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Hemp Can Save the World: Review of the Hemp Revolution Documentary
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Yesterday, I had the opportunity to watch a wonderful documentary on Hemp called “the Hemp Revolution”. If you get an hour in a day, then I recommend that you check this documentary out as it explores many different angles of the hemp rise, fall, and potential rise again.
If you are interested in seeing the documentary in its entirety, then I am posted a link here for your view. Full Hemp Documentary, but here is a clip for you to get an overview here:
Hemp History
The use of hemp has been around for thousands of years. I know this may be hard to believe, but it is true. There have been documented evidence of the ancient Egyptians using the plant, the Chinese using it back in it’s Dynasty era, India has used it for thousands of years, the aboriginal Australians, South Americans, and even those in the Americas thousands of years ago.
Knowing that hemp has been used for food, clothing, canvases, fibers, oil, a smoking substance and more, leads us to wonder how and why did hemp all but disappear from the modern productive world? Well, this documentary goes into this as well, but we will leave that for later.
Just understand that hemp has not always been a damned drug in this world and we believe one day it will be back and thus will free the people from the entrapments of corporate greed. Cause once you understand how and why hemp was banned in the United States, the influence the United States has on the rest of the world, then you will get why this was a corporate decision and not the will of the people. But we will get into that in a moment.
The United States was founded on the backbone of the hemp movement. All paper during the founding of the country was created on hemp. In fact, the declaration of Independence was printed on 100% hemp paper.
Hemp, the Forest, and Paper
Hemp is critical to the forest because it has the capacity to save the forest from destruction of people. Each year, people consume billions of pounds of paper for reading, books, wrapping gifts and a myriad of other activities. But each one of these activities takes trees to create the paper used. These trees are being torn down day and day in the forest of the world. This may not seem like a big deal, but at the rate we are on today, this simply isn’t a sustainable future. Eventually, we will run out of trees to continue feeding our paper fetish.
Not to mention that the paper that are generated by wood has a lower quality of paper than compared to hemp. These papers need to be treated and infested with tons and tons of chemicals that treat the wood and turn it into useful paper. These chemicals run off into the water streams around the plants and infect the environment around it. The pollution from making paper is crazy and it makes no sense when there is an option that grows from the ground.
Hemp paper does not need any chemicals or pesticides to grow, unlike cotton. So hemp is great for the environment. And in paper production, the chemicals to make paper useful are not needed in hemp paper. It is just completely friendly to the environment.
More on Hemp
There are many, many more uses for hemp and the derivatives that it produces that it isn’t even funny. If people really want to make a difference in this world, then they have to wake up to the reality that this plant was put here by the Gods to help the people, not harm them.
But until hemp is legalized, we will smoke in protest. Smoke one to the greatness of the hemp plant!
ShareMedicinal Marijuana Is Coming To an Hospital Near You
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Like it or not, medicinal marijuana is coming to an hospital near you. There just seems to be too much need, research, and support for it to be much longer before it is not used in the medical field and eventually legalized.
After the American Medical Association approved marijuana for medical research purposes and reversing their over 50 year stance against it, the tide turned. Now people are more likely to be open to the possibility that marijuana might be the wonder drug that it was once thought to be.
American Medical Association & Medicinal Marijuana
As WSM reported in this article about the American Medical Association supporting marijuana, we knew that this done would be coming our way soon. They AMA reported that they are willing to open up medicinal marijuana to more testing and allow doctors and chemist to begin testing drugs that can be created from marijuana that will help the medical community deal with the rising illnesses and troubles of the people.
There is little doubt that marijuana can be used to help people with cataracts, glaucoma, asthma, the common cold, and more, but there is hope that it might be very helpful in ADD, ADHD, cancer, sickle cell anemia, and more. Think about how wonderful this would be if these illnesses and many more can be tamed by something that grows out of the ground and is very sustainable. This would be huge, which is one more reason we feel that Medicinal marijuana will be coming to an hospital near you soon.
Medicinal Marijuana Research
Every since marijuana was made illegal in 1937 here in the United States, it has had a very hard time proving it’s medicinal uses to the public. The reason is because most of the credible researchers that they American people would trust dropped out of researching the herb for medical purposes as they thought that it had no chance of being legalized for medical or personal use, so why continue the studies?
The people that were studying the medicinal uses of marijuana were fringe researchers here in the United States and others from foreign countries, but Americans are not likely to trust either group. Therefore, for about 70 years, medicinal marijuana has been lost in the shuffle of the drug war, teenage usage, and lies about how it effects the body.
With the backing of the American Medical Association and even the Obama administration that told Federal agencies to leave marijuana clinics in States that allow them to operate alone, medicinal marijuana is posted to take to the lime light and enter the hospitals as a viable drug that has the capacity to change the medical field and the world.
The Need for Medicinal Marijuana
It really puzzles me that people are not open to even testing the uses and benefits of medicinal marijuana. You would think that with all the illness and sickness in this world that are not being solved by more dangerous drugs, the medical field and the people would be open to explore the uses and functions of medicinal marijuana, but they are not. They are closed minded and don’t even want to acknowledge any of the benefits or victories that have already been accredited to marijuana.
For example, people with multiple sclerosis are greatly benefited by smoking marijuana, but people act like those that do should be thrown in jail. This is ridiculous. We are all grown ups and if you want to smoke, then smoke. But if smoking greatly improves your quality of life, who are we to say that you shouldn’t be doing it. I always thought the medical field was here to help the people, but it seems like they are not.
Yet with the American Medical Association changing it’s stance on medicinal marijuana, the doors of opportunity seem to be opening and the lights of the hospital will shine on marijuana soon.
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