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Marijuana Gains Wonder Drug Status
Research: Marijuana Gains Wonder Drug Status
Medical Marijuanabraindead writes:
" By Lester Grinspoon, Boston Globe.
A new study reveals that pot relieves pain that narcotics like morphine and OxyContin have hardly any effect on, and could help ease suffering from illnesses such as multiple sclerosis and diabetes.
A new study in the journal Neurology is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine. It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine -- and US drug policy -- that we still need "proof" of something that medicine has known for 5,000 years.
The study, from the University of California at San Francisco, found smoked marijuana to be effective at relieving the extreme pain of a debilitating condition known as peripheral neuropathy. It was a study of HIV patients, but a similar type of pain caused by damage to nerves afflicts people with many other illnesses including diabetes and multiple sclerosis. Neuropathic pain is notoriously resistant to treatment with conventional pain drugs. Even powerful and addictive narcotics like morphine and OxyContin often provide little relief. This study leaves no doubt that marijuana can safely ease this type of pain.
As all marijuana research in the United States must be, the new study was conducted with government-supplied marijuana of notoriously poor quality. So it probably underestimated the potential benefit.
This is all good news, but it should not be news at all. In the 40-odd years I have been studying the medicinal uses of marijuana, I have learned that the recorded history of this medicine goes back to ancient times and that in the 19th century it became a well-established Western medicine whose versatility and safety were unquestioned. From 1840 to 1900, American and European medical journals published over 100 papers on the therapeutic uses of marijuana, also known as cannabis.
Of course, our knowledge has advanced greatly over the years. Scientists have identified over 60 unique constituents in marijuana, called cannabinoids, and we have learned much about how they work. We have also learned that our own bodies produce similar chemicals, called endocannabinoids.
The mountain of accumulated anecdotal evidence that pointed the way to the present and other clinical studies also strongly suggests there are a number of other devastating disorders and symptoms for which marijuana has been used for centuries; they deserve the same kind of careful, methodologically sound research. While few such studies have so far been completed, all have lent weight to what medicine already knew but had largely forgotten or ignored: Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe -- safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug.
The pharmaceutical industry is scrambling to isolate cannabinoids and synthesize analogs, and to package them in non-smokable forms. In time, companies will almost certainly come up with products and delivery systems that are more useful and less expensive than herbal marijuana. However, the analogs they have produced so far are more expensive than herbal marijuana, and none has shown any improvement over the plant nature gave us to take orally or to smoke.
We live in an antismoking environment. But as a method of delivering certain medicinal compounds, smoking marijuana has some real advantages: The effect is almost instantaneous, allowing the patient, who after all is the best judge, to fine-tune his or her dose to get the needed relief without intoxication. Smoked marijuana has never been demonstrated to have serious pulmonary consequences, but in any case the technology to inhale these cannabinoids without smoking marijuana already exists as vaporizers that allow for smoke-free inhalation.
Hopefully the UCSF study will add to the pressure on the US government to rethink its irrational ban on the medicinal use of marijuana -- and its destructive attacks on patients and caregivers in states that have chosen to allow such use. Rather than admit they have been mistaken all these years, federal officials can cite "important new data" and start revamping outdated and destructive policies. The new Congress could go far in establishing its bona fides as both reasonable and compassionate by immediately moving on this issue.
Such legislation would bring much-needed relief to millions of Americans suffering from cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, and other debilitating illnesses.
Note: Lester Grinspoon, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is the coauthor of "Marijuana, the Forbidden Medicine.
This article originally appeared at http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/48749/"
Medical Marijuanabraindead writes:
" By Lester Grinspoon, Boston Globe.
A new study reveals that pot relieves pain that narcotics like morphine and OxyContin have hardly any effect on, and could help ease suffering from illnesses such as multiple sclerosis and diabetes.
A new study in the journal Neurology is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine. It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine -- and US drug policy -- that we still need "proof" of something that medicine has known for 5,000 years.
The study, from the University of California at San Francisco, found smoked marijuana to be effective at relieving the extreme pain of a debilitating condition known as peripheral neuropathy. It was a study of HIV patients, but a similar type of pain caused by damage to nerves afflicts people with many other illnesses including diabetes and multiple sclerosis. Neuropathic pain is notoriously resistant to treatment with conventional pain drugs. Even powerful and addictive narcotics like morphine and OxyContin often provide little relief. This study leaves no doubt that marijuana can safely ease this type of pain.
As all marijuana research in the United States must be, the new study was conducted with government-supplied marijuana of notoriously poor quality. So it probably underestimated the potential benefit.
This is all good news, but it should not be news at all. In the 40-odd years I have been studying the medicinal uses of marijuana, I have learned that the recorded history of this medicine goes back to ancient times and that in the 19th century it became a well-established Western medicine whose versatility and safety were unquestioned. From 1840 to 1900, American and European medical journals published over 100 papers on the therapeutic uses of marijuana, also known as cannabis.
Of course, our knowledge has advanced greatly over the years. Scientists have identified over 60 unique constituents in marijuana, called cannabinoids, and we have learned much about how they work. We have also learned that our own bodies produce similar chemicals, called endocannabinoids.
The mountain of accumulated anecdotal evidence that pointed the way to the present and other clinical studies also strongly suggests there are a number of other devastating disorders and symptoms for which marijuana has been used for centuries; they deserve the same kind of careful, methodologically sound research. While few such studies have so far been completed, all have lent weight to what medicine already knew but had largely forgotten or ignored: Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms. And it is extraordinarily safe -- safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug.
The pharmaceutical industry is scrambling to isolate cannabinoids and synthesize analogs, and to package them in non-smokable forms. In time, companies will almost certainly come up with products and delivery systems that are more useful and less expensive than herbal marijuana. However, the analogs they have produced so far are more expensive than herbal marijuana, and none has shown any improvement over the plant nature gave us to take orally or to smoke.
We live in an antismoking environment. But as a method of delivering certain medicinal compounds, smoking marijuana has some real advantages: The effect is almost instantaneous, allowing the patient, who after all is the best judge, to fine-tune his or her dose to get the needed relief without intoxication. Smoked marijuana has never been demonstrated to have serious pulmonary consequences, but in any case the technology to inhale these cannabinoids without smoking marijuana already exists as vaporizers that allow for smoke-free inhalation.
Hopefully the UCSF study will add to the pressure on the US government to rethink its irrational ban on the medicinal use of marijuana -- and its destructive attacks on patients and caregivers in states that have chosen to allow such use. Rather than admit they have been mistaken all these years, federal officials can cite "important new data" and start revamping outdated and destructive policies. The new Congress could go far in establishing its bona fides as both reasonable and compassionate by immediately moving on this issue.
Such legislation would bring much-needed relief to millions of Americans suffering from cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, arthritis, and other debilitating illnesses.
Note: Lester Grinspoon, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, is the coauthor of "Marijuana, the Forbidden Medicine.
This article originally appeared at http://www.alternet.org/drugreporter/48749/"
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The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal
We Could Put All Our Farmers Back To Work Tomorrow
The Marijuana Trick - The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal
- Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Where did the word 'marijuana' come from? In the mid 1930s, the M-word was created to tarnish the good image and phenomenal history of the hemp plant...as you will read. The facts cited here, with references, are generally verifiable in the Encyclopedia Britannica, which was printed on hemp paper for 150 years:
All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper until the 1880s; Hemp Paper Reconsidered, Jack Frazier, 1974.
It was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 until the early 1900s; LA Times, August 12, 1981.
REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G. M. Herdon.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers GREW HEMP; Washington and Jefferson Diaries. Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds from China to France then to America.
Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America and it processed hemp. Also, the War of 1812 was fought over hemp. Napoleon wanted to cut off Moscow's export to England; Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer.
For thousands of years, 90% of all ships' sails and rope were made from hemp. The word 'canvas' is Dutch for hemp; Webster's New World Dictionary.
80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed sheets, etc. were made from hemp until the 1820s with the introduction of the cotton gin.
The first Bibles, maps, charts, Betsy Ross's flag, the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were made from hemp; U.S. Government Archives.
The first crop grown in many states was hemp. 1850 was a peak year for Kentucky producing 40,000 tons. Hemp was the largest cash crop until the 20th Century; State Archives.
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Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 8000 years in Persia. Hemp industrialization began 5000 years ago in Central Asia and North Africa, in ancient Persia, China and Egypt.
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Rembrandts, Gainsborough's, Van Gogh's as well as most early canvas paintings were principally painted on hemp linen.
In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs; Department of Agriculture.
Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until 1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products in 1935; Sherman Williams Paint Co. testimony before Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.
Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,' had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.
Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular Mechanics, Feb., 1938.
Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the world.
The following information comes directly from the United States Department of Agriculture's 1942 14-minute film encouraging and instructing 'patriotic American farmers' to grow 350,000 acres of hemp each year for the war effort:
'...When Grecian temples were new, hemp was already old in the service of mankind. For thousands of years, even then, this plant had been grown for cordage and cloth in China and elsewhere in the East. For centuries prior to about 1850, all the ships that sailed the western seas were rigged with hempen rope and sails. For the sailor, no less than the hangman, hemp was indispensable...
...Now with Philippine and East Indian sources of hemp in the hands of the Japanese...American hemp must meet the needs of our Army and Navy as well as of our industries...
...The Navy's rapidly dwindling reserves. When that is gone, American hemp will go on duty again; hemp for mooring ships; hemp for tow lines; hemp for tackle and gear; hemp for countless naval uses both on ship and shore. Just as in the days when Old Ironsides sailed the seas victorious with her hempen shrouds and hempen sails. Hemp for victory!'
Certified proof from the Library of Congress; found by the research of Jack Herer, refuting claims of other government agencies that the 1942 USDA film 'Hemp for Victory' did not exist.
Hemp cultivation and production do not harm the environment. The USDA Bulletin #404 concluded that hemp produces 4 times as much pulp as wood with at least 4 to 7 times less pollution.
From Popular Mechanics, Feb. 1938:
'It has a short growing season...It can be grown in any state...The long roots penetrate and break the soil to leave it in perfect condition for the next year's crop. The dense shock of leaves, 8 to 12 feet above the ground, chokes out weeds....hemp, this new crop can add immeasurably to American agriculture and industry.'
In the 1930s, innovations in farm machinery would have caused an industrial revolution when applied to hemp. This single resource could have created millions of new jobs generating thousands of quality products. Hemp, if not made illegal, would have brought America out of the Great Depression.
William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane) and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Patty Hearst's grandfather, a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit, stood to lose billions because of hemp.
In 1937, Dupont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and coal. Dupont's Annual Report urged stockholders to invest in its new petrochemical division. Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid, methanol, nylon, rayon, Dacron, etc., could now be made from oil. Natural hemp industrialization would have ruined over 80% of Dupont's business.
Andrew Mellon became Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury and Dupont's primary investor. He appointed his future nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger, to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Secret meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was declared dangerous and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises. For their dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. These men took an obscure Mexican slang word: 'marihuana' and pushed it into the consciousness of America.
- Only Thing New Is History We Do not Know -
Hemp, or cannabis, or marijuana was outlawed in 1937 because it threatened the nation-less corporate interests of - William Randolph Hearst and - DuPont. They had to get rid of the competition. - Hearst's yellow journalism newspaper chain wrote scathing stories about "marijuana" - a word he made up - because he knew no one would believe them about hemp, which George Washington himself grew hemp.
The decorticator, a state of the art hemp harvester, led Popular Mechanics to call hemp the New Billion Dollar Crop. - - Because of printing and bindery lead time required for publication, this February 1938 article was actually prepared in the spring of 1937, when cannabis hemp was still legal to grow and was an incredibly fast-growing industry. - - Newsprint could now be produced far more cheaply than any other method, and one acre of hemp could produce as much newsprint as four acres of forest trees. - Hearst owned vast timber acreage and competition from the hemp industry might have driven his paper manufacturing out of business. He stood to lose millions of dollars.
DuPont stood to lose on two fronts. DuPont owned the patent for converting wood pulp into newsprint and supplied Hearst with the necessary chemicals. Secondly, in the 1930s DuPont was gearing up to introduce nylon and other man-made fibers, along with synthetic petrochemical oils, which they hoped would replace hemp see oil used in paints and other products. The decorticator meant that hemp fibers could be manufactured as fine as any man-made fibers. DuPont would lose untold millions of invested dollars, plus an estimated 80 percent of all future business, unless hemp was outlawed.
DuPont's financial backer was Mellon Bank, owned and chaired by Andrew Mellon. - - Andrew Mellon at the time was also Secretary of Treasury Department, which was in charge of drug taxes - -, i.e., prohibition - -. Harry Anslinger, commissioners of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which answered to the Treasury Department, was married to Andrew Mellon's niece. Thus they had the power and the means. - Anslinger's lies about hemp were repeated endlessly in Hearst's newspapers. Stories about marijuana, the killer weed from Mexico, instilled fear and completely misled the public that the weed was, in fact, just good old hemp.
Cannabis hemp was not prohibited because it was dangerous. Indeed, for thousands of years it was the world's largest agricultural crop used in thousands of products and enterprises, producing the majority of fiber, fabric, lighting oil, paper, incense, medicine and food. - No, cannabis hemp was prohibited to protect the Hearst and DuPont corporations from devastating competition, as well as appealing to the overt racism stirred up by Hearst's yellow journalism.
MEDIA MANIPULATION
A media blitz of 'yellow journalism' raged in the late 1920s and 1930s. Hearst's newspapers ran stories emphasizing the horrors of marihuana. The menace of marihuana made headlines. Readers learned that it was responsible for everything from car accidents to loose morality. Films like 'Reefer Madness' (1936), 'Marihuana: Assassin of Youth' (1935) and 'Marihuana: The Devil's Weed' (1936) were propaganda designed by these industrialists to create an enemy. Their purpose was to gain public support so that anti-marihuana laws could be passed.
Examine the following quotes from 'The Burning Question' AKA REEFER MADNESS:
A violent narcotic.
Acts of shocking violence.
Incurable insanity.
Soul-destroying effects.
Under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family with an axe.
More vicious, more deadly even than these soul-destroying drugs (heroin, cocaine) is the menace of marihuana!
Reefer Madness did not end with the usual 'the end.' The film concluded with these words plastered on the screen: TELL YOUR CHILDREN.
In the 1930s, people were very naive; even to the point of ignorance. The masses were like sheep waiting to be led by the few in power. They did not challenge authority. If the news was in print or on the radio, they believed it had to be true. They told their children and their children grew up to be the parents of the baby-boomers.
On April 14, 1937, the Prohibitive Marihuana Tax Law or the bill that outlawed hemp was directly brought to the House Ways and Means Committee. This committee is the only one that can introduce a bill to the House floor without it being debated by other committees. The Chairman of the Ways and Means, Robert Doughton, was a Dupont supporter. He insured that the bill would pass Congress.
Dr. James Woodward, a physician and attorney, testified too late on behalf of the American Medical Association. He told the committee that the reason the AMA had not denounced the Marihuana Tax Law sooner was that the Association had just discovered that marihuana was/is hemp.
Few people, at the time, realized that the deadly menace they had been reading about on Hearst's front pages was in fact passive hemp. The AMA understood hemp to be a MEDICINE found in numerous healing products sold over the last hundred years.
In September of 1937, hemp became illegal. The most useful crop known became a drug and our planet has been suffering ever since.
Congress banned hemp because it was said to be the most violence-causing drug known. Anslinger, head of the Drug Commission for 31 years, promoted the idea that marihuana made users act extremely violent. In the 1950s, under the Communist threat of McCarthyism, Anslinger now said the exact opposite. Marijuana will pacify you so much that soldiers would not want to fight.
Today, our planet is in desperate trouble. Earth is suffocating as large tracts of rain forests disappear. Pollution, poisons and chemicals are killing people. These great problems could be reversed if we industrialized hemp. Natural biomass could provide all of the planet's energy needs that are currently supplied by fossil fuels. We have consumed 80% of our oil and gas reserves. We need a renewable resource. Hemp could be the solution to soaring gas prices.
THE WONDER PLANT
Hemp has a higher quality fiber than wood fiber. Far fewer caustic chemicals are required to make paper from hemp than from trees. Hemp paper does not turn yellow and is very durable. The plant grows quickly to maturity in a season where trees take a lifetime.
ALL PLASTIC PRODUCTS SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP SEED OIL. Hempen plastics are biodegradable! Over time, they would break down and not harm the environment. Oil-based plastics, the ones we are very familiar with, help ruin nature; they do not break down and will do great harm in the future. The process to produce the vast array of natural (hempen) plastics will not ruin the rivers as Dupont and other petrochemical companies have done. Ecology does not fit in with the plans of the Oil Industry and the political machine. Hemp products are safe and natural.
MEDICINES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. We should go back to the days when the AMA supported hemp cures. 'Medical Marijuana' is given out legally to only a handful of people while the rest of us are forced into a system that relies on chemicals. Hemp is only healthy for the human body.
WORLD HUNGER COULD END. A large variety of food products can be generated from hemp. The seeds contain one of the highest sources of protein in nature. ALSO: They have two essential fatty acids that clean your body of cholesterol. These essential fatty acids are not found anywhere else in nature! Consuming hemp seeds is the best thing you could do for your body. Eat uncooked hemp seeds.
CLOTHES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. Hemp clothing is extremely strong and durable over time. You could hand clothing, made from hemp, down to your grandchildren. Today, there are American companies that make hemp clothing; usually 50% hemp. Hemp fabrics should be everywhere. Instead, they are almost underground. Superior hemp products are not allowed to advertise on fascist television. Kentucky, once the top hemp producing state, made it ILLEGAL TO WEAR hemp clothing! Can you imagine being thrown into jail for wearing quality jeans?
