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Fun facts about a fun weed


By Rena McCain

Happy Weedsday! I hope today finds you doing fine.

Since cannabis is pretty much considered mainstream these days, I thought that I would share with all of you beautiful people some known and some not-so-known facts about the cannabis plant and its history. It has been utilized over history for many reasons and through many applications. What an amazing plant!

  • There are four people in the US who not only can get legal marijuana, but the federal government sends it to them, free. I would love to be one of these people, wouldn’t you? www.NowIKnow.com/license-to-toke
  • The Scooby-Doo movie (2002) was originally going to be dark and PG-13, with marijuana jokes and a side relationship between Velma and Daphne. I bet that would have turned out differently! www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooby-Doo_(film)#production
  • In the United States, a sentence of life in prison without parole was given for trying to sell $10’s worth of marijuana to an undercover officer. There are still people today doing life for cannabis (#StopLockingPeopleInACageForAPlant). www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/opinion/sunday/sentenced-to-a-slow-death.html
  • The U.S. government’s “official expert” on Marijuana from 1938 to 1962 once testified in court, under oath, that he had smoked marijuana and it turned him into a bat. It puzzles me that we listen to our government when it is this irrational. www.DrugLibrary.org/schaffer/media/schaffer1.htm
  • Marijuana seeds are a source of all amino acids. They are one of only a handful of substances that man can sustain off indefinitely with no other food and provide all known amino acids. Hemp seeds are delicious on so many foods! www.en.wikibooks.org/wiki/marijuana_cultivation/fundamentals/parts_of_the_plant#seeds
  • The first arrest for marijuana possession and selling in the U.S. occurred in Denver, Colorado on October 2, 1937. www.Princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/marihuana_tax_act-of_1937.html
  • There has never been any reported deaths linked to overdosing on marijuana. Amazing and true! www.WebMD.com/smoking-cessation/news/20030918/marijuana-smoking-doesn’t-kill
  • Although cannabis is illegal in Australia, there’s a town in New South Wales that engages in weed tourism where cannabis is both sold and grown openly. Pretty cool, if you ask me! www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbin,_New_South_Wales
  • The Hollywood sign was changed by a prankster in 1976 to read “Hollyweed†after the passage of a state law decriminalizing marijuana. www.articles.latimes.com/2007/jan/27/local/me-finegood27
  • Every major study of marijuana policy in the last one hundred years has found that marijuana prohibition is a mistake which does more harm than good. True over and over again. www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/media/schaffer1.htm
  • Hemp can be used for many things like rope, clothes and even technology. One of the oddest uses of a hemp rope was for transporting giant pieces of stone, specifically the ones that make up the humongous Easter Island statues. Some people theorized that aliens helped out in the creation of these statues due to how big they were and how limited our technology was during that time period. Nope, no aliens, just marijuana. www.livescience.com/24312-easter-island-statues-walked.html
  • Refusing to grow hemp in America during the 17th and 18th centuries was against the law. You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769. (G.M. Herdon. Hemp in Colonial Virginia)
  • Marijuana has been legal for personal use in Alaska since 1975, and it’s still legal today. www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_the_United_States#Alaska
  • A pair of scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco found that a compound derived from marijuana could stop metastasis in many kinds of aggressive cancer, potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever. www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/19/marijuana-and-cancer_n_1898208.html
Rena McCain is a co-founder of the Cannabis Open Carry Walks. Find her on Facebook at Rena McCain, or via Twitter @sassikatt24 and Instagram at ganja_grrl420.

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