FAQ_2.txt TEXTBOBO~&33mBIN------------------------------------------------------------------------ #1. Cannabis has no toxicity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the United States, 350,000+ deaths occur each year resulting directly, or primarily from the use of tobacco. A further 125,000+ deaths occur each year from alcohol abuse, (not including the 50% of all road accident deaths and 65% of all murders). Despite numerous studies attempting to prove the opposite, cannabis has no toxicity, and medical history does not record anyone ever dying from a cannabis "overdose". In fact, you are doing yourself more harm drinking a cup of tea than using cannabis. (Figures are for 1987 from the US's federal governments Bureau of Mortality Statistics and the National Institute on Drug Abuse). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #2. Cannabis is Beneficial for 80% of asthmatics. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ More than 15 million Americans are affected by asthma. Smoking cannabis would be beneficial for 80% of them, and add between 30 to 60 million person-years to current asthmatics, over presently legal toxic medicines. (The use of cannabis for asthmatics goes back thousands of years in literature). American doctors of the last century wrote that sufferers of asthma would "bless" Indian Hemp (cannabis) plant all their lives. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #3. People were Jailed for not growing Cannabis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Whilst cannabis cultivation has only been outlawed for a relatively short period, (the last fifty years), the first cannabis cultivation laws were enacted in Virginia (US) in 1619. But these Laws were ordering all the farmers, (if not doing so already), to start growing cannabis. By 1632 mandatory cannabis cultivation laws were also enacted in Massachusetts and Connecticut, and during periods of shortage in America, (eg.between 1763 and 1767), you could even be jailed for not growing cannabis! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #4. Cannabis is the most advanced plant on the planet. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The cannabis (or "hemp") plant is botanically one of the most advanced plants on the planet. Its fibre is, overall, the strongest, most durable, longest-lasting natural soft-fibre in the world. It is dioecious: It is male, female, and sometimes hermaphroditic, (male and female on the same plant), and is capable of changing sex when necessary. It is a woody, herbaceous annual that uses the sun more efficiently than virtually any other plant, reaching a robust 12-20 feet or more in one short growing season. It is, by far, Earth's premiere, renewable natural resource, and can be grown in virtually any climate or soil condition on the planet,even marginal ones. It can also rebuild the soil, clean the atmosphere, protect the ozone layer and reverse the greenhouse effect, all at the same time! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #5. Cannabis is more effective than glaucoma medicines. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fourteen percent of all blindness in America is due to glaucoma, a progressive loss of vision. Cannabis smoking would benefit 90% of the 2,500,000 victims, and is two to three times more effective than any current medicines for reducing ocular pressure. Also, cannabis has no toxic side effects to the liver or kidneys, or danger of the occasional sudden death syndromes associated with the legal glaucoma medicines. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #6. Over 80% of all Fabrics were made from Cannabis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Up until the earlier half of this century, 80% of all mankind's textiles and fabrics made principally from cannabis fibres. Ships sails, rigging, anchor ropes and nets, clothes, tents, linens, rugs, drapes, quilts, bed sheets, towels, and national flags included, even the Holy Bible was written and reproduced on cannabis hemp paper. In fact the word "canvas" is the Dutch pronunciation (twice removed, from French and Latin), of the Greek word "Kannabis". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #7. "KaNaBa" - One of the longest surviving root words. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The word "Kannabis", derived from the Persian and earlier Northern Semitics, has now been traced back over 6,000 years, to the Indo-Semitic-European language family based, Sumerian/Babylonian word "K(a)N(a)B(a)". "KN" meaning cane and "B" meaning two (sexes), K(a)N(a)B(a) is one of man's longest surviving root words. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #8. Cannabis is the best agent for control of nausea. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Marijuana is the best agent for control of nausea in cancer chemotherapy," according to Dr. Thomas Ungerlieder, (who headed California's Marijuana for Cancer research program from 1979 to 1984). This is also true of all types of nausea, (including sea sickness, motion sickness and even AIDS related), and in extream cases, may extend a victims life. Pharmaceutical nausea control drugs come in pills, which are often swallowed by the patient only to be thrown back up. Because cannabis can be ingested as smoke, it stays in the system and keeps working even if the vomiting continues. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #9. Cannabis is Incredibly successful at Reducing Tumors. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Researchers at the Medical College of Virginia in 1975, discovered to their amazement that cannabis is incredibly successful at reducing tumors, both benign and malignant (cancerous). But when they found t hat, instead of the anticipated health problems, an apparent medical breakthrough occured, the DEA (who had originally ordered the tumor studies done), handed down orders to defund all further cannabis/tumor research and reporting.