The world is crazy...but that does not mean you have to join the insanity. Get together. Spread the news. Tell people, and that includes your children, the truth. Use hemp products. Eliminate the word 'marijuana.' Realize the history that created it. Make it politically incorrect to say or print the M-word. Fight against the propaganda (designed to favor the agenda of the super rich) and their bullshit. We must begin utilizing hemp now! Time is running out! We need a clean energy source to save our lives and planet Earth. WE MUST INDUSTRIALIZE HEMP!
The liquor, tobacco and oil companies fund more than a million dollars a day to Partnership for a Drug-Free America and other similar agencies. We have all seen their commercials. Now, their motto is: 'It's more dangerous than we thought.' Lies from the powerful Nation-Less Corporations, that began with Hearst, are still alive and well today.
The brainwashing continues. Now, the commercials say: If you buy a joint, you contribute to murders and gang wars. The latest - anti-Hemp - commercials say: If you buy a joint...you are promoting TERRORISM! The new enemy, (terrorism) has paved the road to brainwash you any way THEY see fit. The untold truth is that fossil fuels consumption is the direct link and help for maintaining, spreading and protecting TERRORISM, all over the world! Think about this next time pumping GAS into your SUVs at the pump!
There is only one enemy; the friendly people you pay your taxes to; the war-makers and nature destroyers. With your funding, they are killing the world right in front of your eyes. OVER A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY TOBACCO CONSUMPTION. AND HALF A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION.
Ingesting THC, hemp's active agent, has a positive effect; relieving asthma and glaucoma. A joint tends to alleviate the nausea caused by chemotherapy. You are able to eat on hemp. This is a healthy state of being.
There is physical evidence that hemp plant is not like any other plant on Earth. Hemp is the ONLY plant where the males appear one way and the females appear very different, physically! No one ever speaks of males and females in regard to the plant kingdom because plants do not show their sexes; except for hemp. To determine what sex a certain, normal, Earthly plant is, you have to look internally, at its DNA. A male blade of grass (physically) looks exactly like a female blade of grass. The hemp plant has an intense sexuality.
HEMP IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE GREEDY STUPID CRIMINAL BILLIONAIRES WANT TO REMAIN BILLIONAIRES AT ALL COSTS, TO HUMANITY AND EVEN THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WE ALL LIVE!
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- - Evil Will Only Triumph When Good People Do Nothing To Stop It - -
What We, The People Can Do?
- Bahram Maskanian
Actually we can do plenty. Tiny inexpensive modifications in our self-destructive behaviors and taking small actions could potentially protect and save our one and only home, Planet Earth and us, the humankind whose survival is completely depends upon the health and well being of the host, Planet Earth.
To begin with we should review and follow the simple and easy seven (7) step guidelines stated below. We need to learn the two key word definitions also mentioned below. We must learn and understand that only we, the people, have the power to make things better. We need to learn how to obtain control, and exercise our power locally, collectively and responsibly, inspired by the superior wisdom of common sense and based on ethical standards.
1 - A simple low-cost action we all can take right away is to spend a few dollars and buy a couple of canvas shopping bags and take our own canvas bags with us when we go to the market shopping, thus stop accepting plastic bags.
2 - A simple and money saving action we all can take right away is to stop buying any disposable products and products made out of plastic. We must truly and seriously recycle and reuse, remember our one and only home, Planet Earth, is not disposable.
3 - A simple, money saving and environmentally safe action we all can take right away is to put a minimum deposit requirement of at least $0.25, cents for all plastic, glass and aluminum containers, from detergent and vegetable oil, to water and wine bottles.
4 - A simple, money saving and environmentally safe action we all can take right away is to buy a portable thermos. A 25 oz stainless steel vacuum flask double insulated tumbler costs between 7 to 6 dollars. Cool to touch exterior while holding our hot liquids such as coffee, tea or soup inside. We should also get a ceramic mug for drinking water / tea / coffee and having our soup at work. Obviously keeping a stainless steel knife, spoon and a fork for use at work is also a must.
5 - A simple and unifying action we all can take right away is to talk to our friends, family and neighbors to form our own community's action committee. We then must either force our local, city, state and federal politicians to legalize hemp cultivation or throw them out of office and replace them with intelligent and responsible politicians to begin correcting the grave and stupid mistakes of the past.
6 - A simple, money saving, healthy and environmentally safe action we all can take right away is to buy a cookbook, or simply search the Internet where we can find thousands of recipes. We should especially buy organic seasonal fresh fruits and vegetables, naturally raised and produced dairy, meet and eggs to ensure a healthy and happy disease and drug free life. We must learn the joy of cooking. We should cook as much as possible to avoid consuming the unhealthy, cancer causing, full of chemical preservatives and chemical coloring and artificial addictive chemical taste crap of the restaurants foods / deliveries.
7 - A simple, money saving, healthy and environmentally safe action we all can take right away is to buy a dozen soft cotton handkerchiefs for wiping the nose and mouth. We should also buy a dozen cotton wiping cloth (dish towels) especially for use in the kitchen, bathroom and generally around the house.
Definition Of Boycott:
Boycott, is an inherent right of the consuming public to come together in unity abstaining from using, buying, and or dealing with merchants of greed and perpetrators of destructive environmental, economic and political practices currently plaguing the humanity.
Boycott, is an instrument of gaining political grounds and objectives. Boycott, is an expression of non-violent and constructive means of protest to peacefully correct and replace the destructive environmental, economic and political practices with wide-range of all encompassing prospers policies and procedures.
Definition of Politics:
Politics is the art and science of managing or governing one’s entire social and economic affairs interactively in conjunction with the rest of the community, especially the collective governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external relationships. Politics is the activity and interaction engaged in by any given society’s citizens, to build community and establish communal services for all. Politics is the maneuvering methods and tactics involved in managing any given society or state government. A politician is an individual, holding an intriguing and rewarding career of public service that honorably discharges hers or his duties in an ethical and caring manner.
All politics are local. We, the people, must at all times think globally but act locally. We should never forget that Reform always begins with oneself. The spirit and inspiration of reform can only be radiated, advanced and spread by, and through those who have already reformed themselves.
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In The Absence of Sustainable
And Environmentally Safe Hemp Production
- Plastic Particles Are Choking Earth's Oceans -
Plastic is creating an - Ocean Commotion - For years, the problem of plastics in the sea has been of plastics we could see. Six-pack rings strangled wildlife, old nets snared birds and other creatures, small bits and pieces clogged harbors, and garbage ruined our days at the beach. Scientists are more concerned about what is happening to these oceans of plastic. They say it's breaking down into microscopic fragments that are drowning the sea.
For all practical purposes plastics are permanent. Because these synthetic materials do not occur in nature, nature never evolved a process to biodegrade them into harmless compounds. Plastic particles don't disappear. Instead, they simply break apart under the influence of sunlight, water, and abrasion into smaller and smaller pieces. That piece of old Styrofoam that looks like it is decomposing isn't at all. It's simply falling apart into trillions and trillions of microscopic bits of Styrofoam.
And therein lies what researchers have now identified as a problem of unknown dimension: The world's oceans are filling with invisible bits of plastic. According to a study conducted at England's University of Plymouth and published in the May edition of the journal Science, the seven seas are swimming with polymer particles.
Scientists examined 20 sites around the British Isles and found microscopic bits of plastic contaminating almost every soil sample they obtained. From apparently clean beach sand to mud in tidal estuaries and sediments on sea floors some 30 feet beneath the surface, unseen bits of plastic were lurking everywhere.
The researchers looked for nine different kinds of plastic that were easy to chemically identify in minute amounts, including polyester, acrylic and nylon. What they found were polymer fibers as small as 20 microns in length. (- One micron is equal to 1,000,000th of one meter -). Smaller, fragments about 75% smaller than the smallest grains of beach sand. These fibers were embedded in sands and soils and even found inside sea plankton. (- Sea Planktons are microscopic organisms, including algae and protozoans, that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water, especially at or near the surface, and serve as food for fish and other larger organisms. -)
The scientists were also able to ascertain that the flood of plastics filling the seas has been increasing for at least 40 years. Since the 1960s, merchant ships have voluntarily trailed garbage can-sized filters behind them as they plied the ocean's waters. By comparing the current contents of these filters to those of archived filters, researchers were able to show that the number of invisible plastic pieces has tripled over the course of the last generation. Further, since the study's methods couldn't measure plastic fragments smaller than 20 microns, experts said the results, in all likelihood, underreported the actual amount of plastics microscopically drifting in ocean waters.
Currently, scientists aren't sure what all this means for the world and its wildlife, human included. The short answer might be nothing, but that's far from a certainty. As part of the project, researchers put some of the fragments in tanks containing tiny crustaceans, barnacles, and lugworms and found that they were readily eaten. Whether or not such materials accumulate in the food chain to eventually create some type of toxic effect remains to be seen, but previous research has shown that larger, one millimeter-sized pieces of plastic readily absorb toxins from ocean waters and can poison animals that ingest them.
The news that microscopic pieces of plastic are polluting the oceans is just part of a recent tide of discomforting news about the environment that covers 71% of the Earth's surface. According to recent reports from both the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and the Pew Oceans Commission, the world's oceans are in poor health as a result of human pressures. Water quality is falling; coastal development pressures are increasing (some 37 million people have moved to U.S. shore regions in the last 30 years); populations of whales and large fish, like sharks and marlins, have declined by 90%; only 22% of smaller fisheries are being harvested sustainably; and invasive species are causing a number of negative effects.
To combat this, both organizations have recommended a sweeping series of regulatory changes in the way the world's oceans are managed, and a dramatic increase in funding. For more information about these reports and their suggested plans for a rescue at sea, visit:
http://www.pewoceans.org/
http://www.oceancommission.gov/documents/prelimreport/welcome.html
Asthma Miasma: Have Phthalates Flung Dung At Our Kids' Lungs? Among the more eye-opening pieces of evidence that things are out of whack in today's world are the latest asthma statistics for kids. Between 1980 and 1994, the incidence of asthma among pre-school aged children rose 160%, more than twice the overall rate. Today, the disease is the leading chronic illness of childhood. Some nine million kids have the disease, or nearly one in 13. Together, they miss 14 million school days each year and need $3.2 billion of treatment. What's causing all this asthma has been a bit of mystery. Now scientists think they may have a clue. And it's a culprit called phthalates.
Dedicated Non-Toxic Times readers will recall that we've discussed phthalates in these pages before, and never in a positive light. A group of industrial compounds widely used in a variety of common products, there are about 7.6 billion pounds of phthalates produced throughout the world each year. The largest use of phthalates is as a plasticizer in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other soft plastic products. These materials rely on phthalates to keep them flexible. Without the addition of phthalate plasticizers, these otherwise pliant materials would be fairly stiff and difficult to use for their intended purposes. Consumer products that contain phthalate plasticizers include everything from siding and flooring to plastic food wrap and soft plastic toys.
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TODAY'S HEMP INDUSTRY
AUSTRALIA - Tasmania research trials began in 1995. Victoria commercial production since1998. New South Wales has research. In 2002 Queensland began production.
AUSTRIA - has a hemp industry including production of hempseed oil, medicinals and Hanf magazine.
CANADA - started to license research crops in 1994 on an experimental basis. In addition to crops for fibre, one seed crop was experimentally licensed in 1995. Many acres were planted in 1997. Licenses for commercial agriculture saw thousands of acres planted in 1998. 30,000 acres planted in 1999. In 2000, due to speculative investing,12,250 acres were sown. In 2001 ninety-two farmers grew 3,250 acres. A number of Canadian farmers are now growing organically certified hemp crops.
CHILE - has grown hemp in the recent past for seed oil production.
CHINA - is the largest exporter of hemp paper and textiles. The fabrics are of excellent quality. (ma)
DENMARK - planted its first modern hemp trials in 1997. Committed to utilizing organic methods.
ENGLAND - lifted hemp prohibition in 1993. Animal bedding, paper and textiles have been developed. A government grant was given to develop new markets for natural fibers. 4,000 acres were grown in 1994. Subsidies of $230 Eng. pounds per acre are given by the govt. for growing.
FINLAND - had a resurgence of hemp in 1995 with several small test plots. A seed variety for northern climates was developed: Finola, previously know by the breeder code 'FIN-314'. In 2003, Finola was accepted to the EU list of subsidized hemp cultivars. (hamppu)
FRANCE - harvested 10,000 tons in 1994. France is the main source of low-thc producing hempseed. (chanvre)
GERMANY - only banned hemp in 1982, but research began in 1992 and many technologies and products are being developed. Clothes and paper are being made from imported raw materials. Germany lifted the ban on growing hemp November, 1995. Mercedes and BMW use hemp fiber for composites. (hanf)
HUNGARY - is rebuilding their hemp industry, and is one of the biggest exporters of hemp cordage, rugs and hemp fabric to the U.S. They also export hemp seed and hemp paper. Fiberboard is also made. (kender)
INDIA - has large stands of naturalized Cannabis and uses it for cordage, textiles, and seed oil.
JAPAN - has a religious tradition requiring the Emperor wear hemp garments, so there is a small plot maintained for the imperial family only. They have a thriving retail market selling a variety of hemp products. (asa)
NETHERLANDS - is conducting a four years study to evaluate and test hemp for paper, and is developing processing equipment. Seed breeders are developing new strains of low-thc varieties. (hennep)
NEW ZEALAND - started hemp trials in 2001. Various cultivars are being planted in the North and South.
POLAND - currently grows hemp for fabric and cordage and manufactures hemp particle board. They have demonstrated the benefits of using hemp to cleanse soils contaminated by heavy metals. (konopij)
ROMANIA - was the largest commercial producer of hemp in Europe in the late 80's and early 90's. Total acreage in 1993 was 40,000 acres. Some of it is exported to Hungary for processing. They also export to Western Europe and the United States. (cinepa)
RUSSIA - maintains the largest hemp germ plasm collection in the world at the N.I. Vavilov Scientific Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) in Saint Petersburg. They are in need of funds. (konoplya)
SLOVENIA - grows hemp and manufactures currency paper.
SPAIN - grows and exports hemp pulp for paper and produces rope and textiles. (cañamo)
SWITZERLAND - is a producer of hemp and hosts one of the largest hemp events: Cannatrade.
EGYPT, KOREA, PORTUGAL, THAILAND, and the UKRAINE also produce hemp.
USA - The United States - granted the first hemp permit in over 40 years to Hawaii for an experimental quarter acre plot in 1999. The license has been renewed since. Importers and manufacturers have thrived using imported raw materials. Twenty-two states in the United States have introduced legislation. VT, HI, ND, MT, MN, IL, VA, NM, CA, AR, KY, MD, WV have passed legislation for support, research, or cultivation. The National Conference of State Legislators has endorsed industrial hemp production for years.
Get on the - HEMP WAGON - and support the idea by forcing your local, state and federal government officials to do the right thing for a change, and legalize HEMP.
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More Facts About Hemp
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Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years to the beginnings of pottery. The Columbia History of the World states that the oldest relic of human industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 BC.
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Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic. The federal government subsidized hemp during the Second World War and US farmers grew about a million acres of hemp as part of that program.
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Hemp Seed is far more nutritious than even soybean, contains more essential fatty acids than any other source, is second only to soybeans in complete protein (but is more digestible by humans), is high in B-vitamins, and is 35% dietary fiber. Hemp seed is not psychoactive and cannot be used as a drug. See TestPledge.com
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The bark of the hemp stalk contains bast fibers, which are among the Earth's longest natural soft fibers and are also rich in cellulose; the cellulose and hemi-cellulose in its inner woody core are called hurds. Hemp stalk is not psychoactive. Hemp fiber is longer, stronger, more absorbent and more insulative than cotton fiber.
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According to the Department of Energy, hemp as a biomass fuel producer requires the least specialized growing and processing procedures of all hemp products. The hydrocarbons in hemp can be processed into a wide range of biomass energy sources, from fuel pellets to liquid fuels and gas. Development of biofuels could significantly reduce our consumption of fossil fuels and nuclear power.
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Hemp grows well without herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides. Almost half of the agricultural chemicals used on US crops are applied to cotton.
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Hemp produces more pulp per acre than timber on a sustainable basis, and can be used for every quality of paper. Hemp paper manufacturing can reduce wastewater contamination. Hemp's low lignin content reduces the need for acids used in pulping, and it's creamy color lends itself to environmentally friendly bleaching instead of harsh chlorine compounds. Less bleaching results in less dioxin and fewer chemical byproducts.
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pHemp fiber paper resists decomposition, and does not yellow with age when an acid-free process is used. Hemp paper more than 1,500 years old has been found. It can also be recycled more times.
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Hemp fiberboard produced by Washington State University was found to be twice as strong as wood-based fiberboard.
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Eco-friendly hemp can replace most toxic petrochemical products. Research is being done to use hemp in manufacturing biodegradable plastic products: plant-based cellophane, recycled plastic mixed with hemp for injection-molded products, and resins made from the oil, to name just a very few examples.
- http://www.thehia.org/ - http://www.votehemp.com/
- Marijuana Prohibition -
War On A Miraculous Gift
- By Stephen Young - June 2, 2006
If a miracle suddenly appeared, would we try to learn from it or try to destroy it?
A common plant can relieve pain and muscle spasticity. The plant's components show promise to inhibit tumor growth and control diabetes.
The plant contains remarkable substances identical to substances which already flow through human bodies and are thought to regulate critical functions from memory to mood.
A close relative of the plant also offers profitable but Environmentally Friendly alternative fiber and food crops.
Research continues on the plant in the United States, but most studies focus on allegedly negative effects.
The plant is cannabis - more commonly known as marijuana -, and the government does not see it as a miracle. The government denies that marijuana and similar plants - like the very useful buy wholly non-intoxicating hemp - can ever be good. But that denial took another hit from the facts recently.
