Hemp plant was considered an "angel" or messenger of the gods

Finally an interesting study of the infamous "Weed" banned in many societies.

Take the profit out of it and legalize it.

Then our police can spend some time on real crime instead of busting so many people for possession or use of marjuiana.

Side effect is the drug lords will go broke like the rest of us in America in this recession.

Those drug peddlers would like to see whine for once.

At the very least make medical marijuana a reality in all 50 states in the good old USA.

Good find Jubal! Thanks for posting!

Dope make people poor workers. Dope make people less effective consumers for the trash that big corporations produce. Dope may even make people more ethical.

"This is Big Business. This is Big Business on dope. Any Questions?"

I really enjoyed that Jubal. THANKS !!

Seems like almost every day now somebody is coming up with a piece of esoteric information about cannabis I'd never heard of before. I enjoy an association with the weed that spans 40 years but actual participation has been off & on. Surprise, surprise. You can actually quit if you want to. I went through a period where I didn't smoke at all; more 10 years worth. Try that number with alcohol. But I digress.

I think most everybody has heard the psalm that starts, "The Lord is my shepherd..." In the middle of that the verse includes "anointed my head with oil". I always wondered about that.

I mean what kind of oil would you put on your head? And why would this procedure be mentioned in the bible rather than a skit by the 3 stooges? Obviously at one point there was meaning to this or it wouldn't be included there.

In my time I've seen & smoked hash oil. A potent sucker; that one. Pass that pipe around and the room starts sounding like a tuberculous ward. But I can't visualize putting it on my head. That would turn you into an original greaser. Folks could smell you coming from a block away.
You'd probably have to use a turpentine rinse to get it out.

So I guess my question is whether it's possible that cannabis oil was the reference in the bible quote? During that period of history there were a number of oils or "essence" used. Is this one? Truly, I don't know. But it's interesting.

Anybody done more reading on this than I?

Jubal, DuPont and Hearst got weed iilegalized (is that a word?) I would like to know WHY?

Well it would make sense that marijuana was considered divine given the fawning, obsessive worship lain upon it by potheads everywhere.

There has to be a way to legalize it without using our idiot lawmakers?

Drugs could be a positive force if used sacredly instead of being left in the realm of criminals and thugs.

Love it.

Great Educational post, Jubal!...WHERE does "Blue-Bud" grow?...I've never even heard of it !

i agree with most peoples responses on here. I was arrested for possesion and the didt find anything on me it was in my friends car i happened to be driving. The police completly wasted their time taking me downtown when they could have been busting a real criminal.

Its time to realize that just like the prohabition days, saying no to Americans will make us do whatever you dont like plus more. The laws need to be rethought

ADVANCES HEMP HAS TO THE US ECONOMY:

(1.) 1 acre of hemp will produce as much fiber as 2 to 3 acres of cotton. Hemp fiber is softer, warmer, stronger, and more water absorbent than cotton, and lasts twice as long as cotton. Hemp is naturally hardy and drought tolerant and grows well without herbicides, pesticides or fertilizers. Twenty-five percent of all the pesticides used in the U.S. are applied to cotton.

(2.) 1 acre of hemp will produce as much paper as 2 to 4 acres of trees. Trees take hundreds of years to grow and hemp only takes 4 months to grow. We just found a solution to saving the trees! Hemp paper can be recycled 7 times, wood pulp 4 times.

(3.) Hemp seed oil can be used to produce non-toxic diesel fuel, paint, varnish, detergent, ink and lubricating oil. We just found a solution to use alternative fuels for cars rather than being defendant on oil! (Or fossil fuels) HEMP ETHANOL! Here's Vanguard Video on Ethanol: http://current.com/items/89110290/food_fight.htm

(4.) Hemp seed is nutritious and contains more essential fatty acids than any other source. Soybeans come in second place. Hemp seed is not psychoactive and cannot be used as a drug because THC levels are too low to get high! Hemp is not marijuana.

(5.) Hemp fiber can produce cars. Over two million cars on the road today have hemp composite parts for door panels, dashboards, luggage racks, etc. They are doing it in Germany for Mercedes and BMW.

FACT: Hemp is Earth's number-one biomass resource. IT IS A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY and would stimulus the economy and generate jobs in a massive way!

Marijuana FACT:
-Deaths from marijuana use: 0
-Deaths from aspirin (U.S. per year): 180 - 1,000 +
-Deaths from legal drugs (U.S. per year) at doses used for prevention, diagnosis, or therapy: 106,000

Why not legalize marijuana? Why not use it as a medical use nationwide? It would be no diferen't for alcohol use. The harmless drug would hurt the black market. It would save tax dollars from nonviolence offenders. THE DEA SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON THE REAL HARSH DRUGS LIKE COCAINE AND HEROIN RATHER THAN HARMLESS MARIJUANA WHICH CAN BE USED AS A NATURAL RESOURCE OF MEDICINE.

OG post was great and all the comments are awesome! Good info!