Qui Tacet Consentit
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He who is silent gives consent
Hemp for Victory Replace Petroleum Cannabis Sativa=Useful Plant
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George Washington
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illegality of marijuana rests less on what it is than what it
represents: nature, dissent, introspection. It's not marijuana the
mildly psychotropic weed we condemn, -- Ronald Reagan Jr., TV commentator
Hempseed contains 30% (by volume) oil. This oil has been used to make high-grade diesel fuel and aircraft engine and precision machine oil.
Thomas Jefferson, 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 seeds that they made their exportation a capital offense. - Jack Herer, "The Emperor Wears No Clothes
The hemp plant is botanically quite advanced; some plants are male, With all the problems in this country, what could the promise of We'd be healthier...because the consumption of hemp oil products. Consider what police could do if they concentrated on real crimes? Happier The Many Uses of Hemp
Fine Hemp Products I do have to add a Hempenol verse, now don't I. "Keep The Mercedes" I'd like to sing a song, of social and political import... Oh Lord, won't you buy me a legalized joint! Oh Lord, won't you help them get medical use, Lord. Will you help us free brave men like Joe, And Lord, when will they learn the Drug War's a lie? Thank You, Thank You Very Much
Oops. After Congressed debated for a minute and a half and lynched Can-Hem-Mar in 1938, World War two brought the need to produce Hemp for the War effort. That Hemp showed resilience and survives to this day as the famous ditch weed of the Midwest. The title shot of is above
"Hemp for Victory" .
A strong durable fiber for warm clothing, Washington's troops would not have survived the Valley Forge without it. After criminalization many immigrants were found to have hemp gardens from which they made clothes, in fact, the oldest known human artifact is a piece of hemp cloth found to date back more than 6,000 years
Historically China, Romania and France have refused to cave in to Reefer Madness and so have constantly grown Hemp. Ten years ago 18 country's grew and today 38 nations produce Hemp products.
On the east coast hemp based linoleum floors can still be found, there are even It really made my century when Dr. Bronners put hemp in it's immortal The most valuable of our crops, in quantity and value. -- Kentucky hemp farmer, 1856 "There
is no record that the pilgrims brought marijuana with them to Plymouth,
but the Jamestown settlers did bring the plant to Virginia in 1611, and cultivated it for its fiber. Marijuana was introduced into New England in 1629. From then until after the Civil
War, the marijuana plant was a major crop in North America, and played
an important role in both colonial and national economic policy. In
1762, ‘Virginia awarded bounties for hemp culture and manufacture, and
imposed penalties upon those who did not produce it." --The Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs
We must also staisfy the canary bird seed trade, and the Sherwin Williams Paint Company, which uses hemp seed oil for drying purposes. We are now working with the Department of Commerce in finding substitutes for the legitimate trade, and after that is accomplished, the path will be cleared for the treaties and for federal law. -- Harry Anslinger, memo to staff discussing cannabis prohibition, 1936
The more I look into the detailed history of hemp in this country, the more I realize the basic question again boils down to destroying the economic base of all indigenous, good people in the world -- John Splitting-the-sky Hill, 1991
The best hemp and the best tobacco grow on the same kind of soil. The former article is of first necessity to the commerce and marine, in other words to the wealth and protection of the country. The latter, never useful and sometimes pernicious, derives its estimation from caprice. -- Thomas Jefferson, journal, March 16, 1791 |