lakota 'Indian' Nation's battle for Industrial Hemp in the U.S. PBS documentary about DEA tyranny of the Lakota Nation's attempts to feed their people by growing earth-friendly non-drug industrial hemp.
Tue Jan 01, 2008 12:33 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Our planet is home to millions of species of animal and plants with their own habitat, and each plays a unique role in the perfect design of nature. Unfortunately many species of plants and animals are victim of uncontrolled human development. Cannabis, one of the most ancient plants known to man, used in every civilization all over the world for medicinal and recreational purposes, is facing a very real threath of extinction. Besides the threath posed by human development, one of the goals of the United Nations, published years ago in official reports, was to wipe out the cannabis plant from the face of the earth by the year 2010. In reality this is far from being achieved, because man keeps using the cannabis plant for religious, medicinal and recreational purposes no matter what the law says. Most cultures cannot comprehend how a plant can be made illegal. In most people's perception, plants and animals stand above a status of legality or illegality, they just exist in a higher design of nature that goes beyond human laws and regulations. Nevertheless most governments of cannabis-producing countries are implementing drastic measures to destroy crops. Dangerous chemicals are sprayed over fields and over the farmers themselves in most of the third world countries, and the poorest people of the planet are the ones paying the highest price for cultivating a plant that does not kill. But in the economy of scale, where demand dictates supply, the poorest people of the planet have no choice but to cultivate cannabis as a cash crop to feed their children and send them to school. Communities that are isolated in remotes areas in the poorest regions of the planet are often the keepers of very special landraces.
The worldwide prosecution on the cannabis plant generates the need to go hunting for the real landraces that are left in the most remote corners of the planet.
These strains, isolated for decades and sometimes for centuries, costantly inbreeding, are at the origin of all the thousands of variations that we know today in the cannabis industry. In these landraces there are hundreds, maybe thousands of unique cannabinoid profiles that have never been evaluated by the pharmaceutical industry; nevertheless they could be of enormous help in the future, when the knowledge about the medicinal properties of the cannabis plant will advance further. One of these cannabinoid profiles could be hiding the next miracle drug for the treatment of very serious diseases. The concept of strain hunters stems from the need to preserve nature's gifts to man, in a quest for a better future.
Being a strain hunter is a personal challenge, a passion, and a way of life. Strain hunting is a very delicate task, one that involves social skills, a travelling-oriented mindframe and a pinch of crazy. Besides being physically fit, the strain hunter has to speak several languages, be able to blend and socialize in different environments, and has to be willing to commit to a lifestyle on the fast-lane. From the jungles of Africa and Asia to the mountain ranges of South America, the strain hunters are on a mission to bring back the most important and isolated cannabis landraces known to man. The logistical challenges involved in strain-hunting are quite considerable, but Arjan, owner and founder of the Green House empire, has been devoting a great deal passion, time and resources to this task. After two decades spent strain hunting for the breeding programs of the Green House Seed Company, it is now time to show the world what the hunt is all about. Strain Hunters is a brand new series of documentaries, real-life reports of the search for the greatest lost cannabis strains, a deep insight in the typical "day at the office" of the most successful seed makers in the world.
Fri May 30, 2008 5:43 am
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
LowLife Seeds
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Here at LowLife seeds we are comitted to developing the very best automatic flowering hybrids. Being smokers as well as growers, we are not satisfied unless we get the autoflowering variety in question absolutely perfect. We are a relatively new breeder and as such don't have the back catalogue that other breeders might but what we have is real quality. Some of our strains include Automatic AK47, Automatic Hindu Kush, Automatic Lemon Skunk, Automatic Blueberry, Automatic White Russian & Automatic White Rhino.
April 4, 2008 - Before speaking to the 5th Clinical Conference on Cannabis Therapeutics in Pacific Grove, CA, Deputy Director of NORML Paul Armentano talks about new science on Cannabis (marijuana) and the Endo-Cannabinoid system being done in Europe, while American cancer patients, many with tragic cases of Glioma brain tumors, seek any news of an alternative therapy.
Paul references the work of Dr. Manuel Guzman, Madrid, who has seen THC kill brain cancer cells while leaving surrounding tissue unharmed, demonstating the neuroprotectant properties of Cannabinoids.
Then Paul is joined by Dr. David Bearman, of Galeta, CA, who tells of the fear that patients feel when encountering an cancer like Glioma.
Paul has collected the latest research on medical Cannabis, available in a PDF or booklet at:
http://norml.org
We also talk about Cannabis in the treatment of ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) and the documentary I'm doing on Cathy Jordan, a medical marijuana patient who has survived ALS for 22 years now!
View "Surviving ALS" in chapter releases:
http://YouTube.com/SurvivingALS
Cannabis Therapeutics Conference hosted by Patients Out of Time:
http://MedicalCannabis.com
Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:31 am
JazzRoc
Joined: 16 Jun 2008 Posts: 37 Location: El Medano, Tenerife, Spain
Hell, it's been forty years now. The old body isn't quite what it was, but most of THAT damage was done by twenty-five years in front of drawing boards and television monitors.
Pardon me while I go off to puff downwind from the missus....
Sun Aug 03, 2008 4:48 pm
madthumbs
Joined: 22 Feb 2006 Posts: 8599 Location: Fingerlakes - NY usa
Grow Marijuana with only 1/2 the electrical power usage of H
Grow Marijuana with only 1/2 the electrical power usage of HPS.