Marijuana prohibitionists have long argued that since cannabis smoke contains more tars than tobacco, it must cause cancer.
A thorough study presented recently at The American Thoracic Society's annual conference showed that even heavy marijuana smoking did not increase the risk for lung cancer. Indeed, in the study by Donald Tashkin of UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, marijuana smokers showed slightly lower cancer rates than non-smokers.
This is not an entirely new finding, as a review of the literature on lung cancer and marijuana smoke by Dr. Robert Melamede suggested last year.
Tashkin's study results should have been on the front page of every newspaper in the nation. Why? Because we have been wasting lives and resources on a war based on faulty intelligence, only this war has been going on for close to 70 years. And because the media has helped to disseminate this faulty intelligence for an even longer time, it bears the responsibility of correcting the record fully.
The initial reasons given for marijuana prohibition included its supposed propensity to turn users violent. That misconception finally got cleared up as the drug became more popular in the 1960s and 1970s despite prohibition. That era had its own litany of false stories about cannabis, including the absurdity that it made teenage boys sprout breasts. More recently we heard that marijuana smoking will lead to lung, head and neck cancer. It's a lie that is especially damaging considering the reality.
In other places in the world, marijuana is being studied medically, and not only for the relief from cancer treatments like chemotherapy. Research suggests cannabis might actually be an anti-cancer agent, - which would explain why Tashkin's study showed marijuana smokers with lower lung cancer rates than non-smokers. - Italian researchers last week seemed to show anti-cancer properties in substances found in cannabis. This hasn't been widely publicized, similar to other promising research released in 2003, as well as research that goes back to the early 1970s.
If any other substance were involved, this would have been on the cover of major U.S. News magazines, but unfortunately most US Media have missed most of the amazing new science related to cannabis and human health.
Substances called cannabinoids found in cannabis plants also occur naturally human bodies. Special receptors exist around the body specifically to interact with the cannabinoids that we make or that cannabis makes. The cannabinoids don't appear in any other plant. Kind of, well, miraculous, isn't it?
More research needs to be done on how cannabis and cannabinoids can be used beneficially. For now, that research won't take place in the United States.
All U.S. Government funded research starts with the presumption that marijuana is bad. Researchers trying to learn about possible benefits report being denied a legal supply of the plant.
This notion that sending a wholly negative message about marijuana - - even devoting a multi-billion dollar taxpayer financed ad campaign equating the plant with badness - - will somehow keep our young people away from marijuana has also been exposed as a lie. For the past several years teenagers surveyed on drug use say it's easy to get marijuana if they want it.
There are reasons for young people not to use marijuana. Hearing over hyped scare stories about the substance isn't one of them. A recent study of that multi-billion dollar taxpayer financed ad campaign showed many teenagers who viewed the ads became more interested in marijuana, not less.
The rationale for the war on marijuana, and the tactics used to fight that war, have been exposed as false and counterproductive. Each year police arrest more than 700,000 Americans for marijuana. This summer, police across the nation will be out cutting down wild hemp plants that can't intoxicate anyone. Certainly all that police time could be spent on more pressing issues, and otherwise law-abiding citizens don't need to get drawn into the criminal justice system.
As it stands, we are wasting vast resources to destroy another beneficial resource and to ensure that our country stays behind the curve in terms of scientific research. The next medical breakthroughs related to this easily available plant won't occur in our country solely due to ingrained political myopia and cowardice.
We must take off the ideological blinders that decades of drug war have forced on us. We could have new medicine, new crops for farmers, even new revenue streams for government through legitimate taxation, along with regulation schemes to better keep young people out of the market.
In fact, these things will happen one day. It's all coming, and we could all save ourselves a lot of shame and misery by trying to learn from the miracle now, instead of wasting billings trying - but failing - to destroy it.
The miracle itself does not suffer for our actions, but we do.
Stephen Young is an editor with DrugSense Weekly and a member of the Board of Directors for Illinois NORML.
http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm
The Marijuana Trick - The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal
- Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Where did the word 'marijuana' come from? In the mid 1930s, the M-word was created to tarnish the good image and phenomenal history of the hemp plant...as you will read. The facts cited here, with references, are generally verifiable in the Encyclopedia Britannica, which was printed on hemp paper for 150 years:
All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper until the 1880s; Hemp Paper Reconsidered, Jack Frazier, 1974.
It was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 until the early 1900s; LA Times, August 12, 1981.
REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G. M. Herdon.
George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers GREW HEMP; Washington and Jefferson Diaries. Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds from China to France then to America.
Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America and it processed hemp. Also, the War of 1812 was fought over hemp. Napoleon wanted to cut off Moscow's export to England; Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer.
For thousands of years, 90% of all ships' sails and rope were made from hemp. The word 'canvas' is Dutch for hemp; Webster's New World Dictionary.
80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed sheets, etc. were made from hemp until the 1820s with the introduction of the cotton gin.
The first Bibles, maps, charts, Betsy Ross's flag, the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were made from hemp; U.S. Government Archives.
The first crop grown in many states was hemp. 1850 was a peak year for Kentucky producing 40,000 tons. Hemp was the largest cash crop until the 20th Century; State Archives.
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Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 8000 years in Persia. Hemp industrialization began 5000 years ago in Central Asia and North Africa, in ancient Persia, China and Egypt.
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Rembrandts, Gainsborough's, Van Gogh's as well as most early canvas paintings were principally painted on hemp linen.
In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs; Department of Agriculture.
Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until 1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products in 1935; Sherman Williams Paint Co. testimony before Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.
Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,' had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.
Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular Mechanics, Feb., 1938.
Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the world.
The following information comes directly from the United States Department of Agriculture's 1942 14-minute film encouraging and instructing 'patriotic American farmers' to grow 350,000 acres of hemp each year for the war effort:
'...When Grecian temples were new, hemp was already old in the service of mankind. For thousands of years, even then, this plant had been grown for cordage and cloth in China and elsewhere in the East. For centuries prior to about 1850, all the ships that sailed the western seas were rigged with hempen rope and sails. For the sailor, no less than the hangman, hemp was indispensable...
...Now with Philippine and East Indian sources of hemp in the hands of the Japanese...American hemp must meet the needs of our Army and Navy as well as of our industries...
...The Navy's rapidly dwindling reserves. When that is gone, American hemp will go on duty again; hemp for mooring ships; hemp for tow lines; hemp for tackle and gear; hemp for countless naval uses both on ship and shore. Just as in the days when Old Ironsides sailed the seas victorious with her hempen shrouds and hempen sails. Hemp for victory!'
Certified proof from the Library of Congress; found by the research of Jack Herer, refuting claims of other government agencies that the 1942 USDA film 'Hemp for Victory' did not exist.
Hemp cultivation and production do not harm the environment. The USDA Bulletin #404 concluded that hemp produces 4 times as much pulp as wood with at least 4 to 7 times less pollution.
From Popular Mechanics, Feb. 1938:
'It has a short growing season...It can be grown in any state...The long roots penetrate and break the soil to leave it in perfect condition for the next year's crop. The dense shock of leaves, 8 to 12 feet above the ground, chokes out weeds....hemp, this new crop can add immeasurably to American agriculture and industry.'
In the 1930s, innovations in farm machinery would have caused an industrial revolution when applied to hemp. This single resource could have created millions of new jobs generating thousands of quality products. Hemp, if not made illegal, would have brought America out of the Great Depression.
William Randolph Hearst (Citizen Kane) and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Patty Hearst's grandfather, a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit, stood to lose billions because of hemp.
In 1937, Dupont patented the processes to make plastics from oil and coal. Dupont's Annual Report urged stockholders to invest in its new petrochemical division. Synthetics such as plastics, cellophane, celluloid, methanol, nylon, rayon, Dacron, etc., could now be made from oil. Natural hemp industrialization would have ruined over 80% of Dupont's business.
Andrew Mellon became Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury and Dupont's primary investor. He appointed his future nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger, to head the Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.
Secret meetings were held by these financial tycoons. Hemp was declared dangerous and a threat to their billion dollar enterprises. For their dynasties to remain intact, hemp had to go. These men took an obscure Mexican slang word: 'marihuana' and pushed it into the consciousness of America.
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Hemp, or cannabis, or marijuana was outlawed in 1937 because it threatened the nation-less corporate interests of - William Randolph Hearst and - DuPont. They had to get rid of the competition. - Hearst's yellow journalism newspaper chain wrote scathing stories about "marijuana" - a word he made up - because he knew no one would believe them about hemp, which George Washington himself grew hemp.
The decorticator, a state of the art hemp harvester, led Popular Mechanics to call hemp the New Billion Dollar Crop. - - Because of printing and bindery lead time required for publication, this February 1938 article was actually prepared in the spring of 1937, when cannabis hemp was still legal to grow and was an incredibly fast-growing industry. - - Newsprint could now be produced far more cheaply than any other method, and one acre of hemp could produce as much newsprint as four acres of forest trees. - Hearst owned vast timber acreage and competition from the hemp industry might have driven his paper manufacturing out of business. He stood to lose millions of dollars.
DuPont stood to lose on two fronts. DuPont owned the patent for converting wood pulp into newsprint and supplied Hearst with the necessary chemicals. Secondly, in the 1930s DuPont was gearing up to introduce nylon and other man-made fibers, along with synthetic petrochemical oils, which they hoped would replace hemp see oil used in paints and other products. The decorticator meant that hemp fibers could be manufactured as fine as any man-made fibers. DuPont would lose untold millions of invested dollars, plus an estimated 80 percent of all future business, unless hemp was outlawed.
DuPont's financial backer was Mellon Bank, owned and chaired by Andrew Mellon. - - Andrew Mellon at the time was also Secretary of Treasury Department, which was in charge of drug taxes - -, i.e., prohibition - -. Harry Anslinger, commissioners of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which answered to the Treasury Department, was married to Andrew Mellon's niece. Thus they had the power and the means. - Anslinger's lies about hemp were repeated endlessly in Hearst's newspapers. Stories about marijuana, the killer weed from Mexico, instilled fear and completely misled the public that the weed was, in fact, just good old hemp.
Cannabis hemp was not prohibited because it was dangerous. Indeed, for thousands of years it was the world's largest agricultural crop used in thousands of products and enterprises, producing the majority of fiber, fabric, lighting oil, paper, incense, medicine and food. - No, cannabis hemp was prohibited to protect the Hearst and DuPont corporations from devastating competition, as well as appealing to the overt racism stirred up by Hearst's yellow journalism.
MEDIA MANIPULATION
A media blitz of 'yellow journalism' raged in the late 1920s and 1930s. Hearst's newspapers ran stories emphasizing the horrors of marihuana. The menace of marihuana made headlines. Readers learned that it was responsible for everything from car accidents to loose morality. Films like 'Reefer Madness' (1936), 'Marihuana: Assassin of Youth' (1935) and 'Marihuana: The Devil's Weed' (1936) were propaganda designed by these industrialists to create an enemy. Their purpose was to gain public support so that anti-marihuana laws could be passed.
Examine the following quotes from 'The Burning Question' AKA REEFER MADNESS:
A violent narcotic.
Acts of shocking violence.
Incurable insanity.
Soul-destroying effects.
Under the influence of the drug he killed his entire family with an axe.
More vicious, more deadly even than these soul-destroying drugs (heroin, cocaine) is the menace of marihuana!
Reefer Madness did not end with the usual 'the end.' The film concluded with these words plastered on the screen: TELL YOUR CHILDREN.
In the 1930s, people were very naive; even to the point of ignorance. The masses were like sheep waiting to be led by the few in power. They did not challenge authority. If the news was in print or on the radio, they believed it had to be true. They told their children and their children grew up to be the parents of the baby-boomers.
On April 14, 1937, the Prohibitive Marihuana Tax Law or the bill that outlawed hemp was directly brought to the House Ways and Means Committee. This committee is the only one that can introduce a bill to the House floor without it being debated by other committees. The Chairman of the Ways and Means, Robert Doughton, was a Dupont supporter. He insured that the bill would pass Congress.
Dr. James Woodward, a physician and attorney, testified too late on behalf of the American Medical Association. He told the committee that the reason the AMA had not denounced the Marihuana Tax Law sooner was that the Association had just discovered that marihuana was/is hemp.
Few people, at the time, realized that the deadly menace they had been reading about on Hearst's front pages was in fact passive hemp. The AMA understood hemp to be a MEDICINE found in numerous healing products sold over the last hundred years.
In September of 1937, hemp became illegal. The most useful crop known became a drug and our planet has been suffering ever since.
Congress banned hemp because it was said to be the most violence-causing drug known. Anslinger, head of the Drug Commission for 31 years, promoted the idea that marihuana made users act extremely violent. In the 1950s, under the Communist threat of McCarthyism, Anslinger now said the exact opposite. Marijuana will pacify you so much that soldiers would not want to fight.
Today, our planet is in desperate trouble. Earth is suffocating as large tracts of rain forests disappear. Pollution, poisons and chemicals are killing people. These great problems could be reversed if we industrialized hemp. Natural biomass could provide all of the planet's energy needs that are currently supplied by fossil fuels. We have consumed 80% of our oil and gas reserves. We need a renewable resource. Hemp could be the solution to soaring gas prices.
THE WONDER PLANT
Hemp has a higher quality fiber than wood fiber. Far fewer caustic chemicals are required to make paper from hemp than from trees. Hemp paper does not turn yellow and is very durable. The plant grows quickly to maturity in a season where trees take a lifetime.
ALL PLASTIC PRODUCTS SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP SEED OIL. Hempen plastics are biodegradable! Over time, they would break down and not harm the environment. Oil-based plastics, the ones we are very familiar with, help ruin nature; they do not break down and will do great harm in the future. The process to produce the vast array of natural (hempen) plastics will not ruin the rivers as Dupont and other petrochemical companies have done. Ecology does not fit in with the plans of the Oil Industry and the political machine. Hemp products are safe and natural.
MEDICINES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. We should go back to the days when the AMA supported hemp cures. 'Medical Marijuana' is given out legally to only a handful of people while the rest of us are forced into a system that relies on chemicals. Hemp is only healthy for the human body.
WORLD HUNGER COULD END. A large variety of food products can be generated from hemp. The seeds contain one of the highest sources of protein in nature. ALSO: They have two essential fatty acids that clean your body of cholesterol. These essential fatty acids are not found anywhere else in nature! Consuming hemp seeds is the best thing you could do for your body. Eat uncooked hemp seeds.
CLOTHES SHOULD BE MADE FROM HEMP. Hemp clothing is extremely strong and durable over time. You could hand clothing, made from hemp, down to your grandchildren. Today, there are American companies that make hemp clothing; usually 50% hemp. Hemp fabrics should be everywhere. Instead, they are almost underground. Superior hemp products are not allowed to advertise on fascist television. Kentucky, once the top hemp producing state, made it ILLEGAL TO WEAR hemp clothing! Can you imagine being thrown into jail for wearing quality jeans?
The world is crazy...but that does not mean you have to join the insanity. Get together. Spread the news. Tell people, and that includes your children, the truth. Use hemp products. Eliminate the word 'marijuana.' Realize the history that created it. Make it politically incorrect to say or print the M-word. Fight against the propaganda (designed to favor the agenda of the super rich) and their bullshit. We must begin utilizing hemp now! Time is running out! We need a clean energy source to save our lives and planet Earth. WE MUST INDUSTRIALIZE HEMP!
The liquor, tobacco and oil companies fund more than a million dollars a day to Partnership for a Drug-Free America and other similar agencies. We have all seen their commercials. Now, their motto is: 'It's more dangerous than we thought.' Lies from the powerful Nation-Less Corporations, that began with Hearst, are still alive and well today.
The brainwashing continues. Now, the commercials say: If you buy a joint, you contribute to murders and gang wars. The latest - anti-Hemp - commercials say: If you buy a joint...you are promoting TERRORISM! The new enemy, (terrorism) has paved the road to brainwash you any way THEY see fit. The untold truth is that fossil fuels consumption is the direct link and help for maintaining, spreading and protecting TERRORISM, all over the world! Think about this next time pumping GAS into your SUVs at the pump!
There is only one enemy; the friendly people you pay your taxes to; the war-makers and nature destroyers. With your funding, they are killing the world right in front of your eyes. OVER A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY TOBACCO CONSUMPTION. AND HALF A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION.
Ingesting THC, hemp's active agent, has a positive effect; relieving asthma and glaucoma. A joint tends to alleviate the nausea caused by chemotherapy. You are able to eat on hemp. This is a healthy state of being.
There is physical evidence that hemp plant is not like any other plant on Earth. Hemp is the ONLY plant where the males appear one way and the females appear very different, physically! No one ever speaks of males and females in regard to the plant kingdom because plants do not show their sexes; except for hemp. To determine what sex a certain, normal, Earthly plant is, you have to look internally, at its DNA. A male blade of grass (physically) looks exactly like a female blade of grass. The hemp plant has an intense sexuality.
HEMP IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE GREEDY STUPID CRIMINAL BILLIONAIRES WANT TO REMAIN BILLIONAIRES AT ALL COSTS, TO HUMANITY AND EVEN THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH WE ALL LIVE!
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What We, The People Can Do?
- Bahram Maskanian
Actually we can do plenty. Tiny inexpensive modifications in our self-destructive behaviors and taking small actions could potentially protect and save our one and only home, Planet Earth and us, the humankind whose survival is completely depends upon the health and well being of the host, Planet Earth.
To begin with we should review and follow the simple and easy seven (7) step guidelines stated below. We need to learn the two key word definitions also mentioned below. We must learn and understand that only we, the people, have the power to make things better. We need to learn how to obtain control, and exercise our power locally, collectively and responsibly, inspired by the superior wisdom of common sense and based on ethical standards.
