Cannabis, family Cannabaceae; species: Cannabis indica, Cannabis ruderalia, and Cannabis sativa L., has been found on every continent in this hemisphere, it was used long before its first recorded uses. It’s safe to believe, that no historian knows which peoples were first to experience her treasures.

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In every society where people discovered Cannabis hemp, they often discovered the five uses for hemp which include; hempen fibers, oil from the seeds, the seeds for food, a medicine, and for its narcotic properties. Cannabis use has existed for over ten thousand years, and is one of the oldest crops used for cultivation. It was cultivated in China as early as 4000 BC. Most cultures viewed hemp as a gift, or treasure, from the Divine Sprit, to be used during ceremonials, at which time it was either burned as incense, ingested for deep meditative and heighten awareness, smoked for pleasure, or worn for clothing during these ceremonies. Hemp has been mentioned in many important documents over its recorded history, The Zend-Avesta, a sacred book used by the peoples of India dating back to 600 BC, spoke of hemp’s intoxicating resin. The Chinese emperor and herbalist, Chen-Nung wrote about hemp’s medicinal uses 5000 years ago, his pharmacoepia recorded its effects on malaria, female disorders, and many other illnesses, hemp was referred to as, Ma-fen “hemp fruit”, said; “if taken in excess, will produce hallucinations”. The Anatomy of Melancholy, published in 1621 recommended hemp for depression. The New English Dispensatory, of 1764 suggested applying hemp roots to the skin for inflammation.

In Africa hemp was used for dysentery, and fevers, today some tribes use hemp to treat snake bites, and women smoke it before childbirth. During the seventeenth century peasants believed in the magical power of hemp, and practiced their traditions. On Saint John’s Eve, farmers would pick flowers from their hemp plants and feed them to their livestock to protect the animals from evil and sickness.

A western physician by the name of W.B. O’Shaughnessey published in 1839 of the benefits of cannabis for the treatment of rabies, rheumatism, epilepsy, and tetanus. He also reported that a tincture of hemp and alcohol taken orally was found an effective analgesic.

Henry VIII required the cultivation of one quarter acre of hemp for every sixty acres of land under tillage, for maritime purposes in England.

The British began cultivating hemp in its Canadian colonies in 1606, cultivation began for Virginia in 1611. The Pilgrims introduced cultivation to New England as early as 1632, they learned about the cultivation of hemp from the Native Americans people.

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The REAL Reason Hemp/Marijuana was MADE Illegal

How DID True Hemp ( Cannabis sativa,sub-species sativa ) disappeag from American-family-hemp-farms? Starting in the late 1920's, forest-products, cotton, oil, petrochemical, steel, and perhaps even aluminum industries feared COMPETITION from a very innovative new technology; the HEMP DECORTICATOR.

HEMP DECORTICATORS were just becoming commercially-available on True Hemp farms. This key technology would have allowed
family farmers to create a carbohydrate economy to replace what is now
a system dominated by hydrocarbons (oil, coal, and natural-gas).

In fact, in the February, 1938 edition of Popular Mechanics, hemp was
heralded as a 'New Billion Dollar Crop'. Exactly what caused the demise of True Hemp commodity farming? Well, in 1917 George W. Schlicten pulled off a sort of Eli-Whitney-cotton-gin stunt, only way better....he patented the HEMP DECORTICATOR; a farm-machine that mechanically separates the fiber in the True Hemp stalk. This labor-saving device was just barely beginning to kick some centralized-polluting-corporate-butt in the late 1920's.

Coincidentally, this is exactly when a deliberate smear campaign was
launched (by print, newsreel, and radio) to discredit what was THEN a
very new and mysterious word: marijuana. A negative image was assigned to that now-dreaded M-word. Non-drug, True Hemp simply had to be stopped (if youwere a wealthy industrialist, that is....)

Although the indica sub-species may or may notcompete with patented,
synthetic, man-made-chemicals that can be centrally controlled by pharmaceutical corporations, Sativa sub-species-non-drug-True-Hemp commodity COMPETITION is what very big business actually
stopped (by clever deception).

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• Approximately 6% of the agricultural land area of the contiguous United States would produce more Cannabis Biomass than is required to supply all current demand for gasoline, diesel, and oil for America.

• The Cannabis Biomass Energy Equation (CBEE), given practical application in the Cannabis Biomass Resource and Pyrolysis Functions (CBRPF), explains and establishes, for the first time on record, how Cannabis, uniquely among plant species, produces fuel-energy cheaper per BTU than fossil fuels and uranium, and is capable of their economic replacement. Profound amelioration is made available to the world and its peoples from these facts, which are expounded in-depth. Chemistry: shows Cannabis-Methanol fuel-energy pollution-free.

• The U.S. National "Soil Bank’s" registered fallow land (circa 89 million acres) can be planted with soil-enriching, non-depletive cannabis as a fallow rotation crop, producing enough Cannabis-Methanol, oil, lubricants and BTU-gas for all North American land, sea and air transportation requirements.

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A Sometimes Fibrous World

     The conditions by which fibrous material forms are very diverse.  Fibers are a naturally occurring specific in most situations where raw matter, gravity, energy, and liquid possess enough order to call forth Life The Builder. A major example of this is plant produced fiber, and the tough and lengthy fiber strands are not only the plants plumbing, but its very skeleton as well.

     Its a nice thing, is fiber, much sought after throughout the whole of human history, and highly utilized too.  So. The formation of fibrous material seems inherent here on Earth, and this can be witnessed readily in some geological formations too.
Asbestos, and many other stone types, including agate, are fibrous in nature. Fiber is one of the major ways matter coalesces, Grows, within the universal life form at this milieu.

     Fastening, a science unto itself, was born of the versatility gained once real cordage was developed. Up until 1937 AD one of the most preferred woven cordage's was made of the hemp fiber, manila rope, in one form or another.   Hemp fiber was also used for a very common material called canvas. The word Canvas is directly derived from the word Cannabis. I've seen some newer dictionaries that don't illustrate this, but most of the dictionaries before the 80's, if they are comprehensive at all, will show the derivation, and my favorite dictionary, a humongous tome from some 1902 school library, says this: Canvas n. [OE. canvas, canevas, F. canevas, LL canabacius hempen cloth, canvas, L cannabis hemp....a strong cloth made of hemp...used for tents sails etc... Thats not a complete ver batim rendition but very near.

     The plain fact is that hemp was not just a fiber within Humankinds repertoire, but a PREFERRED Fiber. So much so that many times export of a particularly valuable hemp strain was violently discouraged. When Thomas Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds out of Manchuria, it was a killing offense had he been discovered. He of course owned a farm in America, and propogated hemp energetically there, as did almost all other farmers of that time and general locale, because growing hemp in Early America was quite the accepted thing to do. It was THE major source of fiber from which to fashion cordage and sails, and at that time, as with all times preceding it, the quality of a nations Navy was what its ranking in superiority was based upon. Hemp, through the navys of the world, literally ran the world.

     Many wars were fought over Hemp accessibility, and when put alongside all the other wars of our history, they together create a banal little cartoon about misappropriation at all costs. Kind of sleazy. Be all that as it may. War REALLY got going after hemp was outlawed, so that finer technology in the form of petroleum plastics could be pumped out by the boatload.

     Have we gotten better since hemp was outlawed? No, we have gotten even worse. We have allowed ourselves to fill up the world, and our trash to fill up the world, and our trash will be around looooooong after us. Hah! The very presence of our nondegradable trash could become directly responsible for us becoming dust in the wind. Hows that for banal? Get so far and die of the rat syndrome. Not very funny.

Bill Gallagher 3/99

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