Just wrote this long essay on Canadian prohibition

Hey, I just wrote this essay on bullshit prohibiton laws....I don't think even Stephen Harper himself could argue with it. Read, Canadians, if you like. It may provide you reasons to convince others that weed is good.

Marijuanaâ??Legalize it now

As most people know, in most countries of the world, marijuana (or cannabis, as it is known), is an illegal substance. Most people do not question this, and believe that because the government says that marijuana is illegal, it is illegal for a good reason, and the government knows best.
The truth is, the government does not know best. Governments are made up of a group of people with a particular viewpoint about the way society should function, and their opinions are not inherently more correct than that of the average citizen. Let us here abandon the governmentsâ?? opinions and think for ourselves about the issue.
Origins of prohibition:
The first drug to become illegal in Canada was opium in 1908, under the Anti-Opium Act. Why this occurred was that in the previous year, 1907, Canadaâ??s new railroad had been completed and the gold rush was over, and Canadaâ??s majority Caucasian population was angry against Asian immigrants to Canada, whose only purpose before had been, in the eyes of most Canadians of the status quo, to be a supply of cheap labour to work in the most dangerous and unsanitary conditions of the railroad and mines, the industrial equivalent of cannon fodder. The media (controlled by whites, of course), denounced the Asian immigrants, and on September 8, 1907, there was an anti-Asian riot in Vancouver, where an angry white mob broke the windows of and burned many Asian businesses. The Asian businessmen asked the federal government in Ottawa for compensation for the damage, and two of the businessmenâ??only two, out of manyâ??were licensed opium dealers. Ottawa responded by ignoring the racist and unjustifiable nature of the riot, and found an outrageous excuse that the riot was justified because â??white women and girlsâ?� were customers. The government ignored the truth that the riot was about racism, not opium. William Lyon Mackenzie King passed the Anti-Opium Act of 1908, North Americaâ??s first anti-drug law, which was more or less openly racist, as it forbade the sale of opium in Chinese opium dens but allowed it to be continued by white businessmen.
Now we know that Canadian drug prohibition has its roots in discrimination against Chinese businessmen, we can continue.
Cannabis prohibition was very ironically started due in part to Emily Brown, the first woman judge in Canadaâ??s history, and one of the famous five who fought for and won womenâ??s suffrage (the right of Canadian women to vote). This was a woman who had spoken out against the ridiculous status quo and fought politically for freedom, so one would think that she would not be involved in the creation of one of the most ridiculous and oppressive laws in Canadian history.
Emily Brown began writing a series of articles in 1920 called â??The Grave Drug Menace.â?� These tales were mostly racist hypocrisy against the Chinese and their opium dens, but marijuana was also mentioned. Murphy plagiarized scare stories directly from American newspapers, which used cannabis as a scapegoat for basically any crime committed in that nation. Prime Minister Mackenzie King and Murphy both had seen opium as a â??tool the dark races used to seduce white girlsâ?�, and marijuana was simply added to the list. The Canadian people had never heard of â??marijuanaâ?�, but had always known it as cannabis, a medical plant (Many years ago, Queen Victoria had been prescribed cannabis by her doctor for her menstrual pains). Canadians therefore did not know what they were dealing with, and the government used propaganda and lies about above-said dark seduction of white women to scare Canadians into supporting its prohibition.
John D. Rockefeller, Sr. was a powerful American businessman in the oil industry, who also had large Canadian investments in synthetic medicine. Since cannabis was a natural medicine, he saw it as an opponent to synthetic medicine and a threat to his investments. Not only that, but hemp (made naturally from cannabis), was his natural competitor for the fuel market in North America. Cannabis was not a good thing for Rockefellerâ??s personal interests, and Rockefeller was a powerful man who had influence over Mackenzie King since 1915, when he was not yet prime minister. Encouraged from Rockefellerâ??s influence and Emily Murphyâ??s writings, cannabis was outlawed in Canada in 1923 with no parliamentary debate.
Now we understand that cannabis prohibition in Canada was the direct result of racism, hypocrisy, personal business interests, corporate control over government, propaganda, scare tactics, misinformation and ignorance, we can continue.
Continuance of prohibition
Sadly, people often have the tendency to believe that legal and illegal define right and wrong, with no questions asked. This was the case for many years. In the 1960s, a hippie counterculture emerged that advocated peace, free love, and psychoactive drug use. Though many claimed and felt that cannabis was an enlightening tool that gave the mind an unspoken clarity, a new wave of conservative opposition to the plant resurfaced. Cannabis was more hated than ever by those in power, but it was not the plant itself that was hated, it was the fact that it was a symbol of the hated counterculture, and they felt it encouraged people to question authority and live a nontraditional lifestyle. Once again, the government and the average upper and middle class people had found another group of people to persecute, with cannabis as a symbol of it.