1 - A simple low-cost action we all can take right away is to spend a few dollars and buy a couple of canvas shopping bags and take our own canvas bags with us when we go to the market shopping, thus stop accepting plastic bags.
2 - A simple and money saving action we all can take right away is to stop buying any disposable products and products made out of plastic. We must truly and seriously recycle and reuse, remember our one and only home, Planet Earth, is not disposable.
3 - A simple, money saving and environmentally safe action we all can take right away is to put a minimum deposit requirement of at least $0.25, cents for all plastic, glass and aluminum containers, from detergent and vegetable oil, to water and wine bottles.
4 - A simple, money saving and environmentally safe action we all can take right away is to buy a portable thermos. A 25 oz stainless steel vacuum flask double insulated tumbler costs between 7 to 6 dollars. Cool to touch exterior while holding our hot liquids such as coffee, tea or soup inside. We should also get a ceramic mug for drinking water / tea / coffee and having our soup at work. Obviously keeping a stainless steel knife, spoon and a fork for use at work is also a must.
5 - A simple and unifying action we all can take right away is to talk to our friends, family and neighbors to form our own community's action committee. We then must either force our local, city, state and federal politicians to legalize hemp cultivation or throw them out of office and replace them with intelligent and responsible politicians to begin correcting the grave and stupid mistakes of the past.
6 - A simple, money saving, healthy and environmentally safe action we all can take right away is to buy a cookbook, or simply search the Internet where we can find thousands of recipes. We should especially buy organic seasonal fresh fruits and vegetables, naturally raised and produced dairy, meet and eggs to ensure a healthy and happy disease and drug free life. We must learn the joy of cooking. We should cook as much as possible to avoid consuming the unhealthy, cancer causing, full of chemical preservatives and chemical coloring and artificial addictive chemical taste crap of the restaurants foods / deliveries.
7 - A simple, money saving, healthy and environmentally safe action we all can take right away is to buy a dozen soft cotton handkerchiefs for wiping the nose and mouth. We should also buy a dozen cotton wiping cloth (dish towels) especially for use in the kitchen, bathroom and generally around the house.
Definition Of Boycott:
Boycott, is an inherent right of the consuming public to come together in unity abstaining from using, buying, and or dealing with merchants of greed and perpetrators of destructive environmental, economic and political practices currently plaguing the humanity.
Boycott, is an instrument of gaining political grounds and objectives. Boycott, is an expression of non-violent and constructive means of protest to peacefully correct and replace the destructive environmental, economic and political practices with wide-range of all encompassing prospers policies and procedures.
Definition of Politics:
Politics is the art and science of managing or governing one’s entire social and economic affairs interactively in conjunction with the rest of the community, especially the collective governing of a political entity, such as a nation, and the administration and control of its internal and external relationships. Politics is the activity and interaction engaged in by any given society’s citizens, to build community and establish communal services for all. Politics is the maneuvering methods and tactics involved in managing any given society or state government. A politician is an individual, holding an intriguing and rewarding career of public service that honorably discharges hers or his duties in an ethical and caring manner.
All politics are local. We, the people, must at all times think globally but act locally. We should never forget that Reform always begins with oneself. The spirit and inspiration of reform can only be radiated, advanced and spread by, and through those who have already reformed themselves.
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In The Absence of Sustainable
And Environmentally Safe Hemp Production
- Plastic Particles Are Choking Earth's Oceans -
Plastic is creating an - Ocean Commotion - For years, the problem of plastics in the sea has been of plastics we could see. Six-pack rings strangled wildlife, old nets snared birds and other creatures, small bits and pieces clogged harbors, and garbage ruined our days at the beach. Scientists are more concerned about what is happening to these oceans of plastic. They say it's breaking down into microscopic fragments that are drowning the sea.
For all practical purposes plastics are permanent. Because these synthetic materials do not occur in nature, nature never evolved a process to biodegrade them into harmless compounds. Plastic particles don't disappear. Instead, they simply break apart under the influence of sunlight, water, and abrasion into smaller and smaller pieces. That piece of old Styrofoam that looks like it is decomposing isn't at all. It's simply falling apart into trillions and trillions of microscopic bits of Styrofoam.
And therein lies what researchers have now identified as a problem of unknown dimension: The world's oceans are filling with invisible bits of plastic. According to a study conducted at England's University of Plymouth and published in the May edition of the journal Science, the seven seas are swimming with polymer particles.
Scientists examined 20 sites around the British Isles and found microscopic bits of plastic contaminating almost every soil sample they obtained. From apparently clean beach sand to mud in tidal estuaries and sediments on sea floors some 30 feet beneath the surface, unseen bits of plastic were lurking everywhere.
The researchers looked for nine different kinds of plastic that were easy to chemically identify in minute amounts, including polyester, acrylic and nylon. What they found were polymer fibers as small as 20 microns in length. (- One micron is equal to 1,000,000th of one meter -). Smaller, fragments about 75% smaller than the smallest grains of beach sand. These fibers were embedded in sands and soils and even found inside sea plankton. (- Sea Planktons are microscopic organisms, including algae and protozoans, that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water, especially at or near the surface, and serve as food for fish and other larger organisms. -)
The scientists were also able to ascertain that the flood of plastics filling the seas has been increasing for at least 40 years. Since the 1960s, merchant ships have voluntarily trailed garbage can-sized filters behind them as they plied the ocean's waters. By comparing the current contents of these filters to those of archived filters, researchers were able to show that the number of invisible plastic pieces has tripled over the course of the last generation. Further, since the study's methods couldn't measure plastic fragments smaller than 20 microns, experts said the results, in all likelihood, underreported the actual amount of plastics microscopically drifting in ocean waters.
Currently, scientists aren't sure what all this means for the world and its wildlife, human included. The short answer might be nothing, but that's far from a certainty. As part of the project, researchers put some of the fragments in tanks containing tiny crustaceans, barnacles, and lugworms and found that they were readily eaten. Whether or not such materials accumulate in the food chain to eventually create some type of toxic effect remains to be seen, but previous research has shown that larger, one millimeter-sized pieces of plastic readily absorb toxins from ocean waters and can poison animals that ingest them.
The news that microscopic pieces of plastic are polluting the oceans is just part of a recent tide of discomforting news about the environment that covers 71% of the Earth's surface. According to recent reports from both the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and the Pew Oceans Commission, the world's oceans are in poor health as a result of human pressures. Water quality is falling; coastal development pressures are increasing (some 37 million people have moved to U.S. shore regions in the last 30 years); populations of whales and large fish, like sharks and marlins, have declined by 90%; only 22% of smaller fisheries are being harvested sustainably; and invasive species are causing a number of negative effects.
To combat this, both organizations have recommended a sweeping series of regulatory changes in the way the world's oceans are managed, and a dramatic increase in funding. For more information about these reports and their suggested plans for a rescue at sea, visit:
http://www.pewoceans.org/
http://www.oceancommission.gov/documents/prelimreport/welcome.html
Asthma Miasma: Have Phthalates Flung Dung At Our Kids' Lungs? Among the more eye-opening pieces of evidence that things are out of whack in today's world are the latest asthma statistics for kids. Between 1980 and 1994, the incidence of asthma among pre-school aged children rose 160%, more than twice the overall rate. Today, the disease is the leading chronic illness of childhood. Some nine million kids have the disease, or nearly one in 13. Together, they miss 14 million school days each year and need $3.2 billion of treatment. What's causing all this asthma has been a bit of mystery. Now scientists think they may have a clue. And it's a culprit called phthalates.
Dedicated Non-Toxic Times readers will recall that we've discussed phthalates in these pages before, and never in a positive light. A group of industrial compounds widely used in a variety of common products, there are about 7.6 billion pounds of phthalates produced throughout the world each year. The largest use of phthalates is as a plasticizer in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and other soft plastic products. These materials rely on phthalates to keep them flexible. Without the addition of phthalate plasticizers, these otherwise pliant materials would be fairly stiff and difficult to use for their intended purposes. Consumer products that contain phthalate plasticizers include everything from siding and flooring to plastic food wrap and soft plastic toys.
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TODAY'S HEMP INDUSTRY
AUSTRALIA - Tasmania research trials began in 1995. Victoria commercial production since1998. New South Wales has research. In 2002 Queensland began production.
AUSTRIA - has a hemp industry including production of hempseed oil, medicinals and Hanf magazine.
CANADA - started to license research crops in 1994 on an experimental basis. In addition to crops for fibre, one seed crop was experimentally licensed in 1995. Many acres were planted in 1997. Licenses for commercial agriculture saw thousands of acres planted in 1998. 30,000 acres planted in 1999. In 2000, due to speculative investing,12,250 acres were sown. In 2001 ninety-two farmers grew 3,250 acres. A number of Canadian farmers are now growing organically certified hemp crops.
CHILE - has grown hemp in the recent past for seed oil production.
CHINA - is the largest exporter of hemp paper and textiles. The fabrics are of excellent quality. (ma)
DENMARK - planted its first modern hemp trials in 1997. Committed to utilizing organic methods.
ENGLAND - lifted hemp prohibition in 1993. Animal bedding, paper and textiles have been developed. A government grant was given to develop new markets for natural fibers. 4,000 acres were grown in 1994. Subsidies of $230 Eng. pounds per acre are given by the govt. for growing.
FINLAND - had a resurgence of hemp in 1995 with several small test plots. A seed variety for northern climates was developed: Finola, previously know by the breeder code 'FIN-314'. In 2003, Finola was accepted to the EU list of subsidized hemp cultivars. (hamppu)
FRANCE - harvested 10,000 tons in 1994. France is the main source of low-thc producing hempseed. (chanvre)
GERMANY - only banned hemp in 1982, but research began in 1992 and many technologies and products are being developed. Clothes and paper are being made from imported raw materials. Germany lifted the ban on growing hemp November, 1995. Mercedes and BMW use hemp fiber for composites. (hanf)
HUNGARY - is rebuilding their hemp industry, and is one of the biggest exporters of hemp cordage, rugs and hemp fabric to the U.S. They also export hemp seed and hemp paper. Fiberboard is also made. (kender)
INDIA - has large stands of naturalized Cannabis and uses it for cordage, textiles, and seed oil.
JAPAN - has a religious tradition requiring the Emperor wear hemp garments, so there is a small plot maintained for the imperial family only. They have a thriving retail market selling a variety of hemp products. (asa)
NETHERLANDS - is conducting a four years study to evaluate and test hemp for paper, and is developing processing equipment. Seed breeders are developing new strains of low-thc varieties. (hennep)
NEW ZEALAND - started hemp trials in 2001. Various cultivars are being planted in the North and South.
POLAND - currently grows hemp for fabric and cordage and manufactures hemp particle board. They have demonstrated the benefits of using hemp to cleanse soils contaminated by heavy metals. (konopij)
ROMANIA - was the largest commercial producer of hemp in Europe in the late 80's and early 90's. Total acreage in 1993 was 40,000 acres. Some of it is exported to Hungary for processing. They also export to Western Europe and the United States. (cinepa)
RUSSIA - maintains the largest hemp germ plasm collection in the world at the N.I. Vavilov Scientific Research Institute of Plant Industry (VIR) in Saint Petersburg. They are in need of funds. (konoplya)
SLOVENIA - grows hemp and manufactures currency paper.
SPAIN - grows and exports hemp pulp for paper and produces rope and textiles. (cañamo)
SWITZERLAND - is a producer of hemp and hosts one of the largest hemp events: Cannatrade.
EGYPT, KOREA, PORTUGAL, THAILAND, and the UKRAINE also produce hemp.
USA - The United States - granted the first hemp permit in over 40 years to Hawaii for an experimental quarter acre plot in 1999. The license has been renewed since. Importers and manufacturers have thrived using imported raw materials. Twenty-two states in the United States have introduced legislation. VT, HI, ND, MT, MN, IL, VA, NM, CA, AR, KY, MD, WV have passed legislation for support, research, or cultivation. The National Conference of State Legislators has endorsed industrial hemp production for years.
Get on the - HEMP WAGON - and support the idea by forcing your local, state and federal government officials to do the right thing for a change, and legalize HEMP.
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More Facts About Hemp
1.
Hemp is among the oldest industries on the planet, going back more than 10,000 years to the beginnings of pottery. The Columbia History of the World states that the oldest relic of human industry is a bit of hemp fabric dating back to approximately 8,000 BC.
2.
Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic. The federal government subsidized hemp during the Second World War and US farmers grew about a million acres of hemp as part of that program.
3.
Hemp Seed is far more nutritious than even soybean, contains more essential fatty acids than any other source, is second only to soybeans in complete protein (but is more digestible by humans), is high in B-vitamins, and is 35% dietary fiber. Hemp seed is not psychoactive and cannot be used as a drug. See TestPledge.com
4.
The bark of the hemp stalk contains bast fibers, which are among the Earth's longest natural soft fibers and are also rich in cellulose; the cellulose and hemi-cellulose in its inner woody core are called hurds. Hemp stalk is not psychoactive. Hemp fiber is longer, stronger, more absorbent and more insulative than cotton fiber.
5.
According to the Department of Energy, hemp as a biomass fuel producer requires the least specialized growing and processing procedures of all hemp products. The hydrocarbons in hemp can be processed into a wide range of biomass energy sources, from fuel pellets to liquid fuels and gas. Development of biofuels could significantly reduce our consumption of fossil fuels and nuclear power.
6.
Hemp grows well without herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides. Almost half of the agricultural chemicals used on US crops are applied to cotton.
7.
Hemp produces more pulp per acre than timber on a sustainable basis, and can be used for every quality of paper. Hemp paper manufacturing can reduce wastewater contamination. Hemp's low lignin content reduces the need for acids used in pulping, and it's creamy color lends itself to environmentally friendly bleaching instead of harsh chlorine compounds. Less bleaching results in less dioxin and fewer chemical byproducts.
8.
pHemp fiber paper resists decomposition, and does not yellow with age when an acid-free process is used. Hemp paper more than 1,500 years old has been found. It can also be recycled more times.
9.
Hemp fiberboard produced by Washington State University was found to be twice as strong as wood-based fiberboard.
10.
Eco-friendly hemp can replace most toxic petrochemical products. Research is being done to use hemp in manufacturing biodegradable plastic products: plant-based cellophane, recycled plastic mixed with hemp for injection-molded products, and resins made from the oil, to name just a very few examples.
- http://www.thehia.org/ - http://www.votehemp.com/
- Marijuana Prohibition -
War On A Miraculous Gift
- By Stephen Young - June 2, 2006
If a miracle suddenly appeared, would we try to learn from it or try to destroy it?
A common plant can relieve pain and muscle spasticity. The plant's components show promise to inhibit tumor growth and control diabetes.
The plant contains remarkable substances identical to substances which already flow through human bodies and are thought to regulate critical functions from memory to mood.
A close relative of the plant also offers profitable but Environmentally Friendly alternative fiber and food crops.
Research continues on the plant in the United States, but most studies focus on allegedly negative effects.
The plant is cannabis - more commonly known as marijuana -, and the government does not see it as a miracle. The government denies that marijuana and similar plants - like the very useful buy wholly non-intoxicating hemp - can ever be good. But that denial took another hit from the facts recently.
Marijuana prohibitionists have long argued that since cannabis smoke contains more tars than tobacco, it must cause cancer.
A thorough study presented recently at The American Thoracic Society's annual conference showed that even heavy marijuana smoking did not increase the risk for lung cancer. Indeed, in the study by Donald Tashkin of UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine, marijuana smokers showed slightly lower cancer rates than non-smokers.
This is not an entirely new finding, as a review of the literature on lung cancer and marijuana smoke by Dr. Robert Melamede suggested last year.
Tashkin's study results should have been on the front page of every newspaper in the nation. Why? Because we have been wasting lives and resources on a war based on faulty intelligence, only this war has been going on for close to 70 years. And because the media has helped to disseminate this faulty intelligence for an even longer time, it bears the responsibility of correcting the record fully.
The initial reasons given for marijuana prohibition included its supposed propensity to turn users violent. That misconception finally got cleared up as the drug became more popular in the 1960s and 1970s despite prohibition. That era had its own litany of false stories about cannabis, including the absurdity that it made teenage boys sprout breasts. More recently we heard that marijuana smoking will lead to lung, head and neck cancer. It's a lie that is especially damaging considering the reality.
In other places in the world, marijuana is being studied medically, and not only for the relief from cancer treatments like chemotherapy. Research suggests cannabis might actually be an anti-cancer agent, - which would explain why Tashkin's study showed marijuana smokers with lower lung cancer rates than non-smokers. - Italian researchers last week seemed to show anti-cancer properties in substances found in cannabis. This hasn't been widely publicized, similar to other promising research released in 2003, as well as research that goes back to the early 1970s.
If any other substance were involved, this would have been on the cover of major U.S. News magazines, but unfortunately most US Media have missed most of the amazing new science related to cannabis and human health.
Substances called cannabinoids found in cannabis plants also occur naturally human bodies. Special receptors exist around the body specifically to interact with the cannabinoids that we make or that cannabis makes. The cannabinoids don't appear in any other plant. Kind of, well, miraculous, isn't it?
More research needs to be done on how cannabis and cannabinoids can be used beneficially. For now, that research won't take place in the United States.
All U.S. Government funded research starts with the presumption that marijuana is bad. Researchers trying to learn about possible benefits report being denied a legal supply of the plant.
This notion that sending a wholly negative message about marijuana - - even devoting a multi-billion dollar taxpayer financed ad campaign equating the plant with badness - - will somehow keep our young people away from marijuana has also been exposed as a lie. For the past several years teenagers surveyed on drug use say it's easy to get marijuana if they want it.
