Happy Weedsday!
I hope today finds you doing fine!
Since Cannabis has hit the streets pretty much mainstream these days, I thought that today I would share with all of you beautiful people some known and some not so known facts about the Cannabis Plant and its history. It has been utilized over history for many reasons and through many applications! What an amazing plant!
***There are four people in the US who not only can get legal marijuana, but the federal government sends it to them, free. I would love to be one of these people, wouldn't you?
https://nowiknow.com/license-to-toke/
***The Scoop-Doo movie (2002) was originally going to be dark and PG-13, with marijuana jokes and a side relationship between Velma and Daphne ! I bet that would have turned out differently!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo_(film)#Production
*** In the U.S., a sentence of life in prison without parole was given for trying to sell US$10 of marijuana to an undercover officer. There are still people today doing life for cannabis #stoplockingpeopleinacageforaplant
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/opinion/sunday/sentenced-to-a-slow-death.html
*** The U.S. government's "official expert" on Marijuana from 1938 to 1962 once testified in court, under oath, that he had smoked marijuana and it turned him into a bat. ***Puzzles me that we listen to our government when they are this irrational.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/media/schaffer1.htm
Marijuana seeds are a source of all amino acids. They are one of only a handful of substances that man can sustain off indefinitely with no other food and provide all known amino acids. Hemp seeds are delirious on some many foods!
Https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/marijuana_cultivation/fundamentals/parts_of_the_plant#seeds
***The first arrest for Marijuana possession and selling in the U.S. occurred in Denver, Colorado on October 2, 1937.
http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Marihuana_Tax_Act_of_1937.html
***There has never been any reported deaths linked to overdosing on marijuana. Amazing and true!
https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20030918/marijuana-smoking-doesnt-kill
Although cannabis is illegal in Australia, there’s a town in New South Wales revolving almost only around weed selling and weed tourism where cannabis is both sold and grown openly. Pretty cool if you ask me !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbin,_New_South_Wales
***The Hollywood sign was changed by a prankster in 1976 to read "Hollyweed", after the passage of a state law decriminalizing marijuana.
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jan/27/local/me-finegood27
***Every major study of marijuana policy in the last one hundred years has found that marijuana prohibition is a mistake which does more harm than good. True over and over again.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/media/schaffer1.htm
*** Hemp can be used for many things, like rope, clothes and even technology. One of the oddest uses of a hemp rope was for transporting giant pieces of stone, specifically the ones that make up the humongous Easter Island statues. Some people theorized that aliens had to have helped out in the creation of these statues due to how big they were and how limited our technology was during that time period. Nope, no aliens, just marijuana.
https://www.livescience.com/24312-easter-island-statues-walked.html
***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.
(G. M. Herdon. Hemp in Colonial Virginia).
*** Marijuana has been legal for personal use in Alaska since 1975, and it's still legal today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_the_United_States#Alaska
***A pair of scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco has found that a compound derived from marijuana could stop metastasis in many kinds of aggressive cancer, potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/marijuana-and-cancer_n_1898208.html
***Marijuana is legal and is not even classified as a drug in North Korea.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nn4ywx/north-korea-is-stoned-all-the-time-which-explains-a-lot
***Ancient china was known as the Land of Hemp and Mulberry. Hemp was known as a symbol of Power over evil and in Emperor Shen Nung’s pharmacopoeia it was known as the “liberator of sin”.
https://cannasos.com/news/education/ancient-china-the-land-of-mulberry-and-hemp
***Meridy Volz, pioneered a booming pot brownie business called *Sticky Fingers *in 1970s San Francisco.
http://wunc.org/post/criminal-original-brownie-lady#stream/0
***The woman who made cannabis brownies famous by baking and distributing them to AIDS patients was actually called Mary Jane..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownie_Mary
***The first thing ever bought and sold across the Internet was a bag of marijuana around 1971.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/apr/19/online-high-net-drugs-deal
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