Archive for October, 2007
Extreme Make Over : Home Edition
Extreme MakeOver : Home Edition is have a special “Green” Edition tonight at 8 ET on ABC. I doubt they’d have any hemp products on the show. I’ll check it out an see.
A Week of cannabis
Past week of cannabis related news.
A few people get Uncle Sam’s weed
Uncle Sam prescribes marijuana for 68-year-old Elvy Musikka of Eugene, one of seven test subjects in a little-known federal medical marijuana program.
Missoula County attorney to police: Halt misdemeanor arrests for pot
Nearly a year after voters made the Garden City a little greener [...]
Cannabis Quote 8: Hugh Downs
“In today’s anti-drug climate, people don’t want to hear about the commercial potential of marijuana. The reason is that the flowering top of a female hemp plant contains a drug. But from 1842 through the 1890s a powerful concentrated extract of marijuana was the second most prescribed drug in the United States. In all that [...]
Cannabis Quote 7: Carl Sagan
“The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.”
- Carl Sagan
Cannabis Quote 6: Jimmy Carter
“Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself; and where they are, they should be changed. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marihuana in private for personal use… Therefore, I support legislation amending Federal law to [...]
Cannabis Quote 5: Louis Armstrong
“It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.”
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Cannabis Quote 4: Dan Quayle
“Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana… We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society.”
- Dan Quayle U.S. Representative and Vice president (March 1977)
Outlawing marijuana a waste of time
For 21 years, Alvin L. Arnold served as a federal law-enforcement agent on the Canadian and Mexican borders. He arrested smugglers, confiscated marijuana, Cuban cigars, heroin and other drugs. Having removed what he thought was a significant amount of drugs from our streets, Arnold now sadly know he accomplished little beyond bringing a serious problem [...]
VeggieGirl’s Almond-Butter-Hemp Cookies
VeggieGirl’s modified Almond-Butter-Hemp Cookie recipe made with hemp milk. Recipes is near the bottom of the post.
Side Note: I wonder how Hemp Milk tastes. I doubt we have any store selling it in the Virgin Islands. I’ll check later today.
Cannabis Quote 3: Terence McKenna
“If the words “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” don’t include the right to experiment with your own consciousness, then the Declaration of Independence isn’t worth the hemp it was written on.”
- Terence McKenna
