“To forbid or even seriously restrict the use of so holy and gracious a herb would cause widespread suffering and annoyance, and to large bands of worshipped ascetics, deep-seated anger. It would rob the people of a solace in discomfort, of a cure in sickness, of a guardian whose precious protection saves them from the attacks of evil influences… Like his Hindu brother, the Musalman fakir reveres Bhang as the lengthener of life, the freer from the bonds of self. Bhang brings union with the Divine Spirit. “We drank Bhang and the mystery I am, grew plain. So grand a result, so tiny a sin.” “
J.M. CampellNote on the Religion of Hemp British Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report 1839-1894
“This book is dedicated to: The Sun and Mother Nature for conspiracy to cultivate medical marijuana. All the world’s innocent criminals. Those being sought after and prosecuted while utilizing and cultivating this planet’s most valuable natural resource. Someday understanding will come about, laws will change and Mother Nature’s most precious gift and its users will be released from tyranny.”
How to Grow Medical Marijuana Todd McCormick
“The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. “
Thomas Jefferson
“Make the most of the hemp seed, sow it everywhere.”
George Washington
“All you need to know are a few basics. First, there are male and female plants. The substance that gives marijuana its famous psychoactive kick is concentrated in the flowers or buds of the females. So when they’re old enough to tell them apart, kill the males. Two, give your plants plenty of light and not too much water.”
Peter JenningsABC's News Special - “Pot of Gold” 1997, rebroadcast 1998
“Legalize it! Decriminalize it! Legalize your herb, from creation. Legalize the Ganja Flower, the Ganja Seed, the Ganja Plant, the Ganja Weed…Laws of man are of the serpent, all that remains are the chains. Thou shalt not walk, thou shalt not talk, thou shalt not come in, but who amongst sincerely believe to walk along the grass is a sin?”
GT Moore“Ganja Flower”
“Have you ever met that funny reefer man? If he says he swam to china. Sell you South Carolina, than you know your talking to that reefer man. If he says he walks the ocean, anytime he takes a notion, than you are talking to that funny reefer man!”
Cab Calloway “Reefer Man"
“What if God smoked Cannabis? Hit the bong, like some of us? Drove a tie-dyed microbus, and he subscribes to rolling stone. When God made this place, in the beginning, did he plant any seeds, or did he put them for Adam and Eve, so they would be hungry for the apple the snake is always offering?.. Do you suppose he had a buzz, when he made the platypus, when he created earth, our home? ”
Parody of Alanis Morisette (by unknown)
"Well, they'll stone ya when you're trying to be so good,They'll stone ya just a-like they said they would.They'll stone ya when you're tryin' to go home.Then they'll stone ya when you're there all alone.But I would not feel so all alone,Everybody must get stoned"
Bob Dylan“Rainy Day Women #12”
A gift from the gods, according to Indian mythology, the magical Cannabis
"lowered fevers, fostered sleep, relieved dysentery, and cured sundry other ills; it also stimulated the appetite, prolonged life, quickened the mind, and improved the judgement."
The Atharva Veda (Four Vedas of the Aryan religion, compiled between 1400 and 1000 B.C.)
“Why is it such a crime? Hey, everybody should be getting high.”
Krayzie Bone “Smoking Buddha”
"one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man."“Marijuana is far safer than many foods we commonly consume”
Francis Young American Federal Judge
"I am opposed to stealing other people's pot"
Pierre Burton
Canadian Author
"There's no doubt whatsoever that I am not impaired in any way, shape or form by marijuana smoking, any more than a tobacco smoker would be."
Rick Reimerretired Killaloe lawyer "According to the DEA, hemp is marijuana," said Dr. Mahlberg. "They don't recognize a substance called hemp, despite the fact that it is recognized the world over. They have their own little definition of what cannabis is. Also, the federal government's interpretation that industrial hemp leads to the abusive use of marijuana is incorrect for two reasons. First, hemp is low in THC and high in CDC, cannabidiol, while marijuana has the opposite distribution of these two agents. CDC, it must be stressed, is antagonistic to THC. In other words, the presence of high levels of CDC renders THC with little or no effect. Second, since these two plants (hemp and marijuana) are so closely related, they will cross-pollinate. This means that the presence of hemp being grown in an environment will degrade THC levels in the seed generation of any marijuana being grown in proximity to it."