There are reasons for young people not to use marijuana. Hearing over hyped scare stories about the substance isn't one of them. A recent study of that multi-billion dollar taxpayer financed ad campaign showed many teenagers who viewed the ads became more interested in marijuana, not less.
The rationale for the war on marijuana, and the tactics used to fight that war, have been exposed as false and counterproductive. Each year police arrest more than 700,000 Americans for marijuana. This summer, police across the nation will be out cutting down wild hemp plants that can't intoxicate anyone. Certainly all that police time could be spent on more pressing issues, and otherwise law-abiding citizens don't need to get drawn into the criminal justice system.
As it stands, we are wasting vast resources to destroy another beneficial resource and to ensure that our country stays behind the curve in terms of scientific research. The next medical breakthroughs related to this easily available plant won't occur in our country solely due to ingrained political myopia and cowardice.
We must take off the ideological blinders that decades of drug war have forced on us. We could have new medicine, new crops for farmers, even new revenue streams for government through legitimate taxation, along with regulation schemes to better keep young people out of the market.
In fact, these things will happen one day. It's all coming, and we could all save ourselves a lot of shame and misery by trying to learn from the miracle now, instead of wasting billings trying - but failing - to destroy it.
The miracle itself does not suffer for our actions, but we do.
Stephen Young is an editor with DrugSense Weekly and a member of the Board of Directors for Illinois NORML.
http://www.drugsense.org/current.htm
Marijuana, Medicine & the FDA
Jettisoning Science, Objectivity and Logic in Favor of Morally Bankrupt Politics
Bruce Mirken
On April 20, the FDA jumped into the medical marijuana controversy with a statement that was puzzling on many levels and should leave all Americans concerned about the politicization of the agency we depend on to protect our health.The document proclaimed that "no sound scientific studies" support medical use of marijuana and condemned state medical marijuana laws as an effort "to bypass the FDA drug-approval process". The FDA was wrong on both counts. The statement, a one-page press release accompanied by no references or documentation, was an odd beast. It cited neither new scientific data nor any new analysis of old data.
The FDA did not, as it often does when addressing difficult issues, convene an advisory committee of independent experts. Indeed, the document appeared to be nothing but a rehash of the government’s long-standing position. It also conveniently ignored 5,000 years of accumulated evidence of marijuana’s medical benefit. Rather than describe that evidence my self as spokesman for the organization that led the campaigns for America’s three newest medical marijuana laws, I might not be seen as an unbiased observerlet’s consider what impartial experts have found. DEA Hearing In response to a petition asking for marijuana to be moved from Schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act, which bars physician prescriptions, to a schedule that would allow it to be legally prescribed, Drug Enforcement Administration Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young conducted extensive hearings in 1987 and 1988so extensive that the transcripts fill 15 volumes. Young found "uncontroverted" evidence that marijuana relieves nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy and is an accepted treatment for these conditions. He also found strong evidence for marijuana’s benefit and acceptance as a treatment for multiple sclerosis, concluding, "The evidence in this record clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people and doing so with safety under medical supervision. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary, and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record".
Judge Young’s decision was overruled by political appointees at the DEA, who kept marijuana in Schedule I. Eventually, an appeals court ruled that federal law allowed the DEA to ignore Young’s findings.In 1995, the American Public Health Association (APHA) adopted a policy resolution on medical marijuana, citing nearly two dozen studies reporting marijuana’s safety and efficacy against pain, nausea, vomiting, seizures, and other symptoms. The APHA urged the government "to expeditiously" make marijuana available to patients through the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program that the first Bush administration had closed to new applicants in 1991, declaring, "Greater harm is caused by the legal consequences of [marijuana’s] prohibition than possible risks of medicinal use".
Like Young, the APHA went out of its way to discuss marijuana’s remarkable safety record, noting, "Marijuana has an extremely wide acute margin of safety for use under medical supervision and cannot cause lethal reactions". In contrast, acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, causes about 500 U.S. deaths from acute liver failure each year.Institute of Medicine ReportA year later, California passed the first effective state medical marijuana law, Proposition 215, despite opposition from the Clinton administration. Clinton’s drug czar, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to review the existing scientific data on marijuana’s therapeutic uses. Its report, "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base", issued in early 1999, is available at books.nap.edu/html/marimed.Federal officials have alternated between two strategies for dealing with the IOM report. Sometimes, as in the recent FDA statement, they simply act as if it never happened. At other times, they quote out-of-context snippets that seem to support the government’s position that whole marijuana has no place in medicine, even though isolated or synthesized versions of marijuana’s active components, called cannabinoids, might while ignoring passages that contradict official policy. The IOM did indeed state that "smoked marijuana is a crude delivery system that also delivers harmful substances", and thus, "there is little future in smoked marijuana as a medically approved medication". To solve this problem, the report urged "development of a nonsmoked, rapid-onset delivery system for cannabinoid drugs".
Nevertheless, the report noted extensive documentation of therapeutic benefits from marijuana. "Nausea, appetite loss, pain, and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting and all can be mitigated by marijuana. Scientific data indicate the potential therapeutic value of cannabinoid drugs, primarily THC, for pain relief, control of nausea and vomiting, and appetite stimulation". And while urging development of marijuana-derived pharmaceuticals, the IOM added pointedly, "Patients who are currently suffering from debilitating conditions, unrelieved by legally available drugs and who might find relief with smoked marijuana, will find little comfort in the promise of a better drug 10 years from now".Delivery SystemThe sort of nonsmoked, rapid-onset delivery system the IOM called for exists today. Vaporizers take advantage of the fact that cannabinoids vaporize at a temperature below the temperature at which the plant material starts to burn. By heating marijuana to the proper temperature, a vaporizer allows inhalation of the cannabinoids, providing the rapid onset of action and easy dose titration that patients prefer without the hazardous combustion products contained in smoke.
A study of one such product, the Volcano, published in the June 2006 Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, concludes with language startlingly parallel to the IOM’s "What is currently needed for optimal use of medicinal cannabinoids is a feasible, nonsmoked, rapid-onset delivery system. With the Volcano, a safe and effective cannabinoid delivery system appears to be available to patients".Multiple independent analyses (many more than can be listed here) have found that marijuana has medicinal value, and the biggest objection to its use, the pulmonary risks of smoking, has been eliminated by technology. What about the FDA’s other objection, that state medical marijuana laws somehow undercut the drug-approval process?It is, in a word, nonsense. The FDA tries to bolster its case by characterizing these laws as "making smoked marijuana available for a variety of medical conditions", but they do no such thing. State medical marijuana laws do not authorize marketing, distribution, or sales of marijuana. They simply exempt patients who meet certain conditions (usually a physician recommendation and/or diagnosis with a qualifying condition) from arrest and punishment under state laws that otherwise forbid marijuana possession or cultivation.
Indeed, the lack of a legal means for patients to obtain medical marijuana has been a source of controversy in some states, such as Rhode Island.Does the FDA not understand the difference between licensing a drug for marketing and simply choosing not to arrest individuals who possess it under certain conditions? Does the agency believe that arrest and jail is an appropriate way to deal with a patient’s choice to self-treat with an herbal product not approved as a medicine by the FDA? Do they now want to start jailing the millions of Americans who use ginseng, St. John’s wort, and other herbal products? Of course not. The FDA has jettisoned science, objectivity, and logic to help politicians prop up a morally and scientifically bankrupt policy. And that should make every American very, very nervous.
Bruce Mirken
On April 20, the FDA jumped into the medical marijuana controversy with a statement that was puzzling on many levels and should leave all Americans concerned about the politicization of the agency we depend on to protect our health.The document proclaimed that "no sound scientific studies" support medical use of marijuana and condemned state medical marijuana laws as an effort "to bypass the FDA drug-approval process". The FDA was wrong on both counts. The statement, a one-page press release accompanied by no references or documentation, was an odd beast. It cited neither new scientific data nor any new analysis of old data.
The FDA did not, as it often does when addressing difficult issues, convene an advisory committee of independent experts. Indeed, the document appeared to be nothing but a rehash of the government’s long-standing position. It also conveniently ignored 5,000 years of accumulated evidence of marijuana’s medical benefit. Rather than describe that evidence my self as spokesman for the organization that led the campaigns for America’s three newest medical marijuana laws, I might not be seen as an unbiased observerlet’s consider what impartial experts have found. DEA Hearing In response to a petition asking for marijuana to be moved from Schedule I of the federal Controlled Substances Act, which bars physician prescriptions, to a schedule that would allow it to be legally prescribed, Drug Enforcement Administration Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young conducted extensive hearings in 1987 and 1988so extensive that the transcripts fill 15 volumes. Young found "uncontroverted" evidence that marijuana relieves nausea and vomiting caused by cancer chemotherapy and is an accepted treatment for these conditions. He also found strong evidence for marijuana’s benefit and acceptance as a treatment for multiple sclerosis, concluding, "The evidence in this record clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people and doing so with safety under medical supervision. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary, and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record".
Judge Young’s decision was overruled by political appointees at the DEA, who kept marijuana in Schedule I. Eventually, an appeals court ruled that federal law allowed the DEA to ignore Young’s findings.In 1995, the American Public Health Association (APHA) adopted a policy resolution on medical marijuana, citing nearly two dozen studies reporting marijuana’s safety and efficacy against pain, nausea, vomiting, seizures, and other symptoms. The APHA urged the government "to expeditiously" make marijuana available to patients through the Compassionate Investigational New Drug program that the first Bush administration had closed to new applicants in 1991, declaring, "Greater harm is caused by the legal consequences of [marijuana’s] prohibition than possible risks of medicinal use".
Like Young, the APHA went out of its way to discuss marijuana’s remarkable safety record, noting, "Marijuana has an extremely wide acute margin of safety for use under medical supervision and cannot cause lethal reactions". In contrast, acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, causes about 500 U.S. deaths from acute liver failure each year.Institute of Medicine ReportA year later, California passed the first effective state medical marijuana law, Proposition 215, despite opposition from the Clinton administration. Clinton’s drug czar, Gen. Barry McCaffrey, asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to review the existing scientific data on marijuana’s therapeutic uses. Its report, "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base", issued in early 1999, is available at books.nap.edu/html/marimed.Federal officials have alternated between two strategies for dealing with the IOM report. Sometimes, as in the recent FDA statement, they simply act as if it never happened. At other times, they quote out-of-context snippets that seem to support the government’s position that whole marijuana has no place in medicine, even though isolated or synthesized versions of marijuana’s active components, called cannabinoids, might while ignoring passages that contradict official policy. The IOM did indeed state that "smoked marijuana is a crude delivery system that also delivers harmful substances", and thus, "there is little future in smoked marijuana as a medically approved medication". To solve this problem, the report urged "development of a nonsmoked, rapid-onset delivery system for cannabinoid drugs".
Nevertheless, the report noted extensive documentation of therapeutic benefits from marijuana. "Nausea, appetite loss, pain, and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting and all can be mitigated by marijuana. Scientific data indicate the potential therapeutic value of cannabinoid drugs, primarily THC, for pain relief, control of nausea and vomiting, and appetite stimulation". And while urging development of marijuana-derived pharmaceuticals, the IOM added pointedly, "Patients who are currently suffering from debilitating conditions, unrelieved by legally available drugs and who might find relief with smoked marijuana, will find little comfort in the promise of a better drug 10 years from now".Delivery SystemThe sort of nonsmoked, rapid-onset delivery system the IOM called for exists today. Vaporizers take advantage of the fact that cannabinoids vaporize at a temperature below the temperature at which the plant material starts to burn. By heating marijuana to the proper temperature, a vaporizer allows inhalation of the cannabinoids, providing the rapid onset of action and easy dose titration that patients prefer without the hazardous combustion products contained in smoke.
A study of one such product, the Volcano, published in the June 2006 Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, concludes with language startlingly parallel to the IOM’s "What is currently needed for optimal use of medicinal cannabinoids is a feasible, nonsmoked, rapid-onset delivery system. With the Volcano, a safe and effective cannabinoid delivery system appears to be available to patients".Multiple independent analyses (many more than can be listed here) have found that marijuana has medicinal value, and the biggest objection to its use, the pulmonary risks of smoking, has been eliminated by technology. What about the FDA’s other objection, that state medical marijuana laws somehow undercut the drug-approval process?It is, in a word, nonsense. The FDA tries to bolster its case by characterizing these laws as "making smoked marijuana available for a variety of medical conditions", but they do no such thing. State medical marijuana laws do not authorize marketing, distribution, or sales of marijuana. They simply exempt patients who meet certain conditions (usually a physician recommendation and/or diagnosis with a qualifying condition) from arrest and punishment under state laws that otherwise forbid marijuana possession or cultivation.
Indeed, the lack of a legal means for patients to obtain medical marijuana has been a source of controversy in some states, such as Rhode Island.Does the FDA not understand the difference between licensing a drug for marketing and simply choosing not to arrest individuals who possess it under certain conditions? Does the agency believe that arrest and jail is an appropriate way to deal with a patient’s choice to self-treat with an herbal product not approved as a medicine by the FDA? Do they now want to start jailing the millions of Americans who use ginseng, St. John’s wort, and other herbal products? Of course not. The FDA has jettisoned science, objectivity, and logic to help politicians prop up a morally and scientifically bankrupt policy. And that should make every American very, very nervous.
Wild Foods
--- cures for common diseases, preventative medicine, support for mental and spiritual well-being and building long-lasting health and vitality for the future.
"[Science has made] plants grow bigger and faster, but they can't keep up in the nutrient department,"
--- Donald R. Davis, PhD. - Head of Study - University of Texas at Austin in his statement about commercially grown foods.
"From man's earliest emergence as a thinking animal, he has turned to the Plant Kingdom for his foods, his medicines and most of his other necessities."
--- Richard E. Schultes, Ph.D. - Director of Harvard Botanical Museum and Rain-forest Explorer.
The evidence is clear that wild foods grown on uncontaminated, virgin soils are the most nutrient dense and contain the most complete forms of health-building nourishment for body and mind.
NOTE: When the body and mind are nourished with high quality, nutrient-dense foods and herbs then common ailments - like depression, arthritis, heart-disease, diabetes, PMS, hormonal-imbalances, age spots, intestinal distress, emotional and mental disturbances along with a host of other diseases - are hugely improved and even completely eliminated. Why? Because the body has what it needs to do its natural job of repairing and regeneration.
Once the body is in balance and harmony, then emotional and spiritual peace, strength and inner contentment are far more easily reached and longer lasting.
The Wild Food Advantage
Nutrients we need for a healthy body and mind are seriously lacking in commercially grown crops which are mass cultivated on over-used and depleted soils.
Christian Drapeau, M.Sc. holds an advanced degree in Neurophysiology from the prestigious McGill University and has studied both the effects of commercially grown foods and the medicinal properties of wild foods since 1994. His findings - in collaboration with other universities - have been published in numerous scientific journals. He is a well loved lecturer on this topic.
Click here to read Drapeau's commentary on wild foods and herbs from the Amazon:
The Wild Food Advantage
To order wild foods & herbs from the Amazon rainforest . . .
(* money-back guarantee ... no questions asked ... for up to a full year after purchase!)
. . . click here: http://eco-biz.amazonherb.net/Default.aspx
Most people don't know ...
... that the foods we purchase in the produce department of our local grocery store (lettuce, tomatoes, squash, apples, carrots, etc) are hybrid varieties originally developed from wild species of plants, flowers and herbs that grew naturally in the forests, meadows, along river banks and grassland plains.
These wild foods eventually became commercially domesticated by way of modern technologies and forced to grow larger, faster and more uniform with the sole purpose of producing the results that would gain the most profit and meet the growing demands of increasing populations.
However, the down side of mass produced, hybridized crops is that the hybrids are not as nutrient dense, not as disease-resistant and not as rich in bio-energetic qualities as the original wild varieties. Add over-used and depleted soils to the equation and the quality of commercially produced fruits and vegetables drops even further.
Since the beginning of time, our bodies have preferred plant-based foods as their primary source of nourishment. To me, this is only common-sense! However, most people truly do not realize that when they choose nutrient-poor, modern day foods - along with pharmacuetical medications and drugs - to satisfy their needs that they are seriously compromising their body's immune system and degrading their ability to achieve and sustain good health and clear mind well into their elder years.
Wild foods provide the all-important elements required for optimum health.
Of all the wild places on planet earth, the Rainforests contain all the nutrient-rich and uncontaminated plants and herbs that enable us to meet our requirement for concentrated whole foods that are easily absorbed by the body. The Amazon Rainforest has the greatest variety of these foods than any other location in the world.
Further below you will meet Dwight Bartlett of Portland, Oregon - a Pharmacist of nearly 40-years - and see what a medical professional has to say about modern day health and wild foods.
Its interesting that a conventionally trained medical pharmacist no longer relies on medications or drugs to cope with ailments - and instead goes around recommending wild foods and herbs! What does he know that the rest of us may benefit from?
He traveled to the Amazon Rainforest to see what the Amazon Herb and wild food project was all about (see the great photo below with Dwight and the local tribal medicine man).
Recently, Dwight (retired from 40 years as a Pharmacist [photo below] ) has brought these herbs and plants back into my life again and THIS time I'm paying attention (I didn't before this because I was too busy. Whoa ... was that a major goof or what?)
To date, this group - which came to form an eco-friendly company (and award-winning, too) - has already helped save over 300,000 acres of Rainforest land, as well as assisting the Amazon tribal peoples in giving them a bright future.
Once at the website, look around at all the info so you can get a really good idea of what this eco-friendly company is about including its humanitarian and visionary philosophies. You may particularly enjoy the story about "Amazon John" and how he built a 27 year relationship with the tribal peoples. He eventually developed a system of harvesting and producing supplements in which the tribal peoples get paid well for their efforts which allows them to sustain their culture and protect the rainforest.
