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Re: Curious, if true
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Sun, 3 Mar 2002 23:03:52 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Fredrik Glöckner writes:
> "Pedro Silva" <el_gordo@netc.pt> writes:
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> > Today's newspaper had an interesting article about possible uses for
> > cannabis, besides the obvious "smoke it" one; one of the many uses
> > mentioned was paper, and as an example they mentioned the American
> > Declaration of Independance, along with Gutenberg's Bible. Is this
> > true?
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> When I visited Berlin in the mid-nineties, I bought half a kilo of hemp
> seeds to bring home. This was the non-THC variant. It tastes good and
> is very healthy. I used it in my breakfast cereals!
Have you tried the tea?
> When it comes to the American constitution, the quote is supposed to be:
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> "Make the most you can out of the new Indian hemp seed, and sow it
> everywhere."
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> I don't know if it is true. You can do a search on the internet for the
> quote and see what you can find.
I fear the results... :-D
By the time the US constitution was written, the drug issue was still not a
social problem: all drugs were smoked (as opposed to the current IV ones).
So it is fair to think the general public would be less worried with growing
hemp (which is, after all, not much different from tobacco) or any other
smoke-drug.
Pedro
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| (...) No, I haven't. The seeds are good for their nutritional values, but I don't know about the tea. (...) I don't know when the habit of smoking hemp started, but you are probably correct that it was not a social problem at the time. The alleged (...) (23 years ago, 4-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) When I visited Berlin in the mid-nineties, I bought half a kilo of hemp seeds to bring home. This was the non-THC variant. It tastes good and is very healthy. I used it in my breakfast cereals! When it comes to the American constitution, the (...) (23 years ago, 3-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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