Hemp products cover a huge range of uses from paper, cloth, beauty products to dog biscuits. The hemp or marijuana (marijuana and hemp are the same plant Cannabis Sativa, marijuana is the type grown for use as drug, while hemp is very low in THC and is not considered a drug.) Plant also produces 40% more oxygen than any other plant. Marijuana is the most widespread drug in the world, if only hemp could be the most widespread crop in the world.

Marijuana is a plant, with the botanical name of Cannabis Sativa. Marijuana is a weed that grows wild and is cultivated in many parts of the world. Containing 419 chemicals, this plant has the ability to intoxicate its users, primarily because of the psychoactive mind altering ingredients called De

Hardly any other drug has so many stories and legends to it. Scientist have been accused of poor research on interpreting results according to their own moral notes. It seems that in most cases the outcome will depend on whether the researcher is for or against marijuana.

In conclusion, more than 400,000 Americans are arrested each year on marijuana charges. People have been put in jail with murders and rapist just for carrying marijuana. The government doesn't realize want marijuana can be used for besides getting high. "one acre of hemp will produce as much paper as four acres of trees" (Hill 2), growing hemp all over the world would save the rain forests. The hemp seed is natures perfect food, the oil from the hemp seeds has the highest percentage of a essential fatty acids and the lowest percentage of saturated fats. Marijuana as a medicine is safer than most of the drugs sold in a pharmacy. In 1988, D.E.A.'s own a administrative law judge concluded that "marijuana is one of the safest, therapeutically active substances known to man" (Hill 3). It has never been proven that marijuana has killed anyone by cancer or any other means. "More than 400,000 Americans die from diseases related to cigarette smoking each year. More than 150,000Americans die from alcohol abuse each year. But in10,000 years of usage, there is no proof that anyone has ever died from marijuana"(Hill 6).

In Amsterdam, marijuana is legal and sold in coffee shops all over the place, a person could go in and ask for the weed menu, one page for weed another for hashish. Names like, Shunk weed, Super Shunkweed, Red hair, White snow and many others. All cannabis sold in Holland is government approved. (Must be a tough job approving marijuana).

"Hashish or Hash, is nothing more than the essence of the marijuana plant extracted and hardened into a block" (Powell 37), Hash is usually smoked in a pipe, although there are many recipes that imply it as a cooking ingredient. Some people say it has a different affect than weed but this is not true, "with the exception being that hash is a good deal stronger" (Powell 38). Hash is a lot more expensive than grass. It can be smoked either in a pipe or by mixing it with tobacco in a cigarette, traditionally, Hashish has been smoked in a hookah or water pipe (Stewertka 16). Middle eastern countries used a hookah most of the time because more than one person could smoke at the same time. It has also been used in the kitchen as far back as the early civilization around the Ganges River. Today, thousands of people travel to Amsterdam to sample or feast on all kinds of grass or hash food.

The different parts of the plant contain different amounts of THC. The bract that covers the seeds may contain 10% or more, but the leaves might contain 1 0r 2 percent, the THC content of the plant decreases in the following order: Bracts, flowers, leaves, small stems, large stems, and roots and seeds (Stwertka 47). Any particular combination of the fifty or more different cannabinoids depends on temperature, water, soil condition, and the variety of the plant itself.

Marijuana remains the most commonly used illegal drug among the three grade levels. In 1996, the proportion of students that reported using marijuana in the past year rose to 18% of 8th graders, 34% of 10th graders, and 36% of 12th graders. Use of marijuana on a daily bases has also increased and mearly one in twenty high school seniors and one in thirty tenth graders was a daily user. In 1975, 47% of high school students smoked marijuana and in 1980 it went up to 60%, and now use of the drug has decreased to 45%, but is slowly rising.

lta - 9 - Tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC. It is the THC content found at various concentration in different parts of the plant, which determines the potency.

Now these dreams are fast becoming reality. Hemp is being used as building material for houses, furniture candles, crayons, paints, food, all

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