Both the counterculture and the authoritarians have existed in varying forms ever since, and other than the people who have had the sense to question laws, the majority of people have blindly and obediently followed the status quo.
Now we understand that prohibition continues to be a form of discrimination against cultural groups that are disliked by those higher up, we can continue.
Given reasons for prohibition
Ask any government official or conservative or mainstream person why weed is illegal and they say â??because itâ??s bad for you.â?� However, medical studies have shown that possible long-term health effects are minimal at best. Not only that, but it has been proven to have great medical value to patients of AIDS, cancer, and other illnesses. On a lesser level it can also relieve stress and cure common annoyances like headaches. Many people use it for spiritual purposes, claiming that it brings them in touch with something higher.
If you were to poise these contradictions to a prohibitionist, he would probably splutter for a while and then come up with, â??Well, itâ??s a gateway drug. You take one toke and youâ??ll be a heroin addict before you know it.â?�
Based on the data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), formerly named the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse, by SAMSHA, the percentage of those who have ever tried marijuana and then ended up using heroin once per month is around 1 in 1000. To explain this further, since the estimated number of monthly heroin users in the United Status in 2001 is 100,000, that is the maximum number of people who can have gone on to use heroin regularly after trying cannabis. Since there are an estimated 83 million people in the US who have ever tried cannabis, this works out to 0.12% (100,000 / 83,300,000). Well, thatâ??s another myth torn to shreds.
Also, let us look at alcohol and cigarettes. Both of these drugs are legal, yet they have both been medically proven to have potentially severe health risks. Both are potentially addictive (marijuana has been shown to not be; daily users who stop suddenly can at the most experience mild nausea and insomnia for a few days at most). Alcoholism causes thousands of deaths per year, yet there has not been one medically recorded marijuana death in the last century. Drinking in excess can result in alcohol poisoning and possible death, whereas a cannabis overdose is a physical impossibility (a 165 lb. man would have to ingest all the THC in twenty-one joints all in one hit). Alcohol is correlated with an increase in volatile and violent behaviour, yet cannabis produces a mellow and peaceable feeling.
Why, then, are alcohol and cigarettes legal substances, but a substance that is many times less harmful and addictive is not? It is because alcohol and cigarettes are an accepted part of North American culture; fine lords and ladies have historically always drank and smoked. Society can accept tradition, but not a free-thinking counterculture. Also, booze and smokes are heavily taxed, and the government can make money off of them. Why else do you think you need a license to produce alcohol? The government cannot make money off of private plants grown in somebodyâ??s house, therefore there is nothing in it for them, therefore it is banned. It is high time the government puts the interests of the people ahead of its own.
The government has no right to make an act that endangers no one else, and endangers very, very minimally the user. Freedom of thought, one of the nine types of political freedom, holds that people can think in whatever manner they choose, meaning that they should be able to alter their mind if they so wish it. Suppressing this is a violation.
Taxpayers collectively spend millions of dollars annually to enforce these null and void laws, and prisons are filled with innocent, nonviolent people who were merely exerting their civil rights. Prohibition is in effect discrimination against people who hold different viewpoints and reject the status quo. Banning a substance does much greater harm than the substance itself, and people suffer because of it.
Even if you believe that pot smoking is not a good thing, you must surely realize that criminalization is stupid. Turning an apple into forbidden fruit makes people who before did not care for apples want to eat a bushel. Also, young people hear from the government and society that marijuana is evil and harmful, and then they try it and realize it is not. The majority of hard drug addicts probably did this and thought that the government has been lying to them about hard drugs as well, and so tried them too.
I could probably write twenty pages on exactly why prohibition is stupid, unnecessary, harmful to society, a violation of rights and freedoms, and hypocritical, but if the above has not convinced you I do not know what will. Let us work together and end this bullshit.

well said, this was a fun stoned read :)

Well said and yes Harper should read it and also look into the history thats behind it.

