How did the banning of marijuana start?
 

I'm curious to find out.

Interesting info about marijuana

http://www.theantidrug.com/drug_info...lthhazards.asp

Now let's see about tobacco

http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/b...y?OpenDocument

When pharmacy companies / industrialists realised anyone with half a brain could grow a lifetime supply in their backyard. Cheap strong renewable paper and pulp supplies and drugs means $0 for rich industrialists

It used to be a law that you HAD to grow weed..

" Apart from its use in tobacco products, nicotine is a scheduled poison under the State Poisons Act."

never knew this!

a hemp resurgence in the thirties would certainly have been a serious threat to Dupont's petro-chemical strategies.

or its just a conspiracy against me :p

yeah.. a used nicotine patch has enough nicotine to kill kids or pets if ingested


btw, i seen it on someone elses patch i dont fuck with that shit

just the green ;)

sounds like noone here has watched the weed documentary done by woody harrelson. Some 30's hipocrate decided that the drug made you go crazy and depicted it somehow to being violent. That theory has still yet to be proven, as never in the history of the drug has a death been directly or inderectly caused by the "use" of mary jane.

I looked for that and couldnt find it :(

legalize weed and it would be a rocking party.

hehe.. i only smoke cigs, not much a day though.. quit the weed cuz it seemed like i got some natural aversion of it..
btw some ppl dont know this about marijuana, also in the marijuana article posted:
" Regardless of the THC content, the amount of tar inhaled by marijuana smokers and the level of carbon monoxide absorbed are three to five times greater than among tobacco smokers. "
note: ^^^that didnt stop me form smoking it by the way it was purely my own body reaction to it why i dont smoke it no more

I dont smoke period. What is the fascination with weed?

Hemp and cotton where once big rivals the man who invented the cotton gin and cotton growers got together and got it baned.
During WW2 it made a comeback and farmers where asked to grow it to make rope for the war.

weeds are only for those who are depressed people.

do a search on harry anslinger too while you're at it.

weed was banned because it spammed another board.



i know, that was dumb.. but that woody harrelson thing was cool. it was funny to see the different propoganda the government used as one theory after another was proven wrong.

no one has ever died from it, its not harmful

someone rangggggggg???????

Grow your own - Start Now

POT, POPCORN, PORN, PROFITS

God Bless America!

Except psychologically to a low percentage of more than casual users. I'm in one of the biggest weed consumption areas of Australia and we have our own mental clinic to deal with it..

not so much a fascinaion as it is a medicine.
of all the vises people have, show me a pot smoker that
wants to cause trouble. you can just give them a snack and they will take
a nap.

Legalize WEED and GFYers will learn to love BUSH. :1orglaugh

I don't now about the US, but in Canada it was marijuana was made illegal in 1923 if I am correct

al gore made it illegal right before he invented the internets.

You will never know. ;)

Had to do with xenophobia about Mexicans in the 1910's.

do some reading..

superior pulp & paper products ..

You can build houses from hemp that wont catch fire.

I know a guy who makes industrial bricks from hemp , and it beats concrete bricks by a mile ( and cheap too )

Holds more weight , lighter , cheaper, stronger.. and on and on..

There's a million reasons why you should be fascinated by marijuana.

Imagine everything you can think of made of wood, now imagine never needing to chop another tree down because it can all be made from marijuana.

fuckin George Bush, man

I ahven't tried it frankly.. and 2nd hand smoking doesn't count...I hear they even baked brownies with it!

What, it was banned?? When was this??

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

I'm rolling a joint now, but that's not entirely true. They grow trees, for wood. Marijuana plants are plants too. Is it bad to plant and kill them? We have lots of trees.

I agree there are plenty of other uses, but it would be silly to stop cutting trees!

Ok so now that I've read that can someone bring me some Purple Haze to the show?

They dont grow trees.. trees grow by themselves..

They dont use man grown trees yet because they take older real trees. Planted trees are useless twigs.. Trees are only renewable if you selective log. It doesnt work if you plant them.. You get matchsticks that way..

Marijuana takes less than a year to grow and doesn't require selctive harvesting..

We dont have lots of trees. If we cut them as fast for the next 100 years as we did for the last 100 years we will have 0 trees left..

Hemp can be used for much wood uses and almost all grades of paper. The actual benefit is that the hemp is replacable at a rate many times faster than trees.

Awesome amount of information here:
http://pot.tv/

Required reading here:
http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html

I think Napoleon had the first anti weed law. Had something to do with crippling the British navy since all thier ropes were made from hemp.

Fact

Also fact.

i would guess less than .00000001% of potheads would ever do anything more with it than smoke it.

Oh yes, they would rather pay much more for chemical alternatives to various hemp products :1orglaugh

do you have any clue what it takes to turn a plant into paper or do you just think you're funny? do you think someone wants to get high so they can spend days turning a weed into paper so they don't have to spend 4 bucks for a ream of printer paper?

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