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    Ok, like welcome to the second issue of PhAdE. I was Bored so I decided 
to write a Phile. Like This phile is on Marijauna. Well I wrote some of it 
and copied some from other .TXT files... So here you go Live and in yo face...
  
Omega

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PART I       
  
     The ancient drug Marijauna has been around since about 2700 b.c.
It's Scientific name is "Cannibis Sativa", grows throughout the world 
and flourishes most temperate and tropical regions. One of humanity's
oldest cultivated nonfood plants, it appears to have orginated somwhere 
in Asia.      
     The substance called "marijuana" can be made up of any part of the 
plant, but is generally a mixture of the crushed leaves, flowers, and even
small branches of the plant. Over the past 20 years, there has been much 
controversy regarding the toxicity of marijuana and the effects of its 
widespread use on public health and social welfare.  Several governmet 
reports have addressed the concerns, and additional reports are certain 
to follow in the near future until they finally give in and legalz it.

      Marijauna at mild doses does no more than most alchol ans less than
some. However, higher doses of THC or Marijauna may produce euphoria, 
hallucinations, and heightened sensation, effects similar to a mild LSD 
experience.  Also, unlike the sedatives, high doses of THC do no produce
anesthesia, coma, or death ,and therefore is not lethal. Similarily, there 
appears to be a little cross tolerance between THC and LSD on one hand or 
between THC and the sedative-hypnotic compounds on the other. Thus, the 
THC contained in the various preperations of "Cannabis" is only superficially
related to either the sedatives or the psychedelics.

     The courts have often classified the products from "Cannabis sativa"
with the opiates as narcotics. As well known and appreciated today, marijuana
and hashish are not narcotics.They are pharmacologically quite distinct from
them. Cannabis products are currently used in the U.S. chiefly in the form
of marijuana although potent cannabis products are not as frequently 
encountered, and, even when they are, are normally used is very small 
quantities. It is only in very high doses of THC that Cannabis resembles 
that psychedelics in its pharmacological effects. Thus, at least for the 
present discussion, THC will be classified as a unique psychoactive drug. 
The structure of THC does not resemble that of any known or suspected chemical
transmitter, and its mechanism of action remains unknown.

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OK PART ][ 

     This is a list of the most common and toughest questions and concerns
we've gotten on the street talking to people about hemp re-legalization, 
although this is not NEAR complete this is a pretty good list. In order to 
get our hemp rap tighter and thus be more effective, we should all know good
answers to these questions. 
 
QUESTIONS

1)  What is hemp? 
 
     For our purposes, hemp is the plant called `cannabis sativa.'  There
are other plants that are called hemp, but cannabis hemp is the most useful
of these plants.  In fact, `cannabis sativa' means `useful (sativa) hemp
(cannabis)'. 

     `Hemp' is any durable plant that has been used since pre-history for
many purposes.  Fiber is the most well known product,  and the word `hemp'
can mean the rope or twine which is made from the hemp plant, as well as
just the stalk of the plant that produced it.


2)  What is cannabis? 

     Cannabis is the most durable of the hemp plants, and it produces the
toughest cloth, called `canvass.'  [Canvass was widely used as sails in the
early shipping industry, as it was the only cloth which would not rot on
contact with sea spray]  The cannabis plant also produces three other very
important products which the other hemp plants do not [in usable form, that
is]: pulp, seed, and medicine.

     The pulp is used as fuel, and to make paper.  The seed is suitable for
both human and animal foods.  The medicine is a tincture or admixture of
the sticky resin in the blossoms and leaves of the hemp plant, and is used
for a variety of purposes.


3)  Where did the word `marijuana' come from? 
 
     The word `marijuana' is a Mexican slang term which became popular in
the late 1930's in America, during a series of media and government
programs which we now refer to as the `Reefer Madness Movement.'  It refers
specifically to the medicine part of cannabis.

     Today in the U.S., hemp (meaning the roots, stalk, and stems of the
cannabis plant) is legal to possess.  No one can arrest you for wearing a
hemp shirt, or using hemp paper.  Marijuana (The flowers, buds, or leaves
of the cannabis plant) is not legal to possess, and there are stiff fines
and possible jail terms for having any marijuana in your possession.  The
seeds are legal to possess and eat, but only if they are sterilized (will
not bloom.)

     Since it is not possible to grow the hemp plant without being in
possession of marijuana, the United States does not produce any industrial
hemp products, and must import them or substitute others.


4)   How can hemp be used as a fuel? 
 
     The pulp (hurd) of the hemp plant can be burned as fuel or processed
into charcoal, methanol, methane, or gasoline.  The process for doing this
is called destructive distillation, or `pyrolysis.'  Fuels made out of 
plants like this are called `biomass' fuels.


 5)  Could hemp ever be used instead of petroleum or gas? 

     Biomass fuels are clean and free from metals and sulfur, but more
importantly, the carbon dioxide which is released when you burn biomass
fuels did not come from under the ground, it came from the air.  This way,
the total amount of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere does not
change.  When petroleum products are burned, carbon is added to the air,
this may contribute to global warming through the ``Greenhouse Effect,'' [a
popular theory which says that certain gasses will act like a blanket over
the entire Earth, preventing heat from escaping into space.]