After you've examined the educational material and background of these efforts, you may find yourself impressed with the high quality, integrity and generosity - and that all items come with a money back guarantee - no questions asked - for up to a full year after purchase That's how good these foods are. They will meet and exceed your highest expectations. Its guaranteed!
Below is Dwight's important, professional viewpoint. If you decide to become involved or to simply try one or two items, you will receive an e-mail from Dwight with some helpful recommendations.
A Message from Dwight Bartlett - Pharmacist for nearly 40 years (ret.)
Welcome! I'm pictured here in 1999 with a true 'medicine man' from one of about 14 Amazon Basin tribes who are Indigenous Partners with us. The culture of these tribes is sustained by the support coming from Amazon Herb products: they wild-harvest "bio-energetic" plants which are then sent to this side of the globe for use in optimizing our health.
After having been on the "front line" of public health for almost 40 years as a Pharmacist (now retired), I state with complete confidence that this line of herbal nutrition is above and beyond anything else I have ever researched.
At the heart of Amazon Herb Co. products are God-Given herbs and plants from Mother Nature's most vibrant "laboratory" - the Amazon Rainforest herbs and wild foods - which are never touched by chemicals, nor manipulated or fractionated; they are sustainably harvested and undergo an ancient "plant alchemical" preparation procedure (spagyric processing) that preserves the total essence of the plant. Thus, these vibrant and nutrient-dense products are then delivered to your door.
As environmental awareness continues to grow globally and as increasing efforts are put forth to protect the Rainforest (the "Lungs of the Planet") - as well as preserve the cultures of indigenous peoples - you may be drawn to participate in one of two ways:
First - like many of my clients - you may take these uniquely effective herbs on a daily basis, knowing that your purchases contribute both directly and indirectly to the preservation of the Amazon Rainforest.
Second - you may choose to join me as an Eco-Enterpreneur. The "Ecology Business" developer takes this message to others which results in: [1] overall positive health experiences; [2] the protection of even more Amazon Basin acreage and its inhabitants; and [3] an additional stream of [residual] income for yourself, so that you too may decide to "give-back."
Having investigated many companies and product lines, I am confident that you, too, will discover the sincerity, integrity and generosity of Amazon Herb Company and its founder - my dear friend - "Amazon John" Easterling. I urge you to click on and read through the website, which reveals the company's global mission. Hopefully you will realize the richness within this involvement: its humanitarian aspect; its environmental aspect (making the Rainforest more valuable alive than dead); its physical health aspect; its financial health aspect.....all in an attractive package that offers you the generosity of 1) no first-order fees 2) free educational material included with initial order 3) bonus coupons available with each order 4) and a liberal and sincere money-back guarantee for up to one year after purchase.
Which products to try first? A good place to start is the "Rainforest Health Pak" which provides a comprehensive basic program and comes with free products (among the options within the "Health Pak" I suggest Mint-Fiberzon powder, Treasure Tea, & capsules for your initial order).
Before your order arrives, expect an email from me, with dosage suggestions. As the retired pharmacist who has nearly seven years experience with Amazon Herb Company and its products, I have seen vast improvements in chronic health conditions as well as many other health benefits as a direct result of these products which are so readily accepted as 'natural' by our bodies.
As your preventative medicine "health insurance", let these "beyond-organic" wild foods - grown in virgin soils from earth's most important Rainforest - serve you well.
Wishing you the best of health ... Dwight Bartlett
Visit the site and have a look around ...
http://eco-biz.amazonherb.net/Default.aspx
"[Science has made] plants grow bigger and faster, but they can't keep up in the nutrient department,"
--- Donald R. Davis, PhD. - Head of Study - University of Texas at Austin in his statement about commercially grown foods.
"From man's earliest emergence as a thinking animal, he has turned to the Plant Kingdom for his foods, his medicines and most of his other necessities."
--- Richard E. Schultes, Ph.D. - Director of Harvard Botanical Museum and Rain-forest Explorer.
The evidence is clear that wild foods grown on uncontaminated, virgin soils are the most nutrient dense and contain the most complete forms of health-building nourishment for body and mind.
NOTE: When the body and mind are nourished with high quality, nutrient-dense foods and herbs then common ailments - like depression, arthritis, heart-disease, diabetes, PMS, hormonal-imbalances, age spots, intestinal distress, emotional and mental disturbances along with a host of other diseases - are hugely improved and even completely eliminated. Why? Because the body has what it needs to do its natural job of repairing and regeneration.
Once the body is in balance and harmony, then emotional and spiritual peace, strength and inner contentment are far more easily reached and longer lasting.
The Wild Food Advantage
Nutrients we need for a healthy body and mind are seriously lacking in commercially grown crops which are mass cultivated on over-used and depleted soils.
Christian Drapeau, M.Sc. holds an advanced degree in Neurophysiology from the prestigious McGill University and has studied both the effects of commercially grown foods and the medicinal properties of wild foods since 1994. His findings - in collaboration with other universities - have been published in numerous scientific journals. He is a well loved lecturer on this topic.
Click here to read Drapeau's commentary on wild foods and herbs from the Amazon:
The Wild Food Advantage
To order wild foods & herbs from the Amazon rainforest . . .
(* money-back guarantee ... no questions asked ... for up to a full year after purchase!)
. . . click here: http://eco-biz.amazonherb.net/Default.aspx
Most people don't know ...
... that the foods we purchase in the produce department of our local grocery store (lettuce, tomatoes, squash, apples, carrots, etc) are hybrid varieties originally developed from wild species of plants, flowers and herbs that grew naturally in the forests, meadows, along river banks and grassland plains.
These wild foods eventually became commercially domesticated by way of modern technologies and forced to grow larger, faster and more uniform with the sole purpose of producing the results that would gain the most profit and meet the growing demands of increasing populations.
However, the down side of mass produced, hybridized crops is that the hybrids are not as nutrient dense, not as disease-resistant and not as rich in bio-energetic qualities as the original wild varieties. Add over-used and depleted soils to the equation and the quality of commercially produced fruits and vegetables drops even further.
Since the beginning of time, our bodies have preferred plant-based foods as their primary source of nourishment. To me, this is only common-sense! However, most people truly do not realize that when they choose nutrient-poor, modern day foods - along with pharmacuetical medications and drugs - to satisfy their needs that they are seriously compromising their body's immune system and degrading their ability to achieve and sustain good health and clear mind well into their elder years.
Wild foods provide the all-important elements required for optimum health.
Of all the wild places on planet earth, the Rainforests contain all the nutrient-rich and uncontaminated plants and herbs that enable us to meet our requirement for concentrated whole foods that are easily absorbed by the body. The Amazon Rainforest has the greatest variety of these foods than any other location in the world.
Further below you will meet Dwight Bartlett of Portland, Oregon - a Pharmacist of nearly 40-years - and see what a medical professional has to say about modern day health and wild foods.
Its interesting that a conventionally trained medical pharmacist no longer relies on medications or drugs to cope with ailments - and instead goes around recommending wild foods and herbs! What does he know that the rest of us may benefit from?
He traveled to the Amazon Rainforest to see what the Amazon Herb and wild food project was all about (see the great photo below with Dwight and the local tribal medicine man).
Recently, Dwight (retired from 40 years as a Pharmacist [photo below] ) has brought these herbs and plants back into my life again and THIS time I'm paying attention (I didn't before this because I was too busy. Whoa ... was that a major goof or what?)
To date, this group - which came to form an eco-friendly company (and award-winning, too) - has already helped save over 300,000 acres of Rainforest land, as well as assisting the Amazon tribal peoples in giving them a bright future.
Once at the website, look around at all the info so you can get a really good idea of what this eco-friendly company is about including its humanitarian and visionary philosophies. You may particularly enjoy the story about "Amazon John" and how he built a 27 year relationship with the tribal peoples. He eventually developed a system of harvesting and producing supplements in which the tribal peoples get paid well for their efforts which allows them to sustain their culture and protect the rainforest.
After you've examined the educational material and background of these efforts, you may find yourself impressed with the high quality, integrity and generosity - and that all items come with a money back guarantee - no questions asked - for up to a full year after purchase That's how good these foods are. They will meet and exceed your highest expectations. Its guaranteed!
Below is Dwight's important, professional viewpoint. If you decide to become involved or to simply try one or two items, you will receive an e-mail from Dwight with some helpful recommendations.
A Message from Dwight Bartlett - Pharmacist for nearly 40 years (ret.)
Welcome! I'm pictured here in 1999 with a true 'medicine man' from one of about 14 Amazon Basin tribes who are Indigenous Partners with us. The culture of these tribes is sustained by the support coming from Amazon Herb products: they wild-harvest "bio-energetic" plants which are then sent to this side of the globe for use in optimizing our health.
After having been on the "front line" of public health for almost 40 years as a Pharmacist (now retired), I state with complete confidence that this line of herbal nutrition is above and beyond anything else I have ever researched.
At the heart of Amazon Herb Co. products are God-Given herbs and plants from Mother Nature's most vibrant "laboratory" - the Amazon Rainforest herbs and wild foods - which are never touched by chemicals, nor manipulated or fractionated; they are sustainably harvested and undergo an ancient "plant alchemical" preparation procedure (spagyric processing) that preserves the total essence of the plant. Thus, these vibrant and nutrient-dense products are then delivered to your door.
As environmental awareness continues to grow globally and as increasing efforts are put forth to protect the Rainforest (the "Lungs of the Planet") - as well as preserve the cultures of indigenous peoples - you may be drawn to participate in one of two ways:
First - like many of my clients - you may take these uniquely effective herbs on a daily basis, knowing that your purchases contribute both directly and indirectly to the preservation of the Amazon Rainforest.
Second - you may choose to join me as an Eco-Enterpreneur. The "Ecology Business" developer takes this message to others which results in: [1] overall positive health experiences; [2] the protection of even more Amazon Basin acreage and its inhabitants; and [3] an additional stream of [residual] income for yourself, so that you too may decide to "give-back."
Having investigated many companies and product lines, I am confident that you, too, will discover the sincerity, integrity and generosity of Amazon Herb Company and its founder - my dear friend - "Amazon John" Easterling. I urge you to click on and read through the website, which reveals the company's global mission. Hopefully you will realize the richness within this involvement: its humanitarian aspect; its environmental aspect (making the Rainforest more valuable alive than dead); its physical health aspect; its financial health aspect.....all in an attractive package that offers you the generosity of 1) no first-order fees 2) free educational material included with initial order 3) bonus coupons available with each order 4) and a liberal and sincere money-back guarantee for up to one year after purchase.
Which products to try first? A good place to start is the "Rainforest Health Pak" which provides a comprehensive basic program and comes with free products (among the options within the "Health Pak" I suggest Mint-Fiberzon powder, Treasure Tea, & capsules for your initial order).
Before your order arrives, expect an email from me, with dosage suggestions. As the retired pharmacist who has nearly seven years experience with Amazon Herb Company and its products, I have seen vast improvements in chronic health conditions as well as many other health benefits as a direct result of these products which are so readily accepted as 'natural' by our bodies.
As your preventative medicine "health insurance", let these "beyond-organic" wild foods - grown in virgin soils from earth's most important Rainforest - serve you well.
Wishing you the best of health ... Dwight Bartlett
Visit the site and have a look around ...
http://eco-biz.amazonherb.net/Default.aspx
THE FUTURE OF MARIJUANA LAWS
Advances in neurobiology are redefining the scientific basis for addiction. These advances have important ramifications for addiction treatment, and for the treatment of numerous organic diseases and conditions. More importantly for marijuana users, these advances in neurobiology will ultimately force changes in the law.
The law is constantly being modified in response to technological changes. The passage of the Controlled Substances Act in 1972 was in part due to a greater understanding of drug abuse brought about by the medical research of the time.
The law instituted a policy by which regulation and criminal penalties regarding controlled substances were to be correlated with the harmfulness of the substance. Specifically, the law lists the "actual or relative potential for abuse" as the first matter to be considered in determining the appropriate scheduling of a drug. Schedule I is for drugs which have a "high potential for abuse."
While the scheduling of marijuana and its subsequent availability for research and medical use was the subject of a 22-year unsuccessful court battle spearheaded by NORML, the question of marijuana's abuse potential was never addressed during the litigation and related proceedings. The suit over medical marijuana sought to reschedule marijuana as a Schedule II drug, which also implies a "high potential for abuse." This made the abuse question irrelevant to the court proceedings.
However, the abuse question is the pre-eminent issue in attempts to reform marijuana laws, and it is the weak link upon which the entirety of marijuana prohibition rests. The most recent research indicates that marijuana does not have a high potential for abuse, especially relative to other scheduled drugs such as heroin, cocaine, sedatives and amphetamines.
The medical-marijuana petition was rejected by the administrator of the DEA because of the lack of scientific studies detailing marijuana's medical value. The court appeal essentially concerned whether or not this was a reasonable standard in light of the government's historic disinterest in funding such studies. While courts have ruled that DEA can rely on research studies, or the lack thereof, in its decision-making about the scheduling of marijuana, they have not ruled on the actual issues which determine the proper legal scheduling of marijuana.
The discovery of cannabinoid receptor sites, and their relevance to the understanding of the pharmacology of THC in the brain, provides the basis for a new challenge to the legitimacy of marijuana's Schedule I status, a pivotal event in marijuana's eventual legalization.
The law is constantly being modified in response to technological changes. The passage of the Controlled Substances Act in 1972 was in part due to a greater understanding of drug abuse brought about by the medical research of the time.
The law instituted a policy by which regulation and criminal penalties regarding controlled substances were to be correlated with the harmfulness of the substance. Specifically, the law lists the "actual or relative potential for abuse" as the first matter to be considered in determining the appropriate scheduling of a drug. Schedule I is for drugs which have a "high potential for abuse."
While the scheduling of marijuana and its subsequent availability for research and medical use was the subject of a 22-year unsuccessful court battle spearheaded by NORML, the question of marijuana's abuse potential was never addressed during the litigation and related proceedings. The suit over medical marijuana sought to reschedule marijuana as a Schedule II drug, which also implies a "high potential for abuse." This made the abuse question irrelevant to the court proceedings.
However, the abuse question is the pre-eminent issue in attempts to reform marijuana laws, and it is the weak link upon which the entirety of marijuana prohibition rests. The most recent research indicates that marijuana does not have a high potential for abuse, especially relative to other scheduled drugs such as heroin, cocaine, sedatives and amphetamines.
The medical-marijuana petition was rejected by the administrator of the DEA because of the lack of scientific studies detailing marijuana's medical value. The court appeal essentially concerned whether or not this was a reasonable standard in light of the government's historic disinterest in funding such studies. While courts have ruled that DEA can rely on research studies, or the lack thereof, in its decision-making about the scheduling of marijuana, they have not ruled on the actual issues which determine the proper legal scheduling of marijuana.
The discovery of cannabinoid receptor sites, and their relevance to the understanding of the pharmacology of THC in the brain, provides the basis for a new challenge to the legitimacy of marijuana's Schedule I status, a pivotal event in marijuana's eventual legalization.
C-51 has gone through Second Reading
C-51 has gone through Second Reading
As with cannabis and codex: evil legal deceptions!
Friday April 25th, 2008
ALERT about law to restrict vitamins and supplements.
Bill C-51 has already gone through Second Reading in Parliament:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/LEGISINFO/index.asp?Language=E&Session=15&query=5420&List=toc
April 8, 2008,
Canadian Minister of Health introduced Bill C-51 in the House of Commons.
Public pressure against this law might have a chance of working.
What You Can Do To Protect Your Rights?
Perhaps contact local MP to
voice objections to this Bill?
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseOfCommons/MemberByPostalCode.aspx?Menu=HOC
Even a significant group of Conservative MPs
are getting enough pressure from their people
to put some pressure upon the Health Minister?
This Bill proposes changes to the current Food and Drugs Act.
Without adequate action from concerned citizens,
this Bill might soon become law inside Canada ...
You may lose your access to dietary supplements.
For BACKGROUND, see this 40 minute video:
Nutricide - Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634&hl=en-CA
For another overview from Dr. Rath, see:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/thebigpicture.php
Or, watch the "We become Silent" - Documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOOMwOyBSCU
Protect Your Constitutional Rights
Health Canada Needs Checks and Balances
After Bill C-51, Health Canada will be able to move the goalposts anywhere it likes. The standards of evidence, the burden of proof, the review process, the reviewers, enforcement, investigation - everything can be moved around and manipulated at Health Canada’s enhanced discretion. These powers have always been abused. Health Canada gets to make the rules, hires ringers’ as reviewers and then uses selected enforcement to punish or reward. The whole system is stage managed to ‘appear’ as formally correct but in practice it is rotten and corrupt. Bill C-51 will make sure that the regulation of natural ingredients by Health Canada will become just as debased as they have become for pharmaceutical medicaments what with the endemic payoffs, conflicts of interest, corruption, malpractice, bad ethics and outright lying that characterizes that field. And thanks to Bill C-51, Health Canada will have the means to subject Canadians to the additional restrictions against natural health products that derive from the Codex Alimentarius.
Consider How Bill C-51 Would Affect You:
* Many natural health products that have been sold in Canada for decades would become unavailable, and remaining products would cost much more (Sections 13 & 18.7);
* The government could designate any natural health product a prescription drug, making it available by prescription only (Section 15.1(4));
* You could be fined thousands of dollars or go to jail for giving your child or friend a natural health product (Sections 31 & 3(3) – expanded definition of “sell”);
* Researchers would lose academic freedom: they could not study the beneficial effects of natural health products without first getting the government’s permission (Sections 3(6) & 18.2);
* International laws that restrict access to natural health products could be made law in Canada without the approval of elected officials or any debate in the House of Commons (Sections 3(6) & 30(7));
* To enforce this new law, inspectors could enter private property and (Section 23):
o take anything at their discretion;
o never pay the owner for it;
o charge the owner of the property a fee for shipping it to a secure storage unit;
o charge the owner of the property fees for keeping it in storage;
o keep it in storage as long as they want;
and/or
o dispose of it at will.
