Cannabis Trivia

• Marijuana is created from the dried, shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis Sativa L. Contrary to the label given to it by the government, marihuana is not a narcotic.
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• "Cannabis indica is one of the best additions to cough mixtures that we possess, as it quiets the tickling in the throat, and yet does not constipate or depress the system as does morphine." — Practical Therapeutics (1895)
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• The December, 1941 edition of Popular Mechanics Magazine (Vol 76. No. 6) reported that the Ford Motor Company had completed 12 years of research and has assembled a prototype plastic body car made from 70 percent fiber (wheat straw, hemp) and 30 percent resin. The plastic panels could withstand a blow 10 times greater than steel without denting; the car weighed 1000 lbs less (see picture above).
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• The term 'marihuana' was a slang Mexican term for cannabis or hashish and was not used to describe pot until the feds coined this term in the Marihuana Tax Stamp Act of 1937. It is thought the term was used to confuse the medical community and the booming hemp industry to avoid heated opposition.
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• In early 1942, Japan cut off the US supply of vital hemp and fibers. Hemp and marijuana, which was outlawed in the United States as the "Assassin of Youth" just five years earlier, was suddenly "safe enough" for our government to ask the kids in the Kentucky 4-H clubs to grow the nation's 1943 seed supply. It is estimated that the U.S. Government distributed 400,000 pounds of cannabis Sativa seeds to American farmers in 1942 to aid the World War II war effort.
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• For thousands of years (until 1842), marijuana and hashish extracts were the most widely-used medicines in the world.
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• Hemp was poised to become a billion dollar crop in the U.S. in 1938 (just before World War II).
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• Fiorello La Guardia, mayor of New York, was against the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937. Skeptical of the government's propaganda, he a commissioned a six-year study by a group of 31 scientists. His commission published a report that scientifically disproved all of the propaganda and ridiculous claims that had been made about smoking marijuana. FBN Head Anslinger used the press to discredit the report and destroyed every copy of this report his agents could locate. He then blocked further research by restricting the availability of marijuana for medical study.
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• In 1972, twenty-five year old Vietnam veteran Don Crowe was convicted of selling marijuana to an undercover cop. It was his first offense and the amount of marijuana was under an ounce. He was sentenced to 50 years in prison.
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• Marijuana was America's number one analgesic for 60 years until the rediscovery of aspirin around 1900. From 1842 to 1900 cannabis compounds made up half of all medicines sold.
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• The cannabis plant can survive in nearly any environment and can grow one to two inches per day to a height of 18 feet.