Letter for my class about legalization.

[Nugget Lover]

Cannabis doesnt kill brain cells.

That's one of the biggest mis-conceptions.

The only cells it kills are cancerous, and also, it may help healthy cells live longer, promoting longer life, and also a more active brain.

And also put in to the letter how us cannabis smokers suffer racism every day, because people are too ingorant to do any research. We're discriminated against, and looked down upon, when infact, we are more important to this world than all of those ignorant non smoking morons put together.

Well, actually it does kill brain cells because the way in is consumed is primarily through combustion. Smoke/Lack of oxygen kills brain cells

[Nugget Lover]

Hemp is one of the Earth's most diverse plants. Evidence shows that there was hemp fabric dating all the way back to 8,00 BC. Both president Washington and Jefferson grew hemp during the Colonial Era and Early Republic, which at the time was very common. Even the constitution was first written on hemp parchment. Back then it was used for many things including: clothing, food, oils, and rope. Though it's illegal now to cultivate in the U.S. due to many to many things, but mainly because it's intoxicating counterpart cannabis. Which became illegal in 1937 during the Reefer Madness Era, but the real reason was fueled by racism. During those times the government began prohibiting all intoxicants primarily used by the increasing amounts of minorities.
Hemp is great for the environment, it helps eliminate deforestation because it yields four times as much paper as decade old trees. Hemp also has one of the fastest growing taproots, which is great for soil erosion. Not only is the tap root fast growing, but hemp can grow up to 16 feet in only 110 days. Unlike paper, hemp can be bleached with little or no chemicals. The majority of produce grown in the U.S. is protected with many pesticides, but what's so wonderful about hemp is that it rarely needs pesticides. Cotton on the other hand uses 25% of the Earth's pesticides. Not only that, but hemp consumes a fraction of the amount of water cotton does, which is very important because water levels are decreasing at an alarming rate in heavily farmed areas.. As with many plants; hemp's seeds, stalk, and fermentation of the plants can be used to make bio fuel.
Due to natural selection over the 10,000 years of existence have resulted in varieties that look quite different from one another. Starting in the 20's they began selective breeding to produce a favorable hemp production hybrid. That showed traits containing the following: low in THC, fast growing, fibrous, and resistance to pests. When growing hemp they keep the plant in vegetative growth because letting the plant be gin the flowering process would decrease fiver quality and yield. There are three broad groups of Cannabis varieties being cultivated today:
Varieties primarily grown for their fibers, known for their long stems and little branching, called Industrial Hemp
Varieties cultivated for the seeds form which hemp oil is extracted
Varieties cultivated for medicinal or recreational purposes
The fiber has been grown in Asia and the Middle East for 100's of centuries, while Western part of the world didn't begin commercial production until the 18th century. From the 1950s to the 1980s the Soviet Union produced the majority of the world's hemp with a whopping crop of 3,000 square kilometers. Mainly in Ukraine, the Kursk and Orel regions. Some of the smaller producers are located in China Germany, and UK which resumed production in the 90s. Most of Germany's production of fiber is used for composite automotive panels. And China currently produces 40% of U.S.'s hemp consumption.
Hemp has obviously faded out in the last two centuries, but is on the rise again and soon will make a big comeback. Hemp plastics are soon to be a reality, but it will take time and the U.S. government coming to it's senses. Considering we're one of the very few countries who have yet to legalize hemp production. We won't see any drastic changes until hemp gains back it's popularity and the world becomes more environmentally friendly. But looking at history and man's stubborness by the time America comes to it's senses it might be too late.

-Ben Jammin'

[LIP]

Well, actually it does kill brain cells because the way in is consumed is primarily through combustion. Smoke/Lack of oxygen kills brain cells

Aha! But thats oxygen depravation. THC and other cannabinoids trhemselves dont.

So, really, you could do worse damage just by holding your breath.

So really, that argument still stands.

[intrepidus6]

Cannabis doesnt kill brain cells.

That's one of the biggest mis-conceptions.

The only cells it kills are cancerous, and also, it may help healthy cells live longer, promoting longer life, and also a more active brain.

And also put in to the letter how us cannabis smokers suffer racism every day, because people are too ingorant to do any research. We're discriminated against, and looked down upon, when infact, we are more important to this world than all of those ignorant non smoking morons put together.

I agree, but marijuana users do not suffer from racism. Racism is discrimination based on race. Not age, gender, sexual orientation, use of marijuana etc. Those have other names.

[Gasper02]

Indeed, you tell that woman you dont belive in using a racist word to describe your fellow cannabis users.

Put in their somewhere that "Marijuana" is racist.

F'n Douchebag! :S5: :S5: :S5: Marijuana impairs memory, dumbass!:S5:

[LIP]

I agree, but marijuana users do not suffer from racism. Racism is discrimination based on race. Not age, gender, sexual orientation, use of marijuana etc. Those have other names.

No, your right. We are discriminated against for our use of an almost harmless plant that should be legal.

We're treated differntly, as though were the "problem's" within sociaty.

[LIP]

F'n Douchebag! :S5: :S5: :S5: Marijuana impairs memory, dumbass!:S5:

Hmmm, well if you were actually old enough to know what a douchebag is you'd know i cant possibly be one.

1] Grow up.

2] Stop trying to insult people, your only making yourself look childish.

Yes, cannabis can impair short term memory, although this is not the case with all people.

For example, i dont have any loss of short term memory.

Think before you post your childish drivel, there's already enough silly little kids on this site, we dont need anymore.

[Abattoir Dream]

clearly add somewhere about the co2 it takes in, and o2 it puts out, because that counters global warming...

[intrepidus6]

No, your right. We are discriminated against for our use of an almost harmless plant that should be legal.

We're treated differntly, as though were the "problem's" within sociaty.

No, I was trying to say that you used the word "racism" incorrectly. Racism, by definition, is descrimination based on race. Discremenation based on marijuana consumption is not the same as racism.

[LIP]

No, I was trying to say that you used the word "racism" incorrectly. Racism, by definition, is descrimination based on race. Discremenation based on marijuana consumption is not the same as racism.

If you read my post you'd see my first few words were "No, your right."

But we, as cannabis smokers, are still treated differntly by the general public because we smoke a plant.