Gov. Shumlin Supports Study Legalizing Marijuana (via Repost Video News)
The House passed a bill to loosen restrictions on Vermont’s medical marijuana program.
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Possession Of Marijuana In Brooklyn Decriminalized In Small Quantities (via Bed-Stuy Patch)
Marijuana users in Brooklyn will get slapped with a mere $100 fine for possession so long as they don’t have a criminal record. Brooklyn potheads need not worry as long as they are well-behaved. Brooklyn DA Ken Thompson said he will no longer be prosecuting…
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Pennsylvania eye doctor sold marijuana to patients, report states (via NJ.com)
HAVERTOWN, Pa. — Police arrested a doctor and his adult daughter alleging the pair grew marijuana and sold it to patients, according to a report by ABC Channel 6 Action News, in Philadelphia. Police raided the suburban Philadelphia home of Dr. Paul…
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Bringing It Home (Jack Herer Was Right): Hemp Earth Day 2014 ~ New Film Review on the Bryan William Brickner Blog (via PRWeb)
In an Earth Day review of the hemp documentary Bringing It Home, author Bryan W. Brickner highlights the wisdom and logic of Jack Herer, the Hemperor, who was well known for saying hemp could save the planet. The film by Linda Booker and Blaire Johnson…
Clergy & Doctors Push Medical Marijuana (via Repost Video News)
More than one-hundred members of the clergy and doctors are trying to get medical marijuana legalized in Minnesota.
Is Your State Ready for Marijuana to be Legalized? RHI’s Seattle Forum will Explore Public Policy and Implementation Strategies in Colorado and Washington (via PRWeb)
On May 16, 2014, the Responsible Hospitality Institute’s Northwest Summit in Seattle will feature a a forum with key regulatory and community stakeholders from Colorado and Washington about the lessons learned from legalizing recreational marijuana…
Seeing Green: Investors Eye the Legalized Marijuana Industry (via Meet Advisors)
Past and present, investors always have been looking to cash in on the next big thing. In 1849, prospectors flocked west for the California Gold Rush. Today, investors are flocking towards the legalized marijuana industry, which is being referred to…
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Jamaica Sees Green In Ganja (via Repost Video News)
It seems the United States is inching ever closer to decriminalizing marijuana, following the passage of new laws in Colorado and Washington, but on the seemingly weed-friendly shores of Jamaica â birthplace of reggae music and the Rastafari â pot…
Canadians rally to legalize marijuana (via AFP)
Several thousand people came out in Canada’s biggest cities to call for the legalization of marijuana — a yearly protest that happens internationally on April 20. The demonstrations — dubbed the “420” rallies after the date, 4/20 in North American…
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A collection of Marijuana Facts from your friends at 420resource.net
The Neolithic people of Yuan-shan (near modern Taiwan) used hemp in pottery making.
Hemp fabric was found in Mesopotamia, and was mentioned in Assyrian scripts from the time.
Hemp rope and textiles permeate life in China
The worlds oldest pharmacopeia, the pen-ts’ao ching Lists Marijuana as a treatment for:
Many Egyptian papyrus’s refer to cannabis use as an:
The Indian text The Atharva Veda lists marijuana as one of the 5 sacred plants it is referred to as:
In India, they used Cannabis for as an:
In Syria Cannabis was used as:
Hebrew people use Cannabis (kaneh-bosm) to make holy anointing oil
The Zoroastrian Zendavesta, an ancient Persian religious text, refers to Cannabis as the “good narcotic.”
Herodotus reports on both ritual and recreational use of Cannabis by the Scythians and Thracians.
Stating about the Thracians: “for when they have parties and sit around a fire, they throw some of it into the flames, and as it burns it smokes like incense, and the smell of it makes them drunk just as wine does us; and they get more and more intoxicated as more fruit is thrown on, until they jump up and start dancing and singing.”
Roman Historian Pliny the Elder’s “The Natural History” mentions hemp rope and marijuana’s analgesic effects.
Nero’s physician, Dioscorides, lists medical marijuana in his Pharmacopoeia.
Roman Physician Gallen Aelius Galenus Wrote in De Facultatibus Alimentorum (the properties of foodstuff) that the Romans ate cannabis pastries at their banquets “to promote hilarity”
Arabic Doctors used Cannabis to treat migraines, aches and pains, and as a muscle relaxer
An ancient Arabic proverb asserts that, “A pipeful of kief before breakfast gives a man the strength of a hundred camels in the courtyard”
Marijuana was a popular folk remedy for toothaches to facilitate childbirth, to reduce convulsions, fevers, inflammations, and swollen joints and to cure rheumatism and jaundice.
Christopher Columbus carried Cannabis seeds on his expedition to the New World as a source of raw supplies in case of a shipwreck.
English Botanist John Parkinson describes Cannabis as effective for treating tumors. He also says it is useful for treating joint pain, muscle pain, and (when mixed in oil or butter) for treating burns.
1st US President George Washington said “Make the most of the Indian Hemp seed,… and sow it everywhere!”
Queen Victoria was prescribed Cannabis for her menstrual cramps by physician Sir Russell Reynolds who said “When pure and administered carefully, Cannabis is one of the of the most valuable medicines we possess”
The US Government distributed 400,000 pounds of Cannabis seeds to US Farmers who grew 42,000 tons of Hemp for the war effort.
US President Richard Nixon passed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act declaring marijuana a schedule 1 narcotic with NO medicinal value.
