Hemp: American History Revisited: The Plant with a Divided HistoryA look at major events in U.S. and world history as they influenced, and as they may have been influenced by, the cultivation and use of hemp. |
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Page 57 - That on the first day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free; and the executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authority thereof...
Page 41 - Delaware, December 7, 1787; Pennsylvania. December 12, 1787; New Jersey, December 18, 1787; Georgia, January 2, 1788; Connecticut, January 9, 1788; Massachusetts. February 6, 1788; Maryland, April 28, 1788; South Carolina, May 23, 1788; New Hampshire, June 21, 1788; Virginia, June 26, 1788; and New York, July 26, 1788.
Page 57 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Page 183 - We do not recommend legalization because we believe that marijuana is "safe" or "harmless." No drug is safe or harmless to all people at all dosage levels or under all conditions of use. Our recommendation arises out of the conviction that an orderly system of legal distribution and licit use will have notable advantages for both users and nonusers over the present marijuana black market. In particular it will separate the channels of marijuana distribution from heroin channels and from the channels...
Page 98 - The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the Prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
Page 127 - There is as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.
Page 149 - Prisons to show the number of prisoners who have been found addicted to the marihuana habit. An informal inquiry shows that the Bureau of Prisons has no evidence on that point. You have been told that school children are great users of marihuana cigarettes. No one has been summoned from the Children's Bureau to show the nature and extent of the habit, among children. Inquiry...
Page 20 - ... duties or of express prohibition. FLAX AND HEMP. Manufactures of these articles have so much affinity to each other, and they are so often blended, that they may with advantage be considered in conjunction. The importance of the linen branch to agriculture ; its precious effects upon household industry; the ease with which the materials can be produced at home to any requisite extent; the great advances which have been already made in the coarser fabrics of them, especially in the family...
Page 182 - I think it would be exactly the wrong step. It would simply encourage more and more of our young people to start down the long, dismal road that leads to hard drugs and eventually self-destruction. 22 After these remarks, which received considerable attention in the press, the commission chairman defensively contended that the president had expressed a "personal opinion," and that the commission in no way felt bound by it.
Page 106 - It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it — Upton Sinclair 12 BATTLE FOR THE DARK TOWER: NOT A CONTEST AFTER ALL?
Bibliographic information
| Title | Hemp: American History Revisited: The Plant with a Divided History |
| Author | Robert Deitch |
| Publisher | Algora Publishing, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0875862268, 9780875862262 |
| Length | 232 pages |
| Subjects | › › › Body, Mind & Spirit / Entheogens & Visionary Substances Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science |
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