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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Oct 5, 2021 13:59:30 GMT -6
MARIJUANA What They Aren't Telling You By Stuart Wachowicz
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Efforts to legalize the use of marijuana, for both "medicinal" and recreational purposes, continue to grow and find success in the halls of state and national governments.
Is the drug as harmless as advocates claim? Could society benefit from legalizing pot? Is there a larger picture to consider? The plain answers are inside!
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Oct 5, 2021 14:05:32 GMT -6
Introduction
Up until only a few years ago, police and drug enforcement officials expended huge efforts to control or eliminate the trafficking and consumption of a plant-based drug we know as marijuana, or cannabis (Cannabis sativa). Despite their efforts in most of the previous century, the drug has remained popular and now sees consumption patterns increasing dramatically in North America and Europe (As of January 2020-BLSKV). Few events have such polarizing power as a debate over cannabis has been with mankind throughout most of recorded history, so what is the problem? Marijuana comes from the Indian hemp plant, which has been cultivated through the ages. Hemp was used in ancient China for making paper and also utilized extensivelely for the the production of rope. It was used so widely for rope and cord manufacturing that hemp plants were a part of most farmsteads in North America in the 19th and 20th centuries. However, from ancient times other
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Post by BrentKoivopolo888 on Jun 2, 2022 12:13:28 GMT -6
properties of this plant led to a very different application. Herodotus, in 420BC, reports the Scythians were making recreational use of cannabis, and thereafter we see hemp mentioned also for its hallucinogenic properties. Today, the manufacture of hemp rope is still an industry in many parts of the world, but it is the hallucinogenic properties of the female hemp plant that have become the primary focus of attention in recent times.
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