The many uses of Marijuana
FROM THE DEMOCRATICUNDERGROUND.COM
I recently came across some Handspun Antique Hemp Nightgowns – I now know why Pot is illegal
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Edited on Sat Oct-27-07 04:01 PM by debbierlus My fiancee deals in antiques & I help him on the side. I went to an estate sale & purchased a bunch of handspun cloth nightgowns from the 1820s/30s era. The woman at the sale was telling me about the process of how the woman made the cloth from hemp & showing me the beautiful tiny details of their work. There was not a hole in ANY of the fifteen I purchased. They were thick & sturdy. I brought them home & gently washed them with some oxyclean & put a little fabric softner in with them. They came out white & beautiful. I was awe-struck. I have always known, intectually, that hemp was suppossed to make great clothing & it has a million & one other uses as well. But, it wasn’t until I put my hands on these nearly 200 YEAR OLD pieces of fabric that I realized why industry would want to fight this plant. It lasts, if not forever, then for a couple of life-times or more. How on earth would they be able to generate profit, if we weren’t wearing holes in our Chinese factory made clothing every two weeks? And, of course, this is a plant that anyone could grow, it is a WEED. If it was used as fuel source (as I was told it would be a excellent use for…), how would they ever profiteer once the average person figured out how to make hemp oil, or each local community had a grower who would supply the fuel. Where would the oil billionaires be? It is absolutely CRIMINAl that this plant is illegal. How DARE they take away such a valuable resource that could provide such benefit for people & the earth, at a low cost? I have always been for the full legalization of Marijuana. Now, I think I will be more then for it, I will become a advocate & activist. And, I am going to start carrying one of the nightgowns in my car for show & tell. I am convinced, if people saw what this would do first hand, the laws would be demanded to change. |
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I could agree with you but i’ve seen the down side to this drug maybe a responsible adult as your self could use it in a responsable manner but i know many people who can’t. If the gonvernment was able to use it for it’s benifits and still keep it illegal to the general public then i could stand behind you on this one.
well martin, everything comes at a cost. The real reason it was ever made illegal is because they thought it was causeing a rise in crimes in lower class and imagrents (sorry i cant spell). They tried to tax it and make it so you had to have a licens to make and sell it but becuase people were not getting the licens and paying the taxes they say to hell with it. One reason they also made it illegal was the moive ‘Reffer maddness.’ I am for legalizoning it on any stander because its better then alchol or tobaco.
No one have ever died for pot and there are many other uses for marijuna besides smoking it. Heck you can make a great burning fuel for cars that are better for the envorment and is easier to make.
Plus we put about $7.5 billion on putting people in jail for it. If you make it legal you can save that, then tax it like alchol and tobaco and gain another $7.5 billion. And if we want to go creap, all the people in jail for growing it, Have them be hiried to make it legally.