HEMP: The Authorative Historical Digital Record

Chapter 10

What’s in a Name (2)
First Known Marijuana Users
2,300-1,000 B.C.E.
Hemp & Scythe
Thread of Civilization
Hemp to Enforce Law
Cannabis Herbal Medicine
Mystic Philosophers
Natural Mind
Cloaked in Secrecy
Judaic Line
What the Bible Says
Early Christianity
Holy Roman Empire
Church/State Aristocracy
Politics of Paper
Cannabis Medicines Banned
Legal Medieval Medicines
Contradictions
Yet Hemp Endured
Age of Enlightenment
Economic Model of Forfeiture Laws
Jefferson’s Comparison to Tobacco

Contrary to popular conception, “marijuana” is not a phenomenon rooted in the 1960s.

Cannabis hemp is part of our heritage and was the backbone of our most stable and longest surviving cultures.

Recent psycho-pharmacological studies have discovered THC has its own unique receptor sites in the brain, indicating man and marijuana have a pre-cultural relationship—indeed, human culture could very well prove to be the blossom of our symbiosis with cannabis. (See Appendix in the paper version of this book, which is summarized in the F.Y.I. tour at the end of this chapter)