International trade treaties are being used to advance the profits of corporations, against the interests of most other people. Bill C-51 will be another step towards enabling international regulations to control what kinds of vitamins and herbs Canadians can consume.
The relentless pressure of the people with the most money to campaign for their interests are setting in motion measures that will ensure they will make the greatest amount of profits, by making their products the preferred ones, while others are discriminated against.
There is a clear warning to Canadians that vitamin consumers globally may be effected by the European Food Safety Authority, combined with the European Commission, that will be unleashing the regulations from hell in January, 2009.
Those regulations from hell may make their way into Codex because the EU seems to politically dominate Codex.
Generally, "trade treaties" are for the benefit of investors to obtain profits through their corporations.
Overall, agribusiness is interested in profits, and the power to control culture to maximize profits for the owners of those businesses. It does not care about the health of consumers, nor any other aspect of the long-term future. The strategy of the agribusinesses and pharmaceutical companies etc. is to maximize short-term profits, regardless of any other consequences. Controlling people to benefit shareholders is their primary purpose. Some of the profit made has been systematically used to corrupt the political process, and every aspect of food and drug laws has been corrupted by that funding of the political process, driving vicious spirals of money and political power. Bill C-51 will be another step down that spiral staircase of political corruption taken by professional liars and immaculate hypocrites to actually accomplish the opposite of what they claim they are doing.
Step by step, all controls over foods and drugs are being directed to benefit the pyramidion people at the top of the social pyramid’s fascist plutocracy, while harming everyone else more and more. That fascist plutocracy already controls Canada, and Canada is already integrated as a small component of the global fascist plutocracy.
The worst restrictions anywhere tend to become
the worst restrictions applied everywhere else ...
There may be ’Maximum Safe Upper Levels’
that will be only slight multiples above RDA.
Vitamins may become less available & more expensive.
In a sense, cannabis laws are the most
extreme example of the overall patterns
of political facts demonstrated by Codex.
Unfortunately, there IS a real pattern.
Canada is NOT some genuinely
"free and democratic society."
Canada is a fascist plutocracy.
That is true everywhere one looks,
and the people who controlled all
of the governmental regulations
have a relentless agenda going.
Learn more:
Read Bill C-51?
www.stopc51.com
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=3398126&
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/control_tactics.htm
http://truehope.com/newsletter/editions/online038-October-22-2007.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/023121.html
http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/word/Yaletown.pdf
http://www.healthcoalition.ca/c51.html
http://www.healthcanadaexposed.com/discussion.htm
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/06/19/vitamin-c-about-to-be-made-illegal-in-canada.aspx?source=nl
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/5217.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2LkBuWpwVQ
Note that Bill C-52 may work
in conjunction with Bill C-51.
An overview of evolution of North American diets:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YkNkscBEp0
Larger overview of what is legal and what is not:
what agribusinesses systems DO allow,
while at the same time they also want
to limit the access to natural herbs etc.:
http://www.meat.org/
http://www.themeatrix.com/
What truly controls our food supply
is private profit for a tiny minority.
Every other consideration has been
systematically defeated by a long
history of corrupt political funding.
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_windsor_food.html
THE MOST EXTREME EXAMPLE IS CANNABIS!
Cannabis should be food first.
Hemp seeds are the single best source
of protein, and oil, for human diets ...
However, we all are now actually living inside of a
Bizarro Mirror World, where things are backwards.
In principle, plant-based protein sources might about
10 to 20 times cheaper to produce than animal ones.
That makes one have to wonder what is the BIZARRE
cultural history, that has ended up inverting us all???
It makes one realize how, again and again,
the triumphs of lies and coercions control
how cultures have developed in society.
Cannabis should be food first, & the way
that cannabis food was criminalized is the
most extreme example of general patterns.
The ways people live inside North American civilization
ARE controlled by triumphs of dishonesty, backed up
with violence, & EVERYTHING about how they live
has become integrated aspects of that evil whole.
The lifestyles of the vast majority of people
are due to triumphs of political corruptions.
The single best plant source
for protein and for oil is hemp.
However, hemp was made totally illegal for decades,
and hemp is still suffering from insane restrictions
applied against marijuana to limit growing hemp.
That fits inside of an overall pattern of agribusiness.
Some steps inside that cycle use food as a weapon,
since controlling the food controls people, while
controlling money then controls food & people.
Social facts that cultivating cannabis was criminalized
illustrate these overall patterns of political corruption
where a variety of natural alternatives have systematically
discredited and destroyed, in order to make sure that other
inferior products that could be patented, and monopolized,
were promoted, & given every possible advantage by the
biased systems of the governmental laws and regulations.
The pattern of government subsidies for food production
is an inverted pyramid, where the more healthy the food,
the less likely that kind of food is going to be subsidized.
while the less healthy any "food" may be
the more likely that is to be subsidized.
Prohibition of pot merely takes that trend
to the logical extreme in the Bizarro land.
The single best food for people was criminalized!
Lies and hypocrisy about "safety and public health"
where employed to justify all the legislation which
had mostly opposite effects upon the public health.
The profits made from deceitful monopolies
then return as more political corruption to
enable the funding of the political process
to take another turn to become corrupt.
http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/gm07autumn/health_pork.html
We treat food animals in immoral & inhumane ways.
Animals that we eat for food are now raised
in industrial production places, where they
are fed things which governments prop up.
Factory farms have destroyed family farms.
All together, we end up with very low quality animal food,
that have their unreasonably low price in the supermarket.
People are eating too much animal protein,
due to the systematic political corruption
that has distorted the entire food system.
In general, people could become healthier
IF they ate more plants, and that applies
to eating more plant-based protein & oil.
But, inside a Bizarro Mirror World reality,
everything has been perverted / inverted.
Health Canada has deliberately created
and extremely bad medical marijuana
access program, & they would likely
to do that to other herbs etc. ...
Make no mistake that private profit
for the big corporations is the main
thing which shall guide new laws.
It is the same pattern everywhere one looks!
The unethical treatment of human beings
goes around & around to cause more of
the unethical treatment of all animals.
That entire system is getting sicker ...
Criminalization of cannabis
is the single worst example.
But, criminalizing chamomile,
and so on and so forth, is also
the agenda of the real system.
Governments have gotten away with
huge lies that marijuana was almost
as bad as murder, and therefore, all
cannabis cultivation was criminalized
for sixty years in Canada, and thereby
the single best food source became
unavailable, and is still now expensive,
and of inferior quality, due to it being
restricted by marijuana law madness.
IT ALREADY DID HAPPEN THAT
THE SINGLE BEST PLANT FOR
HUMAN FOOD WAS ILLEGAL!
BE WORRIED THAT PATTERN SHALL
REPEAT ITSELF, AGAIN AND AGAIN!
Codex Alimentarius Commission
As with cannabis and codex: evil legal deceptions!
Friday April 25th, 2008
ALERT about law to restrict vitamins and supplements.
Bill C-51 has already gone through Second Reading in Parliament:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/LEGISINFO/index.asp?Language=E&Session=15&query=5420&List=toc
April 8, 2008,
Canadian Minister of Health introduced Bill C-51 in the House of Commons.
Public pressure against this law might have a chance of working.
What You Can Do To Protect Your Rights?
Perhaps contact local MP to
voice objections to this Bill?
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilations/HouseOfCommons/MemberByPostalCode.aspx?Menu=HOC
Even a significant group of Conservative MPs
are getting enough pressure from their people
to put some pressure upon the Health Minister?
This Bill proposes changes to the current Food and Drugs Act.
Without adequate action from concerned citizens,
this Bill might soon become law inside Canada ...
You may lose your access to dietary supplements.
For BACKGROUND, see this 40 minute video:
Nutricide - Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5266884912495233634&hl=en-CA
For another overview from Dr. Rath, see:
http://www4.dr-rath-foundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/thebigpicture.php
Or, watch the "We become Silent" - Documentary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOOMwOyBSCU
Protect Your Constitutional Rights
Health Canada Needs Checks and Balances
After Bill C-51, Health Canada will be able to move the goalposts anywhere it likes. The standards of evidence, the burden of proof, the review process, the reviewers, enforcement, investigation - everything can be moved around and manipulated at Health Canada’s enhanced discretion. These powers have always been abused. Health Canada gets to make the rules, hires ringers’ as reviewers and then uses selected enforcement to punish or reward. The whole system is stage managed to ‘appear’ as formally correct but in practice it is rotten and corrupt. Bill C-51 will make sure that the regulation of natural ingredients by Health Canada will become just as debased as they have become for pharmaceutical medicaments what with the endemic payoffs, conflicts of interest, corruption, malpractice, bad ethics and outright lying that characterizes that field. And thanks to Bill C-51, Health Canada will have the means to subject Canadians to the additional restrictions against natural health products that derive from the Codex Alimentarius.
Consider How Bill C-51 Would Affect You:
* Many natural health products that have been sold in Canada for decades would become unavailable, and remaining products would cost much more (Sections 13 & 18.7);
* The government could designate any natural health product a prescription drug, making it available by prescription only (Section 15.1(4));
* You could be fined thousands of dollars or go to jail for giving your child or friend a natural health product (Sections 31 & 3(3) – expanded definition of “sell”);
* Researchers would lose academic freedom: they could not study the beneficial effects of natural health products without first getting the government’s permission (Sections 3(6) & 18.2);
* International laws that restrict access to natural health products could be made law in Canada without the approval of elected officials or any debate in the House of Commons (Sections 3(6) & 30(7));
* To enforce this new law, inspectors could enter private property and (Section 23):
o take anything at their discretion;
o never pay the owner for it;
o charge the owner of the property a fee for shipping it to a secure storage unit;
o charge the owner of the property fees for keeping it in storage;
o keep it in storage as long as they want;
and/or
o dispose of it at will.
International trade treaties are being used to advance the profits of corporations, against the interests of most other people. Bill C-51 will be another step towards enabling international regulations to control what kinds of vitamins and herbs Canadians can consume.
The relentless pressure of the people with the most money to campaign for their interests are setting in motion measures that will ensure they will make the greatest amount of profits, by making their products the preferred ones, while others are discriminated against.
There is a clear warning to Canadians that vitamin consumers globally may be effected by the European Food Safety Authority, combined with the European Commission, that will be unleashing the regulations from hell in January, 2009.
Those regulations from hell may make their way into Codex because the EU seems to politically dominate Codex.
Generally, "trade treaties" are for the benefit of investors to obtain profits through their corporations.
Overall, agribusiness is interested in profits, and the power to control culture to maximize profits for the owners of those businesses. It does not care about the health of consumers, nor any other aspect of the long-term future. The strategy of the agribusinesses and pharmaceutical companies etc. is to maximize short-term profits, regardless of any other consequences. Controlling people to benefit shareholders is their primary purpose. Some of the profit made has been systematically used to corrupt the political process, and every aspect of food and drug laws has been corrupted by that funding of the political process, driving vicious spirals of money and political power. Bill C-51 will be another step down that spiral staircase of political corruption taken by professional liars and immaculate hypocrites to actually accomplish the opposite of what they claim they are doing.
Step by step, all controls over foods and drugs are being directed to benefit the pyramidion people at the top of the social pyramid’s fascist plutocracy, while harming everyone else more and more. That fascist plutocracy already controls Canada, and Canada is already integrated as a small component of the global fascist plutocracy.
The worst restrictions anywhere tend to become
the worst restrictions applied everywhere else ...
There may be ’Maximum Safe Upper Levels’
that will be only slight multiples above RDA.
Vitamins may become less available & more expensive.
In a sense, cannabis laws are the most
extreme example of the overall patterns
of political facts demonstrated by Codex.
Unfortunately, there IS a real pattern.
Canada is NOT some genuinely
"free and democratic society."
Canada is a fascist plutocracy.
That is true everywhere one looks,
and the people who controlled all
of the governmental regulations
have a relentless agenda going.
Learn more:
Read Bill C-51?
www.stopc51.com
http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=3398126&
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/control_tactics.htm
http://truehope.com/newsletter/editions/online038-October-22-2007.html
http://www.naturalnews.com/023121.html
http://www.consciousmedianetwork.com/word/Yaletown.pdf
http://www.healthcoalition.ca/c51.html
http://www.healthcanadaexposed.com/discussion.htm
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/06/19/vitamin-c-about-to-be-made-illegal-in-canada.aspx?source=nl
http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/5217.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2LkBuWpwVQ
Note that Bill C-52 may work
in conjunction with Bill C-51.
An overview of evolution of North American diets:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YkNkscBEp0
Larger overview of what is legal and what is not:
what agribusinesses systems DO allow,
while at the same time they also want
to limit the access to natural herbs etc.:
http://www.meat.org/
http://www.themeatrix.com/
What truly controls our food supply
is private profit for a tiny minority.
Every other consideration has been
systematically defeated by a long
history of corrupt political funding.
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_windsor_food.html
THE MOST EXTREME EXAMPLE IS CANNABIS!
Cannabis should be food first.
Hemp seeds are the single best source
of protein, and oil, for human diets ...
However, we all are now actually living inside of a
Bizarro Mirror World, where things are backwards.
In principle, plant-based protein sources might about
10 to 20 times cheaper to produce than animal ones.
That makes one have to wonder what is the BIZARRE
cultural history, that has ended up inverting us all???
It makes one realize how, again and again,
the triumphs of lies and coercions control
how cultures have developed in society.
Cannabis should be food first, & the way
that cannabis food was criminalized is the
most extreme example of general patterns.
The ways people live inside North American civilization
ARE controlled by triumphs of dishonesty, backed up
with violence, & EVERYTHING about how they live
has become integrated aspects of that evil whole.
The lifestyles of the vast majority of people
are due to triumphs of political corruptions.
The single best plant source
for protein and for oil is hemp.
However, hemp was made totally illegal for decades,
and hemp is still suffering from insane restrictions
applied against marijuana to limit growing hemp.
That fits inside of an overall pattern of agribusiness.
Some steps inside that cycle use food as a weapon,
since controlling the food controls people, while
controlling money then controls food & people.
Social facts that cultivating cannabis was criminalized
illustrate these overall patterns of political corruption
where a variety of natural alternatives have systematically
discredited and destroyed, in order to make sure that other
inferior products that could be patented, and monopolized,
were promoted, & given every possible advantage by the
biased systems of the governmental laws and regulations.
The pattern of government subsidies for food production
is an inverted pyramid, where the more healthy the food,
the less likely that kind of food is going to be subsidized.
while the less healthy any "food" may be
the more likely that is to be subsidized.
Prohibition of pot merely takes that trend
to the logical extreme in the Bizarro land.
The single best food for people was criminalized!
Lies and hypocrisy about "safety and public health"
where employed to justify all the legislation which
had mostly opposite effects upon the public health.
The profits made from deceitful monopolies
then return as more political corruption to
enable the funding of the political process
to take another turn to become corrupt.
http://www.pcrm.org/magazine/gm07autumn/health_pork.html
We treat food animals in immoral & inhumane ways.
Animals that we eat for food are now raised
in industrial production places, where they
are fed things which governments prop up.
Factory farms have destroyed family farms.
All together, we end up with very low quality animal food,
that have their unreasonably low price in the supermarket.
People are eating too much animal protein,
due to the systematic political corruption
that has distorted the entire food system.
In general, people could become healthier
IF they ate more plants, and that applies
to eating more plant-based protein & oil.
But, inside a Bizarro Mirror World reality,
everything has been perverted / inverted.
Health Canada has deliberately created
and extremely bad medical marijuana
access program, & they would likely
to do that to other herbs etc. ...
Make no mistake that private profit
for the big corporations is the main
thing which shall guide new laws.
It is the same pattern everywhere one looks!
The unethical treatment of human beings
goes around & around to cause more of
the unethical treatment of all animals.
That entire system is getting sicker ...
Criminalization of cannabis
is the single worst example.
But, criminalizing chamomile,
and so on and so forth, is also
the agenda of the real system.
Governments have gotten away with
huge lies that marijuana was almost
as bad as murder, and therefore, all
cannabis cultivation was criminalized
for sixty years in Canada, and thereby
the single best food source became
unavailable, and is still now expensive,
and of inferior quality, due to it being
restricted by marijuana law madness.
IT ALREADY DID HAPPEN THAT
THE SINGLE BEST PLANT FOR
HUMAN FOOD WAS ILLEGAL!
BE WORRIED THAT PATTERN SHALL
REPEAT ITSELF, AGAIN AND AGAIN!
Codex Alimentarius Commission
20.1.11
A BIBLE STUDY CONCERNING A GOD-GIVEN PLANT MARIJUANA.
Rather than rely on a single text and pretend to defend it as the one true Bible, two different, widely available, and respected Bibles are used to show that the conclusions reached are not a fluke of some spurious translation.
The selection of these versions is arbitrary. Any scholarly study/chain link Bible can be used to reach exactly the same conclusions. These Bible translations were separated by 76 years of intense scholarly research and produced by two independent groups. The two Bibles used for this study are:
The Authorized (King James) Version. Using The Scofield Reference Bible, Copyright 1900,1917 by the Oxford University Press.
The New American Standard Translation. Using the Ryrie Study Bible, Copyright 1976, 1978 by The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Old and New Testament verses are used to show continuity in God's treatment of marijuana. God's mind has not changed.
Primary Old Testament verse is Genesis 1:29. This verse will show us God's intent for all seed-bearing plants, which includes marijuana. Primary New Testament verses are 1 Timothy 4:1-4. These verses show God's contempt and condemnation for those people who are opposed to marijuana in any way.
