If
a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and
never will be . . . . The people cannot be safe without information. Where
the press is free, and ever man able to read, all is safe.
—Thomas
Jefferson
CURRENTLY,
over 30 million people in the United States regularly smoke marijuana.
Many smoke to unwind after a busy day, to relieve stress, or simply for
fun. Some smoke for spiritual reasons such as to assist in meditation,
to be more conscious of the present moment, or to enhance their awareness
at all levels. Others, suffering from AIDS, cancer, chronic pain, glaucoma,
and stomach ailments, smoke marijuana because they find it to be an effective,
safe, and inexpensive treatment for their condition.
Legalizing Marijuana
Despite
the fact that the vast majority of marijuana smokers are otherwise
law-abiding and productive citizens, the federal government, as well as
every state, has chosen to make even the possession of marijuana a crime.
and has vowed to fight the "War on Drugs." As a result, in the
average year. 400,000 people are arrested on some type of marijuana charge.
Perhaps
recognizing the impact of this war on individual liberties, the War's
leader has officially been labeled the "Drug Czar." The Czar's
field commanders in the War are agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration
and various state law-enforcement agencies. Indicative of the commanders'
vilification of marijuana and those who smoke it is a statement made
by outgoing Los Angeles Chief of Police, Daryl Gates, who in testimony
before the Senate Judiciary Committee stated that he favored the death
penalty even for casual users of marijuana.
Fortunately,
because our nation's founders rebelled against a government they
perceived as tyrannical, they had the foresight to create the Bill of
Rights. Those first ten amendments to the Constitution (especially the
Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments) protect citizens in the United States
from overzealous government officials such as Mr. Gates. Unfortunately,
caught up in the fervor of their misguided attempt to win the war on drugs,
police and drug agents consistently trample the Bill of Rights. This blatant
disregard often goes unrevised because citizens are ignorant of their
rights and therefore fail to assert them.
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& Punishment | Marijuana Defined | Separating Seeds And Stems | | Marijuana vs. Hashish vs. Hashish
Oil | Marijuana Terms Defined | The Crime of Possessing Marijuana | Big Brother is watching | Facts About Marijuana | Drug Testing | Encounters
with the Police | Law on Growing Marijuana | The Marijuana Garden and the Law | Marijuana and Driving | The
Law on Marijuana and Religion | Maijuana
and your car | Marijuana and your
home | Federal Law on Marijuana | Marijuana Penilties
The sale and distribution of Marijuana (Marijuana Pipes) | A usable amount of Marijuana | How
to Make Hash
The History of Cannabis
CANNABIS HAS BEEN GROWING ON THIS PLANET for thousands, maybe millions
of years, quite some time before human intervention. Cannabis can be grown
nearly anywhere as long as the temperature is not consistently cold and
there is enough sunlight and food for the plant to flourish. In Asia,
you can travel to various regions around Mongolia and visit the cannabis
plant growing naturally on hillsides and across vast plains, sometimes
covering entire hill faces and spreading across the valley below. The
origins of cannabis are not entirely clear, but biologists and cannabis
researchers generally agree that the plant first took root somewhere in
the Himalayas.
The cannabis plant has managed to travel across the globe without the
involvement of humans. Marijuana seeds have been carried by the wind, in bird
droppings and has attached itself to animals that trek over long distances,
thus globally dispersing the plant, naturally.
Today, human intervention has forced the cannabis plant to be grown under
more controlled conditions and in areas where the plant would not have
previously existed. It is estimated that there are between two and twelve
different cannabis strains growing wild in countries that have not culled
the plant, but there could be more. These wild strains, known as landrace
strains, are often cultivated by local residents for their hemp material
and herbal qualities. The Afghani plant, which has been used by many a
cannabis plant breeder to create strains like Kush, Master Kush and the
Hash Plant, is a well-known landrace strain. Farmed hybrid strains often
make their way back into the wild, creating new landrace strains. In Afghanistan
in particular, there are now several different strains of Afghani growing
in the wild.
Wild cannabis plants are rarer in countries that have tried to eliminate
the plant by burning fields and conditioning woodlands. In certain countries
the cannabis plant has been identified as a dangerous drug and has been
all but eradicated by government and law-enforcement officials. It is
treated as a noxious weed that induces social, mental and physical problems.
Despite the fact that the reasoning behind these attitudes is not well
founded, the cull of cannabis continues. Highly adaptable, however, the
cannabis plant has survived these attempts at eradication in secret indoor
and outdoor grow spaces around the world.
