After seeing lot of Negative and false reports and comments about the holy plant "ganja" I decided to start a thread about the most wrongly treated plant on the mother earth and reveal its potential as a precious herb.
Bhang,Bobby,Canna,Grass,Dope,Hemp,Herb,Spliff,Joint,Mary Jane,Kush,Mexican Green,Pot,Reefer,Pot,Puff,Marijuana,Weed - all these refers to the Cannabis Plant intended for use as a psychoactive Drug.
The use of the Cannabis Plant as psychoactive drug dates back to the 3rd Millenium BC and it has been widely used in India and Sri Lanka In Ayurvedic Medicine and Religious Activities for thousands of years.
In modern times Ganja is considered as an illegal narcotic almost everywhere in the world except few countries like Netherland, Canada etc (still they are technically illegal), But in recent years the western world is gradually understanding the true value of this plant and many countries are adopting lenient policy towards it while Sri Lanka hardening the marijuana related laws. More recently many political parties, non-profit organizations and causes based on the legalization of medical cannabis and/or legalizing the plant entirely (with some restrictions) have emerged worldwide.
I am planning to make this thread an educational as I will be posting news and reports about the medical use of the Cannabis plant as a herb.
I am open to all your comments and questions regarding this and I will try my best to keep thread alive and make a public awareness about Ganja. Furthermore I am pretty much aware of the fact that there are so much lies associated with it that it’s treated with extreme paranoia by lots of people and a stoner is usually no different to a heroine addict among the Sri Lankan Society.
I am open to all your comments and questions regarding this and I will try my best to keep thread alive and make a public awareness about Ganja. Furthermore I am pretty much aware of the fact that there are so much lies associated with it that it’s treated with extreme paranoia by lots of people and a stoner is usually no different to a heroine addict among the Sri Lankan Society.
So Lets start the revolution!!!!...........
1st Chapter - History of Marijuna; How it really became Illegal
Under the name cannabis, 19th century medical practitioners sold the drug, popularizing the word amongst English-speakers. It was rumored that Queen Victoria's menstrual pains were treated with cannabis; her personal physician, Sir John Russell Reynolds, wrote an article in the first edition of the medical journal The Lancet about the benefits of cannabis. In 1894, the Report of the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission commissioned by the UK Secretary of State and the government of India, was instrumental in the decision not to criminalize the drug in those countries From 1906 different states in the United States started to implement regulations for sales of Cannabis Sativa. In 1925 a change of the International Opium Convention banned exportation of Indian hemp to countries that have prohibited its use. Importing countries were required to issue certificates approving the importation and stating that the shipment was to be used "exclusively for medical or scientific purposes".
In 1937 the F.D. Roosevelt administration crafted the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, the first US national law making cannabis possession illegal via an unpayable tax on the drug.
The name marijuana is associated almost exclusively with the plant's psychoactive use. The term is now well known in English largely due to the efforts of American drug prohibitionists during the 1920s and 1930s most notably Harry J. Anslinger, the first Commissioner of the Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The prohibitionists deliberately used a Mexican name for cannabis in order to turn the US populace against the idea that it should be legal by playing to negative attitudes towards that nationality. Those who demonized the drug by calling it marihuana omitted the fact that the "deadly marihuana" was identical to Cannabis sativa, which had at the time a reputation for pharmaceutical safety. However, due to variations in the potency of the preparations, Cannabis indica in the 1930s had lost most of its former popularity as a medical drug.
In 1937 the F.D. Roosevelt administration crafted the 1937 Marihuana Tax Act, the first US national law making cannabis possession illegal via an unpayable tax on the drug.
The name marijuana is associated almost exclusively with the plant's psychoactive use. The term is now well known in English largely due to the efforts of American drug prohibitionists during the 1920s and 1930s most notably Harry J. Anslinger, the first Commissioner of the Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics. The prohibitionists deliberately used a Mexican name for cannabis in order to turn the US populace against the idea that it should be legal by playing to negative attitudes towards that nationality. Those who demonized the drug by calling it marihuana omitted the fact that the "deadly marihuana" was identical to Cannabis sativa, which had at the time a reputation for pharmaceutical safety. However, due to variations in the potency of the preparations, Cannabis indica in the 1930s had lost most of its former popularity as a medical drug.
Actually that was pretty much the story we could see from the surface but actually there weas a hidden agenda behind all these regulations. In the 1930s, innovations in farm machinery would have caused an industrial revolution when applied to hemp. This single resource could have created millions of new jobs generating thousands of quality products. Hemp, if not made illegal, would have brought America out of the Great Depression.
William Randolph Hearst and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Randolph Hearst, a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit, stood to lose billions because of hemp. Meantime DuPont's (which was another company hit by the Hemp trade) prime investor Andrew W. Mellon who was then Secretary of the US Treasury appointed Harry J. Anslinger who was also married to Mellon's niece as the Commissioner of the Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Soon after Anslinger started his war against Marijuna allied with William Randolph Hearst finally implementing Marijuna Tax Act in 1937 making marjuna illegal in United States which was finally spreaded through out the world.
William Randolph Hearst and the Hearst Paper Manufacturing Division of Kimberly Clark owned vast acreage of timberlands. The Hearst Company supplied most paper products. Randolph Hearst, a destroyer of nature for his own personal profit, stood to lose billions because of hemp. Meantime DuPont's (which was another company hit by the Hemp trade) prime investor Andrew W. Mellon who was then Secretary of the US Treasury appointed Harry J. Anslinger who was also married to Mellon's niece as the Commissioner of the Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics. Soon after Anslinger started his war against Marijuna allied with William Randolph Hearst finally implementing Marijuna Tax Act in 1937 making marjuna illegal in United States which was finally spreaded through out the world.
Before I start the 2nd Chapter you guys can have a listen to this song "I love Marijuna " by Linval Thompson 