It is appropriate for us to review these verses in their entirety. For convenience they are reproduced here:
Genesis 1:29. The New American Standard Translation.
Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you."
Genesis 1:29. The Authorized Version.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
1 Timothy 4:1-4. The New American Standard Translation.
4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
4:2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,
4:3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods, which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.
4:4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with gratitude;
1 Timothy 4:1-4. The Authorized Version.
4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
The Bible speaks for itself. It clearly says that God created marijuana for our use and says terrible things about those who seek to command abstinence or advocate abstaining from plants which God has created. Criminal sanctions command abstinence and are extreme examples of advocating abstinence.
Let's step back for a moment and consider several reasonable questions as to whether or not these verses apply to the current situation.
Does Genesis 1:29 apply?
Yes. It reveals God's will for all seed-bearing plants. Marijuana is a seed-bearing plant. This is so important that God put it in the very first chapter of the very first book of the Bible.
Do 1Timothy 4:1-4 apply?
Yes. 1 Tim 4:1 Tells us that these verses are a prediction of future events that will happen in later times. Since 1 Timothy was written about two thousand years ago we are certainly living at a later time. (It is beyond the focus of this study, but many Bible students consider this to also be an end times prophecy. If this is so, it may mean that false teachers are running out of time to repent.)
The linkage of these Old and New Testament passages is not out of context. At 1Tim 4:3 the Ryrie study Bible specifically links to Gen. 1:29. Closely observe that in the Authorized Version the word "meat" is used in both the New and Old testament verses, and that the word "food" is used in both passages in the New American Standard Translation. 1Tim4:3 inexorably locks these verses together.
FOOD a word in Gen1:29 worthy of amplification.
Biblically marijuana is a seed-bearing plant. Botanically marijuana it is a herbaceous annual plant. Botanically and scripturally marijuana is a herb, a food. It is one of the finest of foods. Of all the plants in the world the seed of marijuana is second in protein only to soy beans. Marijuana seeds are the only food that provides essential amino acids and essential fatty acids in the ratio that is optimal for the human body. Humans can and have survived in robust health by eating marijuana seeds. The oil that is pressed from the seed has more polyunsaturated essential fatty acids than any other known oil.
Due to the current ungodly prohibition eating marijuana is not economical, it is prohibitively expensive. If it could be legally grown in a garden, and it is easily grown in the poorest of soils, this God-given food and medicine would be readily available and inexpensive. Any hungry or sick and suffering person that could benefit from it would benefit from it without paying either the exorbitant prices caused by its illegality or caused by pharmaceutical company profits. Pharmaceutical companies have not been able to reproduce the divinely complex chemistry of this holy herb. Drug companies ask astronomical prices for a largely ineffective artificial substitute. Jesus said, "You can not serve God and mammon", (Mat 6:24). Mammon is money. The mammon in marijuana prohibition is greed and profit.
Notice, the only condition placed on the use of this God-given plant is that it be received with gratitude. 1 Tim 4:4 "For everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with gratitude." If you would like to see grateful people, you will find them wherever marijuana has reduced pain, cured blindness, whose tumors have disappeared, whose depression is vanquished, or have just gathered in happiness to share each other's loving company. Jesus said; "by this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another", (John 13:35). Jesus says it is OK to gather in large, loving groups.
Contrary to the contention, "it does not say it is OK to consume it (marijuana) anywhere in scripture". Again review 1Tim4:4. "For everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected." This says it is OK, it is good and is not to be rejected.
There are dozen's, if not hundred's, of references from prestigious scientific and medical researchers that prove this God given plant is good for you. Several marijuana cookbooks are in print. There is a considerable amount of additional information on its nutritional value. If you would like references to any of this material, it will be sent to you.
It's time to finish this study with a parting thought. Jesus said " You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free",(John 8:32). It is the intent of this study to assist our walk along the path of truth and freedom.
The selection of these versions is arbitrary. Any scholarly study/chain link Bible can be used to reach exactly the same conclusions. These Bible translations were separated by 76 years of intense scholarly research and produced by two independent groups. The two Bibles used for this study are:
The Authorized (King James) Version. Using The Scofield Reference Bible, Copyright 1900,1917 by the Oxford University Press.
The New American Standard Translation. Using the Ryrie Study Bible, Copyright 1976, 1978 by The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Old and New Testament verses are used to show continuity in God's treatment of marijuana. God's mind has not changed.
Primary Old Testament verse is Genesis 1:29. This verse will show us God's intent for all seed-bearing plants, which includes marijuana. Primary New Testament verses are 1 Timothy 4:1-4. These verses show God's contempt and condemnation for those people who are opposed to marijuana in any way.
It is appropriate for us to review these verses in their entirety. For convenience they are reproduced here:
Genesis 1:29. The New American Standard Translation.
Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you."
Genesis 1:29. The Authorized Version.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
1 Timothy 4:1-4. The New American Standard Translation.
4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
4:2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,
4:3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods, which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.
4:4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with gratitude;
1 Timothy 4:1-4. The Authorized Version.
4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
The Bible speaks for itself. It clearly says that God created marijuana for our use and says terrible things about those who seek to command abstinence or advocate abstaining from plants which God has created. Criminal sanctions command abstinence and are extreme examples of advocating abstinence.
Let's step back for a moment and consider several reasonable questions as to whether or not these verses apply to the current situation.
Does Genesis 1:29 apply?
Yes. It reveals God's will for all seed-bearing plants. Marijuana is a seed-bearing plant. This is so important that God put it in the very first chapter of the very first book of the Bible.
Do 1Timothy 4:1-4 apply?
Yes. 1 Tim 4:1 Tells us that these verses are a prediction of future events that will happen in later times. Since 1 Timothy was written about two thousand years ago we are certainly living at a later time. (It is beyond the focus of this study, but many Bible students consider this to also be an end times prophecy. If this is so, it may mean that false teachers are running out of time to repent.)
The linkage of these Old and New Testament passages is not out of context. At 1Tim 4:3 the Ryrie study Bible specifically links to Gen. 1:29. Closely observe that in the Authorized Version the word "meat" is used in both the New and Old testament verses, and that the word "food" is used in both passages in the New American Standard Translation. 1Tim4:3 inexorably locks these verses together.
FOOD a word in Gen1:29 worthy of amplification.
Biblically marijuana is a seed-bearing plant. Botanically marijuana it is a herbaceous annual plant. Botanically and scripturally marijuana is a herb, a food. It is one of the finest of foods. Of all the plants in the world the seed of marijuana is second in protein only to soy beans. Marijuana seeds are the only food that provides essential amino acids and essential fatty acids in the ratio that is optimal for the human body. Humans can and have survived in robust health by eating marijuana seeds. The oil that is pressed from the seed has more polyunsaturated essential fatty acids than any other known oil.
Due to the current ungodly prohibition eating marijuana is not economical, it is prohibitively expensive. If it could be legally grown in a garden, and it is easily grown in the poorest of soils, this God-given food and medicine would be readily available and inexpensive. Any hungry or sick and suffering person that could benefit from it would benefit from it without paying either the exorbitant prices caused by its illegality or caused by pharmaceutical company profits. Pharmaceutical companies have not been able to reproduce the divinely complex chemistry of this holy herb. Drug companies ask astronomical prices for a largely ineffective artificial substitute. Jesus said, "You can not serve God and mammon", (Mat 6:24). Mammon is money. The mammon in marijuana prohibition is greed and profit.
Notice, the only condition placed on the use of this God-given plant is that it be received with gratitude. 1 Tim 4:4 "For everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with gratitude." If you would like to see grateful people, you will find them wherever marijuana has reduced pain, cured blindness, whose tumors have disappeared, whose depression is vanquished, or have just gathered in happiness to share each other's loving company. Jesus said; "by this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another", (John 13:35). Jesus says it is OK to gather in large, loving groups.
Contrary to the contention, "it does not say it is OK to consume it (marijuana) anywhere in scripture". Again review 1Tim4:4. "For everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected." This says it is OK, it is good and is not to be rejected.
There are dozen's, if not hundred's, of references from prestigious scientific and medical researchers that prove this God given plant is good for you. Several marijuana cookbooks are in print. There is a considerable amount of additional information on its nutritional value. If you would like references to any of this material, it will be sent to you.
It's time to finish this study with a parting thought. Jesus said " You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free",(John 8:32). It is the intent of this study to assist our walk along the path of truth and freedom.
A BIBLE STUDY CONCERNING A GOD-GIVEN PLANT MARIJUANA.
Rather than rely on a single text and pretend to defend it as the one true Bible, two different, widely available, and respected Bibles are used to show that the conclusions reached are not a fluke of some spurious translation.
The selection of these versions is arbitrary. Any scholarly study/chain link Bible can be used to reach exactly the same conclusions. These Bible translations were separated by 76 years of intense scholarly research and produced by two independent groups. The two Bibles used for this study are:
The Authorized (King James) Version. Using The Scofield Reference Bible, Copyright 1900,1917 by the Oxford University Press.
The New American Standard Translation. Using the Ryrie Study Bible, Copyright 1976, 1978 by The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Old and New Testament verses are used to show continuity in God's treatment of marijuana. God's mind has not changed.
Primary Old Testament verse is Genesis 1:29. This verse will show us God's intent for all seed-bearing plants, which includes marijuana. Primary New Testament verses are 1 Timothy 4:1-4. These verses show God's contempt and condemnation for those people who are opposed to marijuana in any way.
It is appropriate for us to review these verses in their entirety. For convenience they are reproduced here:
Genesis 1:29. The New American Standard Translation.
Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you."
Genesis 1:29. The Authorized Version.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
1 Timothy 4:1-4. The New American Standard Translation.
4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
4:2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,
4:3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods, which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.
4:4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with gratitude;
1 Timothy 4:1-4. The Authorized Version.
4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
The Bible speaks for itself. It clearly says that God created marijuana for our use and says terrible things about those who seek to command abstinence or advocate abstaining from plants which God has created. Criminal sanctions command abstinence and are extreme examples of advocating abstinence.
Let's step back for a moment and consider several reasonable questions as to whether or not these verses apply to the current situation.
Does Genesis 1:29 apply?
Yes. It reveals God's will for all seed-bearing plants. Marijuana is a seed-bearing plant. This is so important that God put it in the very first chapter of the very first book of the Bible.
Do 1Timothy 4:1-4 apply?
Yes. 1 Tim 4:1 Tells us that these verses are a prediction of future events that will happen in later times. Since 1 Timothy was written about two thousand years ago we are certainly living at a later time. (It is beyond the focus of this study, but many Bible students consider this to also be an end times prophecy. If this is so, it may mean that false teachers are running out of time to repent.)
The linkage of these Old and New Testament passages is not out of context. At 1Tim 4:3 the Ryrie study Bible specifically links to Gen. 1:29. Closely observe that in the Authorized Version the word "meat" is used in both the New and Old testament verses, and that the word "food" is used in both passages in the New American Standard Translation. 1Tim4:3 inexorably locks these verses together.
FOOD a word in Gen1:29 worthy of amplification.
Biblically marijuana is a seed-bearing plant. Botanically marijuana it is a herbaceous annual plant. Botanically and scripturally marijuana is a herb, a food. It is one of the finest of foods. Of all the plants in the world the seed of marijuana is second in protein only to soy beans. Marijuana seeds are the only food that provides essential amino acids and essential fatty acids in the ratio that is optimal for the human body. Humans can and have survived in robust health by eating marijuana seeds. The oil that is pressed from the seed has more polyunsaturated essential fatty acids than any other known oil.
Due to the current ungodly prohibition eating marijuana is not economical, it is prohibitively expensive. If it could be legally grown in a garden, and it is easily grown in the poorest of soils, this God-given food and medicine would be readily available and inexpensive. Any hungry or sick and suffering person that could benefit from it would benefit from it without paying either the exorbitant prices caused by its illegality or caused by pharmaceutical company profits. Pharmaceutical companies have not been able to reproduce the divinely complex chemistry of this holy herb. Drug companies ask astronomical prices for a largely ineffective artificial substitute. Jesus said, "You can not serve God and mammon", (Mat 6:24). Mammon is money. The mammon in marijuana prohibition is greed and profit.
Notice, the only condition placed on the use of this God-given plant is that it be received with gratitude. 1 Tim 4:4 "For everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with gratitude." If you would like to see grateful people, you will find them wherever marijuana has reduced pain, cured blindness, whose tumors have disappeared, whose depression is vanquished, or have just gathered in happiness to share each other's loving company. Jesus said; "by this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another", (John 13:35). Jesus says it is OK to gather in large, loving groups.
Contrary to the contention, "it does not say it is OK to consume it (marijuana) anywhere in scripture". Again review 1Tim4:4. "For everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected." This says it is OK, it is good and is not to be rejected.
There are dozen's, if not hundred's, of references from prestigious scientific and medical researchers that prove this God given plant is good for you. Several marijuana cookbooks are in print. There is a considerable amount of additional information on its nutritional value. If you would like references to any of this material, it will be sent to you.
It's time to finish this study with a parting thought. Jesus said " You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free",(John 8:32). It is the intent of this study to assist our walk along the path of truth and freedom.
The selection of these versions is arbitrary. Any scholarly study/chain link Bible can be used to reach exactly the same conclusions. These Bible translations were separated by 76 years of intense scholarly research and produced by two independent groups. The two Bibles used for this study are:
The Authorized (King James) Version. Using The Scofield Reference Bible, Copyright 1900,1917 by the Oxford University Press.
The New American Standard Translation. Using the Ryrie Study Bible, Copyright 1976, 1978 by The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Old and New Testament verses are used to show continuity in God's treatment of marijuana. God's mind has not changed.
Primary Old Testament verse is Genesis 1:29. This verse will show us God's intent for all seed-bearing plants, which includes marijuana. Primary New Testament verses are 1 Timothy 4:1-4. These verses show God's contempt and condemnation for those people who are opposed to marijuana in any way.
It is appropriate for us to review these verses in their entirety. For convenience they are reproduced here:
Genesis 1:29. The New American Standard Translation.
Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you."
Genesis 1:29. The Authorized Version.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
1 Timothy 4:1-4. The New American Standard Translation.
4:1 But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons,
4:2 by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron,
4:3 men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods, which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.
4:4 For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with gratitude;
1 Timothy 4:1-4. The Authorized Version.
4:1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
4:3 Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
4:4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
The Bible speaks for itself. It clearly says that God created marijuana for our use and says terrible things about those who seek to command abstinence or advocate abstaining from plants which God has created. Criminal sanctions command abstinence and are extreme examples of advocating abstinence.
Let's step back for a moment and consider several reasonable questions as to whether or not these verses apply to the current situation.
Does Genesis 1:29 apply?
Yes. It reveals God's will for all seed-bearing plants. Marijuana is a seed-bearing plant. This is so important that God put it in the very first chapter of the very first book of the Bible.
Do 1Timothy 4:1-4 apply?
Yes. 1 Tim 4:1 Tells us that these verses are a prediction of future events that will happen in later times. Since 1 Timothy was written about two thousand years ago we are certainly living at a later time. (It is beyond the focus of this study, but many Bible students consider this to also be an end times prophecy. If this is so, it may mean that false teachers are running out of time to repent.)
The linkage of these Old and New Testament passages is not out of context. At 1Tim 4:3 the Ryrie study Bible specifically links to Gen. 1:29. Closely observe that in the Authorized Version the word "meat" is used in both the New and Old testament verses, and that the word "food" is used in both passages in the New American Standard Translation. 1Tim4:3 inexorably locks these verses together.
FOOD a word in Gen1:29 worthy of amplification.
Biblically marijuana is a seed-bearing plant. Botanically marijuana it is a herbaceous annual plant. Botanically and scripturally marijuana is a herb, a food. It is one of the finest of foods. Of all the plants in the world the seed of marijuana is second in protein only to soy beans. Marijuana seeds are the only food that provides essential amino acids and essential fatty acids in the ratio that is optimal for the human body. Humans can and have survived in robust health by eating marijuana seeds. The oil that is pressed from the seed has more polyunsaturated essential fatty acids than any other known oil.
Due to the current ungodly prohibition eating marijuana is not economical, it is prohibitively expensive. If it could be legally grown in a garden, and it is easily grown in the poorest of soils, this God-given food and medicine would be readily available and inexpensive. Any hungry or sick and suffering person that could benefit from it would benefit from it without paying either the exorbitant prices caused by its illegality or caused by pharmaceutical company profits. Pharmaceutical companies have not been able to reproduce the divinely complex chemistry of this holy herb. Drug companies ask astronomical prices for a largely ineffective artificial substitute. Jesus said, "You can not serve God and mammon", (Mat 6:24). Mammon is money. The mammon in marijuana prohibition is greed and profit.
Notice, the only condition placed on the use of this God-given plant is that it be received with gratitude. 1 Tim 4:4 "For everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected, if it is received with gratitude." If you would like to see grateful people, you will find them wherever marijuana has reduced pain, cured blindness, whose tumors have disappeared, whose depression is vanquished, or have just gathered in happiness to share each other's loving company. Jesus said; "by this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you have love one for another", (John 13:35). Jesus says it is OK to gather in large, loving groups.
Contrary to the contention, "it does not say it is OK to consume it (marijuana) anywhere in scripture". Again review 1Tim4:4. "For everything created by God is good and nothing is to be rejected." This says it is OK, it is good and is not to be rejected.
There are dozen's, if not hundred's, of references from prestigious scientific and medical researchers that prove this God given plant is good for you. Several marijuana cookbooks are in print. There is a considerable amount of additional information on its nutritional value. If you would like references to any of this material, it will be sent to you.
It's time to finish this study with a parting thought. Jesus said " You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free",(John 8:32). It is the intent of this study to assist our walk along the path of truth and freedom.
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