Cannabis was used for many things other than the extraction of tetrahydro-cannabinol
(THC).* Until the late 1800s or early 1900s our ancestors used hemp to
make clothing and various materials, from paper and rope to fuel. Hemp
is a strong, durable material that can withstand large amounts of stress
and is widely regarded as one of the best materials for producing fabrics.
A pair of pants made from hemp will stand the test of time and be far
superior to cotton. This should provide some clues as to why the fabric
industry wanted to stop the cultivation of marijuana in the late 1800s.
Hemp-fabric products last longer than cotton-fabric products; thus buyers
purchase less over a longer period of time.
Although cannabis prohibition is a booming industry that creates jobs
and capital, if cannabis were decriminalized these lost jobs and profits
could be derived.
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Sativa | Flowering | Growing
Indoors | Indoor Environmental Control | Indoor Growing Methods | Indoor
and Outdoor Growing | Propagation
and Germination | Separating Seeds
and Stems | Strains and Species | Breeding Marijuana
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Issues | Growing Cannabis | Cannabis
Seeds | Flowering | Harvesting
Buds | Hydroponics | Indoor
Control | Indoor Growing Methods | Making Hash | Marijuana
Preditors | Caring for mature
Marijuana Plants | Outdoor growing | Solving Growing Problems
Information on Hemp and Cannabis
Roth
hemp and marijuana are by-products of the Cannabis plant — an extraordinarily
useful plant, a plant that mankind has exploited in virtually every way,
for thousands of years. What is it about hemp, or Cannabis, that causes
such a diversity of opinion about it today? You would think that by now
we would know everything there is to know about it and long ago would
have come up with a way of minimizing any potential danger so that we
could enjoy its many benefits — just as we do with all the other
potentially dangerous products and commodities (from fire, guns and corrosive
chemicals to alcohol, tobacco, and automobiles) that we use in our everyday
lives.
Unfortunately,
the exact opposite is true because in 1937. despite Cannabis' beneficial
history, an unwitting U.S. Congress and President (Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
essentially outlawed the cultivation and use of hemp, for virtually any
purpose. Ostensibly, they were motivated by fear of the harmful effects
of an intoxicant; in reality, they were serving other interests. Most
of them had been duped into believing they were taxing the use of an allegedly
harmful drug — "marijuana," to discourage its use. In
fact, few if any of the congressmen who voted in favor of the Marijuana
Tax Act had ever heard the word "marijuana" before and didn't
know what it meant. They certainly didn't know that hemp and marijuana
came from the same Cannabis plant, and they were never told they were
actually outlawing hemp — a crop they were very familiar with because
most of them grew up with it on their family farm.
As
the quotation by Thomas Jefferson above so eloquently states, citizens
must be informed of their rights in order to preserve them and remain
free. The purpose of this book is to inform marijuana users of their rights
and how to protect and assert them.
This book is based on both federal and state law. The federal law is applicable
to all people in the U.S. regardless of their state of residence. The
state law discussed will likewise be applicable to just about every reader,
regardless of his or her state of residence. Forty-eight states, as well
as the District of Columbia, have adopted the same basic anti-drug laws
known as the Uniform Controlled Substances Act or the Uniform Narcotic
Drug Act. In these states, the laws are generally identical except with
respect to sentencing. The only two states that have not adopted the U.C.S.A.
or U.N.D.A. are New Hampshire and Vermont; however, the law in those states
is nearly identical to that in all the others.
After reading this book, you will be armed with a thorough understanding
of your legal rights in general and specifically with regard to marijuana.
An emphasis will be placed on protections under the United States Constitution.
For example, you will learn when a police officer can legally stop you,
when he can search you, when you have to be read your rights, what to
do if an officer comes to your home with a search warrant, and how to
counter many questionable police tactics simply by knowing and asserting
your rights.
Many of the examples in this book are taken from actual court cases. Occasional
factual changes have been made to help illustrate particular principles.
As a final comment, I should note that although this book was initially
written in the early part of 1992 and completely updated and revised in
late 1996, the law is always changing. Therefore, if you retain a lawyer
to defend you on a marijuana charge you should follow his or her advice
whenever it conflicts with this book.
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Definition of Hemp | Hemp History | Hemp Developement |
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Medicine | Cannabis Plant | Cannabis
Seeds | Hemp Constitution | Hemp
Cottin Pickin | Hemp History | Hemp
Religion | Hemp Revolution
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