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... six months in prison stated, "I"m going to incarcerate you in a way you won't like, but it may save your life" (Satel, "For Addicts, Force Is the Best Medicine", 101). Satel, a psychiatrist who treats drug addicts, feels that by keeping them in treatment, the legal consent - whether it is forced or not - may in fact keep the addicts alive (101). She convinced ... ...
... consumption of coffee was 3.5 cups per day per U.S. citizen. So why is marijuana illegal? It started with late President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush during their second term in office and proceeded on into President George Bush's and President Bill Clinton's office. The American people were now under the impression that this drug was the number one problem facing society ... ...
... legalized for its medicinal benefits, which would allow for higher quality health standards. Doctors will often recommend medical marijuana to their patients for its numerous health benefits. For example, Dr. George Wagoner, a practicing OB-YGN for 29 years, obtained marijuana illegally for his wife after undergoing intense rounds of chemotherapy. "We were running out of options," the doctor said ... . "She took two puffs, looked at me, and said, " 'The nausea's gone'. It was miraculous. Within seconds,the nausea just disappeared (TESTIMONY OF DR. GEORGE WAGONER)."Patients with canc...
... for shirts, pants, and bags. Not only were the common farmers growing and using hemp as a versatile media for a number of different uses, the leaders of our country, such as George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, the "Architect of the Constitution" and the mastermind behind The American Way smoked marijuana. How would they react to our current government's federal prohibition of marijuana ... ...
... event as the fulfillment of a prophecy of deliverance. Indeed, Ethiopia had symbolized all of Africa for the slave-descended Jamaicans since as far back as 1784, when American Baptist minister George Liele founded the Ethiopian Baptist Church on the island. These "Garveyites" were awed by newspaper and newsreel accounts of the pomp of Selassie's coronation in Addis Ababa and took note ... ...
... at most a few times a day, making it highly unlikely that they put themselves at risk. "Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere." This is what George Washington, the father of our country, said over 200 years ago. On his farm in Virginia he had acres of hemp plants growing and it was rumored a small amount of ... ...
... its many uses and invaluableness of hemp. It produced paper, clothing, rope, and was used marijuana was used to treat almost every ailment. The first president of the United States, George Washington, was an early hemp farmer. He kept notes in a journal about the quality of it and he wrote that he tried to make sure the female plants would become ... ...
... 's, colonists in Virginia planted the first hemp crop and were subsequently ordered by the King of England to engage in wide scale farming of the plant. It is reported that George Washington and Thomas Jefferson cultivated marijuana and preached for a hemp based economy! Hemp cultivation continued as an agricultural staple in America through the turn of the 20th century and was ... ...
... . You can make ten times more products with one acre of hemp than you can ten acres of trees (pearson99) Cannabis was brought to America during the early colonial period. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were hemp farmers. If people could be educated about the difference between marijuana and inustria hemp. Maybe our forests could be saved along with the billions ... ...
... leaves and flowering shoots of the plant.) (Yahoo Health.) In the 1600's hemp was considered such a vital resource, that laws were passed ordering farmers to grow it. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington both grew hemp on their plantations. When hemp is properly grown, it has virtually no psychoactive effects when consumed. Unlike many crops, hemp can be grown in most locations ... ...
