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On my mission to explore hemp fashion, I volunteer in a hemp fashion show because you can't really know hemp by looking at it, you gotta walk a runway in it. Not only do I learn how to do the hemp strut, I also learn a really surprising fact about hemp–one that will fire up your inner activist and send you straight to Vote Hemp’s website to learn more.On my mission to explore hemp fashion, I volunteer in a hemp fashion show because you... more
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The godfather of the hemp movement, talks within the picture window on the pages of his book The Emperor Wears No Clothes.The godfather of the hemp movement, talks within the picture window on the pages of... more
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A clip from the 2000 documentary THESE ARE NOT SEPARATE ISSUES, Jack Herer speaks out on the #1 renewable resource... Canabis Hemp. Produced for Very Strange Productions by EEEE and Lindsey East.
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It's generally believed that the number one product from California's number one industry isn't legal. Agriculture remains the Golden State's biggest business, and some believe marijuana is worth $14 billion. No one really knows for sure.
The LEGAL medical marijuana business is estimated by advocates to be worth up to $2 billion. Legal, that is, in the state's eyes. It's still illegal under federal law.
Today I'm reporting on the business of selling pot legally, the costs and challenges that go with it. Twelve years after California was the first state to make medical marijuana legal, many clinics are still raided as criminal enterprises (and some are--even under state law), and many others remain paranoid, having come from an underground culture that has pervaded the industry for so long.
Then there are those pushing for openness, transparency, ethics, and standardized practices. In the face of almost no regulatory standards, they're developing their own, and making money doing so.
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Augustana sociology professor Geraint B. Osborne is of the opinion that people who use marihuana are no more a criminal threat to society than are alcohol and cigarette users.
"Some people argue that drug use leads to crime, and that somehow those who use drugs are in such an altered state they don't know what they are doing and have to go out and hurt someone or get involved in acts of vandalism," said Osborne, whose study, Understanding the Motivations for Recreational Marihuana Use Among Adult Canadians, was published in the spring edition of the journal Substance Use and Misuse. "What I found in the research, with the people we talked to, was that doesn't happen. It doesn't make you want to go out and do those types of things."
The study surveyed 41 employed Canadians ranging in age from 21 to 61, including 25 men and 16 women, whose use of the drug ranged from daily to once or twice a year. They were predominantly middle class and worked in the retail and service industries, in communications, as white-collar employees, or as health-care and social workers. Sixty-eight per cent of the users held post-secondary degrees, while another 11 survey participants had earned their high school diploma.
Osborne was assisted with the study by former Augustana student Curtis Fogel, who went on to do his MA work at Memorial University in Newfoundland, and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Calgary.
"The reason for doing it was largely influenced by my reading of the report on the Senate special committee on illegal drugs, which had looked into the decriminalization and legislation of cannabis back in 2001 and 2002," said Osborne. "A lot of their research focused on people who abused the drug: people from socially marginalized backgrounds who used the drug in almost an addictive manner. Not a lot of ethnographic or qualitative research had been done on recreational marihuana use, or how the rest of the population might be using it."
In conducting the interviews, Osborne found that most adult marihuana users regulate use to their recreational time and do not use compulsively. Rather, as he stated in the study, their use is purposively intended to enhance their leisure activities and manage the challenges and demands of living in contemporary modern society.
"Generally, participants reported using marihuana because it enhanced relaxation and concentration, making a broad range of leisure activities more enjoyable and pleasurable. That most participants made rational decisions to enhance recreation through moderate use, and reported no dependency or addictive problems, is probably related to their middle class status: they are well educated, gainfully employed, can afford to be engaged in a host of hobbies and interest, and as one participant put it, 'have more important things to do than just sit around stone all day.' In other words, there was nothing in their immediate social environment to suggest that they were using marihuana as a way of escaping or retreating from any significant social or psychological ills."
The majority of users also indicated they employed certain rules that many of us employ when it comes to the use of alcohol. Most said they wouldn't drive while intoxicated from alcohol or marihuana, that they wouldn't use it around children, and that they would only use it in the privacy of their own home.
"Some said they would use it in public but only in a concert situation, where others were using it as well," said Osborne.
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