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23 FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT MARIJUANA
1. CANNABIS AND HEMP ARE THE SAME
2. "MARIJUANA" WAS THE MEXICAN NAME GIVEN TO CANNABIS
3. CANNABIS WAS FIRST CULTIVATED IN CHINA AROUND 4000 BC.
4. THE ORIGINAL DRAFTS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WERE WRITTEN
ON HEMP PAPER
5. ONE ACRE OF HEMP WILL PRODUCE AS MUCH PAPER AS FOUR ACRES OF
TREES.
6. HEMP IS A SOURCE OF FIBERS FOR CLOTH AND ROPE.
7. THE HEMP FIBER IS LOCATED INSIDE THE LONG STEM OF THE PLANT.
8. GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THOMAS JEFFERSON GREW HEMP.
9. WASHINGTON, OUR FIRST PRESIDENT DECLARED "MAKE THE MOST OF HEMP
SEED SOW IT EVERYWHERE"
10. HEMP SEED IS NATURES PERFECT FOOD, THE OIL FROM HEMP SEEDS HAS
THE HIGHEST PERCENTAGE OF ESSENTIAL FATTY ACIDS AND LOWEST PERCENTAGE OF
SATURATED FATS. STERILIZED HEMP SEEDS ARE COMMONLY SOLD AS BIRDSEED.
11. ROLLING PAPERS ARE MADE FROM HEMP PAPER AS WELL AS BAMBOO.
12. IN 1937, THE MARIJUANA TAX STAMP ACT PROHIBITED THE USE, SALE,
AND CULTIVATION OF, HEMP/MARIJUANA IN THE UNITED STATES.
13. FIVE YEARS LATER, DURING WORLD WAR II, THE U.S.... DEPARTMENT OF
AGRICULTURE RELEASED THE FILM "HEMP FOR VICTORY", WHICH ENCOURAGED AMERICAN
FARMERS TO GROW HEMP FOR THE WAR EFFORT.
14. HEMP IS CULTIVATED ALL OVER THE WORLD.
15. TODAY, CHINA, KOREA, ITALY, HUNGARY, RUSSIA, AND FRANCE ARE AMONG
THE COUNTRIES THAT GROW HEMP FOR FIBER, PAPER, AND OTHER PRODUCTS.
16. CANNABIS IS CLASSIFIED AS A SCHEDULE ONE DRUG BY THE FOOD AND DRUG
ADMINISTRATION. DESIGNATED AS A NARCOTIC IT CANNOT BE PRESCRIBED BY PHYSICIANS
TO PATIENTS.
17. IN 1988, THE D.E.A.'S OWN ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE CONCLUDED THAT
"MARIJUANA IS ONE OF THE SAFEST, THERAPEUTICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCES KNOWN
TO MAN.
18. CANNABIS CAN BE USED AS A MEDICINE TO TREAT NAUSEA, PAIN, AND MUSCLE
SPASMS. IT ALLEVIATES SYMPTOMS OF GLAUCOMA, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, AIDS, MIGRAINES
AND OTHER DEBILITATING AILMENTS.
19. THIRTY-FIVE STATES HAVE PASSED LEGISLATION PERMITTING MEDICAL USE
OF MARIJUANA.. TWELVE AMERICANS RECEIVE PRESCRIBED MARIJUANA FROM THE U.S.
GOVERNMENT.
20. MORE THAN 600,000 AMERICANS ARE ARRESTED EACH YEAR ON MARIJUANA
CHARGES
21. MORE THAN 400,000 AMERICANS DIE FROM DISEASES RELATED TO CIGARRETTE
SMOKING EACH YEAR
22. MORE THAN 150,000 AMERICANS DIE FROM ALCOHOL ABUSE EACH YEAR
23. IN TEN THOUSAND YEARS OF USEAGE, NO ONE HAS EVER DIED FROM
MARIJUANA.
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