 

6)  What's wrong with all the other drugs we have, and why is hemp not bad? 

     They cost money and are hard to make.  In some cases, they do not work
as well, either.  Some prescription drugs which marijuana can replace have
very bad side effects.  Cannabis medicines are cheap, safe, and easy to make. 


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PART ]I[
 
   Here is a smaller part about how "Mary Jane" used to be used....

     The United States Department of Agriculture first proposed making paper 
from hemp pulp in the early 1930's.  Production had to wait, though, until 
somebody made a machine to separate the hemp pulp (hurd) from the fiber (bast)
cheaply.

     In the meantime, a group of companies -- Dupont chemicals, Hearst
paper and timber, and several others, developed a new way to make whiter
paper out of trees.  Just when they got all their patents and business
dealings worked out in 1936, someone invented the hemp `decorticating'
machine.

     Since hemp paper is cheaper to make, this threatened to put all of the
tree-paper companies out of business.  A huge sum of capital was tied up in
making tree pulp paper and shipping it for sale.  Most of the tree-paper
people were very powerful and had a lot of government connections.  One of
them, William Randolph Hearst, even owned an entire newspaper chain.

     In 1937, they launched a country-wide campaign to put a prohibitive
tax on hemp.  This was the first `Reefer Madness Movement'  (The second
came in the 70's under Nixon.)  This is when we began to call cannabis
`marijuana.'  `Marijuana' is a Mexican slang term which was relatively
obscure until the newspapers made it a household word -- synonymous with
evil.

     The Hearst newspapers played all the angles.  Articles were written
specifically to horrify the public about the dangers of marijuana.  Stories
were concocted about `axe-murderers' and sensationalistic tactics were used
to blame hienous crimes on marijuana.  The articles often took racist
overtones, in order to capitalize on the then prevalent feelings of the
average American towards Blacks, and Mexicans.


      Wait -- why didn't we pass a better law?  Why didn't somebody say
something about hemp and stop them?  How do you expect me to believe that
no one knew marijuana was really cannabis?

     Well, did you know all the stuff about cannabis that was in the first
section?  If so, you are a rare bird, my friend.  [During Reefer Madness
II, all mention of the word `hemp' was pretty much removed from our high-
school curriculums, museums, history books, etc.]

     By the time the 1937 Tax Act [which proposed to levy a prohibitive tax
on the sale of small quantities of marijuana] reached Congress, the country
was in an uproar over `that killer weed with roots in hell, marijuana.' 
The average American citizen was totally unaware that marijuana and
cannabis hemp were the same plant [most of them didn't know where their
clothes used to come from, anyway, because synthetic fabrics had just
become popular.]
  
     Those that did know decided to put their faith in other, newer crops
and technology.  This was before anyone could see how ecologically
devastating these crops and technologies would become.  Senators were
inundated with mail from parents groups and organized grass roots lobbying. 
To them it was a simple issue of obeying the will of the people -- or not
getting re-elected!

     This is not to say that no one protested, just that they were a small
voice in the din of Reefer Madness.  Numerous industries sent
representatives to protest the usefulness of hemp.  One of the loudest
protesters, though, was the American Medical Association, which could not
believe that the Congress would try to ban a useful medicine like cannabis,
and was angered that they had not been told that the `two' plants,
marijuana and cannabis, were one in the same when they were asked for
endorsement.

     The neurotic answer:  Marijuana?  Eeek!  Don't you know that stuff is
dangerous?  People don't make laws for no good reason, you know!  Where did
you hear about marijuana?  Wait!  Don't tell me, I don't want to know.  If
anybody even knew you thought it should be legal -- well -- they'd never
talk to you again!  Don't you know that marijuana this... marijuana that...
...  ...   ...

The only reason it isn't legal today is cause we have not yet stood up 
together and said:


`` THIS IS STUPID!! I WANT CANNABIS HEMP LEGAL!!! FOR PRODUCTS; FOR MEDICINE;
FOR FOOD; FOR FUN; FOR GOODNESS'S SAKE!  ISN'T THAT WHAT LIFE'S ALL ABOUT ? ''

     Without large-scale grass roots support, marijuana will never be
legal.  Every person that stands up for marijuana/hemp legalization makes
us that much stronger, and our voices that much louder.  Believe me, we
appreciate all the support we get.  Almost as importantly, it makes it that
much harder for people to say ``that's a stupid idea'' or ``nobody really
believes that.''
     If you aren't convinced yet, I encourage you to learn more about the
issues.  Try the sources listed at the end.
     If you're with us, let us know!  Let everybody know, unless it will
get you canned or arrested, but most importantly, keep an eye on what's
going on, and try to lend a hand when you can.  Also, know your stuff, so
if you have to, you can convince a friend or loved one that *you* are not
nuts -- the rest of the world is.

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Closing

Ok there is Phile 2.. Phile 3 should be out soon.. Hope you liked it if 
not "SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS"...
Omega 



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