That being said I am willing to pay lets say 120 a year so i can grow in peace.

they get the money I keep my freedom.l

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Originally Posted by cannabis=freedom

people often have the tendency to believe that legal and illegal define right and wrong

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True that. I often point out that "legal" and "illegal" are NOT synonyms with "right" and "wrong".

What inspired you to write that essay, school? I'd take that 'bullshit' at the end out if so :p

Good job btw

That was an excellent read man, with many excellent points that people often don't consider.

However, and I'm sorry if I'm being a wet blanket here, but I have to disagree with one point. Many people have argued that marijuana is illegal because the government can't tax it, but this doesn't really make sense in my mind. Tobacco, which is heavily taxed, is a plant just like marijuana that can be grown by anyone if they wished to do so. Alchohol is also quite easy to brew in your own home, I know this because my dad has brewed many a bottle of wine, and my uncle has brewed his own beer.
Furthermore, it's quite taxable because the majority of tax-money from it wouldn't come from growers, but from buyers. Legal cannabis shops would become very popular and every customer who buys a joint can have his 40 cents tacked on for big brother, just like with buying cigarettes.

Overall, this nation's economy would see a major contribution from legalized cannabis, a small drop in medical expenses since people have a healthier alternative, and a significant drop in organized crime revenue that would lose it's cannabis-based profits (the Hell's Angels in Canada get 80% of their profits from selling weed).

Once again, this is an excellent essay. Though you may want to cite specific scientific studies to support your claims rather than just state them as fact and move on, otherwise people will be guaranteed to question the validity of your "hippy" claims. Here's some resources which should help you:

http://www.kansan.com/stories/2006/o...arijuana/?news

http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...5-healthNews-3

http://www.lewrockwell.com/armentano...entano-p10.htm

http://www.cannabishealth.com/site/i...id-system.html (general physiological information)

http://www.peak.sfu.ca/the-peak/2005...ue9/ne-mj.html

http://www.briancbennett.com/charts/...-marijuana.htm

http://paranoia.lycaeum.org/marijuan...ogy.html#myth5

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/166/7/887

http://www.nap.edu/books/0309065313/html/

http://www.parliament.the-stationery.../151/15101.htm

http://www.freedomactivist.net/canna...ml#cannabidiol

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n307/a10.html

http://www.drugtext.org/sub/marmyt1.html

http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html

http://cannabisnews.com/news/22/thread22154.shtml

http://www.csdp.org/publicservice/mjtruth.htm

http://www.whitman.edu/biology/Stupr...gB/physio.html

http://www.cannabisfacts.ca/

http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/abstract/166/7/887

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...564&query_h1=1

thanks bud. I havent read enough about canada on cannabis. I know the history of the us.

mrdevious, thank you for pointing that out, and thank you for the sources. I didn't write this for school; I wrote it because I felt it needed to be written.

:rasta: high, nice work, thought you might enjoy this.

stop using the M word, lol


The Marijuana Conspiracy - The Real Reason Hemp is Illegal
by Doug Yurchey, 2005
(Posted here by Wes Penre, June 18, 2005)



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And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger
in the land.

-- Ezekiel 34/29

THE REAL REASON CANNABIS HAS BEEN OUTLAWED HAS NOTHING
TO DO WITH ITS EFFECTS ON THE MIND AND BODY.

MARIJUANA is DANGEROUS. Pot is NOT harmful to the human body or mind. Marijuana does NOT pose a threat to the general public. Marijuana is very much a danger to the oil companies, alcohol, tobacco industries and a large number of chemical corporations. Various big businesses, with plenty of dollars and influence, have suppressed the truth from the people.

