Hemp is the term used for the male and marijuana is the term used to describe the female cannabis plant. There are many subspecies but, all females are psychoactive and all males are not.
Did you know that hemp was directly responsible for the Roman Empire's success in conquering the world. Armor, clothing, shoes, tack for horses, cooking oil, etc. were all made from hemp. kris --- Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The hemp plant has no psychoactive properties. > Cultivating hemp can > help replenish spent soil. Hemp can grow almost anywhere, > and > requires far less pesticides than many other cash crops, > such as > cotton. Hemp can be used for fuel, fiber, food, medicine, > and > industry. Hemp seed is highly nutritious. Hemp fiber is > durable and > strong. Extractums made from hemp were a valued medicine > for > thousands of years, but prohibition in the 1930s ended > all of that. > Why was this valuable renewable resource prohibited? > Evidence > suggests a special-interest group that included the > DuPont > petrochemical company, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew > Mellon > (Dupont's major financial backer), and the newspaper man > William > Randolph Hearst mounted a yellow journalism campaign > against hemp. > Hearst deliberately confused psychoactive marijuana with > industrial > hemp, one of humankind's oldest and most useful > resources. DuPont and > Hearst were heavily invested in timber and petroleum > resources, and > saw hemp as a threat to their empires. Petroleum > companies also knew > that petroleum emits noxious, toxic byproducts when > incompletely > burned, as in an auto engine. In 1937 DuPont, Mellen and > Hearst were > able to push a "marijuana" prohibition bill through > Congress in less > than three months, which destroyed the domestic hemp > industry. > > From : Hemp Powered Car Tours US, Canada > http://www.freezerbox.com/archive/2000/12/hemp/ > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
