Cannabis - A History

Ran across this book review for a volume I hadn't heard of yet. Sounds like a good read for those of you looking for something to take along on your vacation. The reviewer, Gatewood Galbraith is a Lexington attorney who first ran for public office in 1983 on a platform of legalizing marijuana so I expect you can take his word for the quality of the content.

Cannabis, A History looks at the benefits of our plant from the agricultural...

Cannabis, referred to as hemp when grown for industrial-textile use, produces the longest and strongest natural fiber on earth and can be woven into cloth as fine as silk or as tough as canvas and rope. It makes the most durable paper in the world without wasting the forests. And hemp seed is one of nature's most nutritious foods.

Perhaps most important, hemp as a biomass produces methanol, which could give farmers an opportunity to earn a living growing fuel for our automobiles just like the corn growers producing ethanol.

...to the medicinal.

Cannabis, when grown for ingestion as medicine, is today called marijuana. It has been in use as an analgesic and stress reliever for thousands of years, in hundreds of cultures.

Before being made illegal in 1937, it was the basis of more than 50 percent of the medicines on earth. It is the safest, most therapeutic substance known to man and indicated for use in the treatment of cancer, nausea (especially as a result of chemotherapy or radiation therapy), migraine headaches, glaucoma, menstrual cramps, childbirth, muscle spasms, Tourette's syndrome, asthma and emphysema.

These are the facts the prohibition profiteers don't want you to have and this is only one of many fine volumes on the subject. Get informed but fair warning. The more you learn about this war, the more you realize what a criminal waste of your tax dollars it is.

If you're like me and take injustice too much to heart, it's not that good for your blood pressure.