Dr. Paul G. Mahlberg, Cannabis researcher, University of Indiana(USA)Quoted speaking with "The Week Online" on the DEAs refusal to recognize or admit some basic, established truths regarding cannabis.
"Marijuana gives rise to insanity -- not in its users but in the policies directed against it. A nation that sentences the possessor of a single joint to life imprisonment without parole but sets a murderer free after perhaps six years is in the grips of a deep psychosis."
Eric Schlosser “More Reefer Madness”
"Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marihuana in private for personal use... Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to eliminate all Federal criminal penalties for the possession of up to one ounce [28g] of marihuana."
Jimmy Carter
U.S. President’s Message to congress 1977
“Western governments ... will lose the war against dealers unless efforts are switched to prevention and therapy... All penalties for drug users should be dropped ... Making drug abuse a crime is useless and even dangerous ... Every year we seize more and more drugs and arrest more and more dealers but at the same time the quantity available in our countries still increases... Police are losing the drug battle worldwide."
Raymond Kendall
secretary general of INTERPOL, January 1994
"By any of the major criteria of harm - mortality, morbidity, toxicity, addictiveness and relationship with crime - [cannabis] is less harmful than any of the other major illicit drugs, or than alcohol or tobacco."
Report of the British Police Foundation March 2000
“The War on Drugs was never, ever about drugs, it's about bigotry. You can change the law, but changing the prejudice and fear of bigots who hide behind drug war rhetoric is a far more challenging task. It's time to expose the Drug War and the bigots who promote the ideology of "Zero Tolerance."”
Steve Kubby
"You know those authority figures who are telling you that marijuana is a bad thing to talk about? Well those people do some horrible, awful things. They believe that violence is the answer to everything! Be aware of what these people are doing--these people are brainwashing all of us. And they have the gall to say that we are the problem, that marijuana is the problem. Well, marijuana doesn't bust down people's doors. Marijuana doesn't destroy people's lives. Marijuana has not been proven to kill one single person. I don't believe it is a marijuana problem. I truly believe it is the authority figures in our life--it's their problem! They're the ones who are lying to us, who are making us feel awful. And we need to start looking at who are these people!? What are they saying to us? Why are we allowing them to keep us silent, to keep us held down, to keep us from speaking our truth. It's all a mental game. And when you start asking questions about what these people are about, they don't hold up very well--they don't have a lot of moral justification for what they do. We are better than these fraudulent authority figures, who try so desperately to rule over our lives!"
Michele Kubby
"Remember, when you posess cannabis or paraphenalia, or are stoned in public, YOU ARE IN A POSITION TO GET BUSTED!! In North America, that can mean JAIL TIME or FINES, and nobody wants that (except maybe the DEA)! If you practice responsible use within a private residence, you should be just fine!
"Mcguyver
http://mcguyver.netfirms.com/ganja.htm
"The Constitution allows federal regulation of homegrown marijuana as interstate commerce.[Even if homegrown, given away for free, within the state.]”
US Justice John Paul Stevens(06/06/05)
“The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.”
Willie Nelson, High Times, January 1991
“No one has taken the $100,000 challenge to prove me wrong. Why? Because I am right. The U.S. government has been lying to us since the early 1900s. Do economic interests and the police have more to say than the people about the future of our planet? How angry are you for being lied to by the U.S. government about CANNABIS/HEMP/MARIJUANA? Are you willing to make a stand right now? No one can dispute this information and knowledge. YOU have to join me in this fight. Either you are on the U.S. government's side or you are on my side.”
Jack Herer
"Orbis terrarum est non altus satis"/"The world is not high enough"
James Bong
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