>Craig Hueneke said…
8:13 – How can you say that? Have you read the countless reports published by some of the WORLD’S LEADING & MOST RESPECTED doctors and medical organizations showing the findings of use of marijuana for medical use?
In a 1977 publication in the Journal of the American Medical Association, it states that marijuana is less addictive than everyday and readily available items such as cigarettes (by 90% – yes ninety!), followed by alcohol, prescription drugs, household medications like cough medicine and even caffeine.
Also history CLEARLY show us that the only reason marijuana was made illegal was the fact that in the late 1930’s William Randolph Hearst had spent MILLIONS of dollars on a smear campaign against marijuana because hemp, which is the fibers within the cannabis (marijuana)plant, was and still is the fastest growing biomasses known and was found to be a more sustainable and easier way to make paper. This greatly concerned Hearst because he was the largest newspaper publisher in the country and all that newspaper was printed on paper he milled himself from trees. In fear of losing millions in investments in the timber industry, he declared a personal war of which he funded and even paid a few cronies like Harry Anslinger to help destroy the hemp industry by demonizing marijuana as a very dangerous drug.
The funny thing about Anslinger is at the time was the Assistant Prohibition Commissioner and he feared that he would be out of a job in tough times if prohibition ended, so he saw marijuana as the next “booze”. And in fact he was right, because he was made the commissioner of the newly formed Fed. Bureau of Narcotics after prohibition ended.
Hearst’s money and Anslinger’s “unbiased & expert testimony” helped convince Washington D.C. (imagine that..money making a politician do something?!)to pass the Marijuana Stamp Act of 1937.The act demanded that the sale/and possession of marijuana required a tax stamp and for some strange reason no stamps were never produced. The funny thing is that the same thing happened to alcohol and tobacco but those stamps were and still are produced.
So please don’t look at marijuana as the drug your parents told you about, I’m not saying it should be sold to children and as long as it is illegal not used, but trust me when I tell you that there are much more benefits to our health, economy and environment from marijuana than probably 75% of the crap we put in our bodies EVERY DAY.
In one last note, the growing of hemp is still illegal in the U.S. and I bet you can’t guess which country is the largest IMPORTER of hemp?
You got that right… THE UNITED STATES.
So please stop drinking the cool-aide and think about it.
Craig