The truth is if marijuana was utilized for its vast array of commercial products, it would create an industrial atomic bomb! Entrepreneurs have not been educated on the product potential of pot. The super rich have conspired to spread misinformation about an extremely versatile plant that, if used properly, would ruin their companies.

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 1800s; LA Times, Aug. 12, 1981.

* REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th 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 cannabis; 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.

* Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China, although hemp industrialization probably goes back to ancient Egypt.

* Rembrants, Gainsboroughs, Van Goghs 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 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.


THE CONSPIRACY

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.

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 ax.

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 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 cannabis 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 cannabis 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. Pot 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 pot 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 pot, 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 the bullshit. Hemp must be utilized in the future. We need a clean energy source to save our planet. 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: â??It's more dangerous than we thought.â?? Lies from the powerful 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-pot 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.

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. HALF A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY TOBACCO. HALF A MILLION DEATHS EACH YEAR ARE CAUSED BY ALCOHOL. NO ONE HAS EVER, EVER DIED FROM SMOKING POT!! In the entire history of the human race, not one death can be attributed to cannabis. Our society has outlawed grass but condones the use of the KILLERS: TOBACCO and ALCOHOL. Hemp should be declassified and placed in DRUG stores to relieve stress. Hardening and constriction of the arteries are bad; but hemp usage actually enlarges the arteries...which is a healthy condition. We have been so conditioned to think that: Smoking is harmful. That is NOT the case for passive pot.

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.

{One personal note: During the pregnancy of my wife, she was having some difficulty gaining weight. We were in the hospital. A nurse called us to one side and said: â??Off the record, if you smoke pot...you'd get something called the munchies and youâ??ll gain weight.' I swear that is a true story}.

The stereotype for a pothead is similar to a drunk, bubble-brain. Yet, the truth is oneâ??s creative abilities can be enhanced under its influence. The perception of time slightly slows and one can become more sensitive. You can more appreciate all arts; be closer to nature and generally FEEL more under the influence of cannabis. It is, in fact, the exact opposite state of mind and body as the drunken state. You can be more aware with pot.

The pot plant is an ALIEN plant. There is physical evidence that cannabis is not like any other plant on this planet. One could conclude that it was brought here for the benefit of humanity. 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 cannabis. 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 sexuallity. Growers know to kill the males before they fertilize the females. Yes, folks...the most potent pot comes from 'horny females.'

The reason this amazing, very sophisticated, ET plant from the future is illegal has nothing to do with how it physically affects usâ?¦..

â?¦POT IS ILLEGAL BECAUSE BILLIONAIRES WANT TO REMAIN BILLIONAIRES!

ps: I think the word â??DRUGSâ?? should not be used as an umbrella-word that covers all chemical agents. Drugs have come to be known as something BAD. Are you aware there are LEGAL drugstores?! Yep, in every city. Unbelievable. Each so-called drug should be considered individually. Cannabis is a medicine and not a drug. We should DARE to speak the TRUTH no matter what the law is.

i wrote a paper about marijuana recently for my english class. Our assignment was to write an argumentative research paper on any topic we wished, so I chose cannabis. i focused on its harms/benefits. i also tied in that many people are against pot because of its negative stigma (caused by all the shit the first guy talked about in his paper). my teacher said that i argues very "cogently" (strong and convincing). Because it was a research paper, there is lots of technical stuff in it, but if anyone wants to read it just let me know and i can send it to them

ps: cannabis=freedom, i loved your paper and i think it is awesome that you wrote it, just because. the essay i had to write had a word limit, so i couldn't write about everything i wanted to unfortuantely. one day i think i will go back to it and add a whole bunch of other stuff to it, then submit it somewhere that could help end this illegal cannabis bullshit.

pps: Bud Inc, and The Benefits of Marijuana (by Joan Bello) are great books to read. Bud Inc is about Canada's (BC's) marijuana industry, and it talks about stuff like the rate of enforcement when it comes to grow-ops and stuff. The second book I mentioned is pretty self-explanatory. It has a website with excerpts from it, you should check it out. it is www.benefitsofmarijuana.com

That was a Great read man
didn't really know much of canada's prohibition past...