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been known as hemp by those who for
thousands of years grew it as a crop. With
manipulation on the part of big-money
concerns and governments they control,
strains of hemp with high resin content were
renamed marijuana and villianised to the
public at large. Back in the era when this
occurred, the general public for the most
part had no idea what marijuana even was.
All they were told was that marijuana is a
dangerous addictive and deadly drug. We
were all led to believe that smoking a joint
was just about the most self-destructive and
harmful thing we could do to ourselves. Of
course, all of this was simply just a pack of
lies, but at the time, the public did not have
the means to find out otherwise.
Had the public known when their
governments were trying to have this plant
outlawed that many of the Founding Fathers
and past Presidents of the US smoked hemp
quite extensively during their careers, they
might not have swallowed these new
restrictions that were being forced upon
them so easily. There are a great number of
documented accounts that describe quite
vividly the smoking practices of many wellknown statesmen and even how presidents
like Abraham Lincoln used to enjoy the time
he spent smoking hemp in his pipe sitting on
his veranda.
Judging by some of the documents, political
leaders of that era brought into being, such
as the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution, I think it is safe to say that in
fact, they were very clear thinkers. It seems
that the dreaded effects of the marijuana
they were smoking which the public were
now being told is so detrimental, had no
impact at all on such individuals or their
ability to think rationally. Still, decades later
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put in place in the early 1900s, very few
people had knowledge of such things.
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legendary. It was used to treat practically all
types of disease and injury. Only for the last
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denied to the public. To recognize the hemp
plant for what it really is, all we have to do
is separate fact from fiction.
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