Cannabis

Wasn't talking about you, sorry.

Cycloptichorn

dude.

Chumley, I agree with most of what you say. Pot use definitely doesn't deserve 10 to 2o. However, the saying is true - they don't call it dope for nothing. Then again, it doesn't hurt to space out every once in a while. Myself though, I do neither alcohol or pot - those days were all a lifetime ago - 20 years and 27 years respectively.

Smoken like a true pacifist.

An acre of hemp produces more paper than an acre of trees

For thousands of years, until 1883, hemp was the world’s largest agricultural crop, from which the majority of fiber, fabric, soap, lighting oil, paper, incense, and medicines were produced. In addition, it was a primary source of essential food oil and protein for humans and animals. Hemp seeds contain all the essential amino acids necessary for health. The oil from hemp seeds has the highest percentage of essential fatty acids and the lowest percentage of saturated fats.

An acre of hemp produces more paper than an acre of trees. Paper made from hemp lasts for centuries, compared to 25-80 years for paper made from wood pulp. The US Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper.

Industrial hemp contains less than 1% of THC, the psychoactive component of marijuana (which is also called cannabis). Trying to get high on industrial hemp is akin to trying to get drunk on non-alcohol beer. Hemp was forced from the market in the late 19th century by a campaign launched by newspaper magnates who also held controlling shares in the paper mill and cotton industry. It remains as one of the most scandalous yet least spoken about examples of fraud in world history.

In 1937, Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act which effectively halted hemp production in the United States. It was briefly overridden during the Second World War when overseas supplies dried up but the campaign, called Hemp For Victory, was quickly withdrawn after the war.

Hemp can be grown in virtually any climate or soil condition, and grows extremely fast, yielding up to 4 crops a year. Canada, China and France are major hemp producers. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. But today the United States is the only industrial country in the world where the growing of hemp is prohibited.

Hemp cars

In 1941, the Ford motor company produced an experimental automobile with a plastic body composed of 70% cellulose fibres from hemp. The car body could absorb blows 10 times as great as steel without denting. The car was also designed to run on hemp fuel. Because of the ban on both hemp and alcohol the car was never mass produced. In 2008, Lotus Cars announced they will be using hemp in the production of body panels for their Lotus Eco Elise.

Back in 1966 I drove 2 miles (or more) past a field in Kansas with full blown guard towers about 30 foot off the ground every 1/2 mile or so. The field had razor topped 20 foot fencing with 15 foot high marijuana plants growing inside. This was a US Navy farm for growing hemp to make rope. Yet, you could smoke the whole field and not get high.........

I hope you didn't try Bill.

At the time, I was naive and didn't even realize what I was passing. I was on wheat harvast and my boss told me what it was when we stopped for the evening.

Spiritual institutions used hashish as incense in service - so did most household in olden times. This way the church got it's subjects to return each Sunday.

I believe there's a strong case for it to be legalised, in particular for sufferers of arthritis, MS and rheumatic diseases.
Do I believe it will happen, NO.

it will happen, it is not far away

Not in the backward country I live in.

Don't get me wrong, it will be years - maybe a few decades and not in my lifetime but it will happen. It will probably also be a state question, a few here, a few there, before long, all.

I lived in Amsterdam for 3 years, the difference, I'm sorry I ever left.
Nothing better than on a day off work going to the coffee shop, sitting outside sipping a hot chocolate and smoking a nice joint of sensimilla with no law worries.
Or cycling through Vondel park with the girl on the back of the bike smoking a big spliff.
HEAVEN

I switched to vape this year, it's so much healthier without combustion and tastes a lot better. I have a Da Buddha, a vapir that I gave away (I'd stay away) and want to get a Magic Flight Box (if inconvenience was your impediment check this one out) the next chance I get.

Do you know what cars that dont dent do to the occupants in a crash ?

My understanding was the plastic rope makers lobbied for an end to hemp production.

Northern India and Nepal have these growing by the roadside where the farmers have thrown them out of their fields as a weed.

You were smoking it outside where children can inhale it and be exposed to it. Great idea !

When does the Unmitigated Dumbfuck spell that Tabitha of the East cast on you wear off? Because I can't wait.

Would that be the spell that stops someone from taking drugs ? It is all magic and dreams with you lot isnt it ?

lemme mull this over or not as the case may be, will my posts be simultaneously more and less vapid