This is the first 4/20 in history in which a majority of Americans now support decriminalizing marijuana, and two states – Colorado and California – are poised to pass referendums in November to legalize, tax, and regulate the manufacturing and sale of marijuana. The tail wind for drug reform in America is remarkable.
Now only if we can get President Obama to live up to his campaign promises and stop using federal agents to raid legal marijuana dispensaries around the nation. Nixon’s war on drugs has failed – so let’s hope this time next year – our nation will treat marijuana the way it should be treated – as a medicine and pretty decent recreational drug too.
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Happy 420 Everyone!
4/20: Worldwide Cannabis Celebration on April 20, 2012
American High Society
Comix and Cannabis
Celebrity Stoners
Thomas Jefferson enjoyed the solitude of a hermit at his year-round retreat near Lynchburg, Virginia. At the heart of this 4800-acre plantation in beautiful Bedford County, Jefferson built his final, personal architectural masterpiece -- an octagonal house surrounded by an elaborate villa landscape. The rescue of this National Historic Landmark began in 1984, and today you can watch the state-of-the-art restoration under way. Come discover the private, contemplative side of Thomas Jefferson.
People like Thomas Jefferson, George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were avid readers of the great philosophers of the European Enlightenment. They treasured the ideas found in the works of such thinkers as Descartes, Voltaire, Bacon and Locke.
One of the cornerstone ideas of the Enlightenment was to give every idea and assumption the test of reason. When they applied reason to religion they found it necessary to strip it of revelation and they ended up with Deism. Deism is belief in God based on reason and nature. The differing alleged revelations of the various revealed religions are conspicuously absent from Deism. It is a natural religion as opposed to a revealed religion such as Christianity, Judaism, or Islam.
Mr. Jefferson had decidedly one of the evenest and most cheerful tempers I ever knew. He enjoyed a jest, provided it were to give pain to no one, and we were always glad to have any pleasant little anecdote for him-when he would laugh as cheerily as we could do ourselves, and enter into the spirit of the thing with as much gaiety.
A French nobleman observed that he had placed his house and his mind "on an elevated situation, from which he might contemplate the universe."
Galen wrote in the second century that it was customary to promote hilarity and happiness at banquets by giving the guests hemp (Reininger, 1967: 14-15).
May 12-13 1765: "Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp."
August 7, 1765: "--began to seperate (sic) the Male from the Female Hemp at Do--rather too late." ~ George Washington
American High Society, a subchapter from "Hemp: Lifeline To The Future," by Chris Conrad. Dr. Burke, president of the American Historical Reference Society and a consultant for the Smithsonian Institute, counted seven early presidents as cannabis smokers: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor and Franklin Pierce. Madison once remarked that hemp gave him insight to create a new and democratic nation. Cannabis was twice as popular among American soldiers in the Mexican War as in Vietnam: Pierce wrote to his family that it was "about the only good thing" about that war.
The Hashish Club was the name given to a the group of French writers and artists who first banded together in the years just before the Second Republic to experiment with, and record their experiences, of hashish.
This bud's for you!
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Happy! Happy!.....4-20
May every day be a 4-20 kind of day, in the near future.
Marijuana is a gateway drug.
Peanut butter is the addicting stuff.
Peanut butter is the addicting stuff... and 100% more deadly than doobies.
"Cannabis is remarkably safe. Although not harmless, it is surely less toxic than most of the conventional medicines it could replace if it were legally available. Despite its use by millions of people over thousands of years, cannabis has never caused an overdose death."
Testimony of Professor Lester Grinspoon, M.D.
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, before the Crime Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., October 1, 1997:
Annual Deaths From Marijuana? A Big, Fat, Zero
Annual deaths related to firearms in the United States: 29,000. Annual deaths related to prescription drugs: 32,000. Annual deaths related to alcohol: 85,000. Related to tobacco (products): 435,000. Marijuana? 0. Not a single case of death ever recorded in the United States, or even the world has been attributed to the use of marijuana.
Peanut Rehabilitation Services offers Alternatives...
Natalie's Hemp Seed Nut-Less Butter - 8oz Jar
Made fresh in Lancaster County Pennsylvania, Natalie’s Hemp Seed Nut Butter blends 100% whole lightly toasted hemp seed and hemp seed oil into a nutty tasting spread. Its is wheat, dairy, and gluten free. Combine with Natalie’s Raspberry & Hemp Jam on some whole grain bread. Enhance your favorite recipes, such as Peanut Butter Cookies, with Natalie’s Hemp Seed Nut-Less Butter. This natural crunch spread has a sunflower like taste and provides protein, essential fatty acids (Omega 3), vitamins & minerals.
Natalie's Raspberry & Hemp Jam - 8oz
Peanut allergy is a type of food allergy distinct from nut allergies. It is a type 1 hypersensitivity reaction to dietary substances from peanuts causing an overreaction of the immune system which in a small percentage of people may lead to severe physical symptoms.
The most severe allergies in general can result in anaphylaxis,[3] an emergency situation requiring immediate attention and treatment with epinephrine.
It is usually treated with an exclusion diet and vigilant avoidance of foods that may contain whole peanuts or peanut particles and/or oils.
Currently there is no confirmed treatment to prevent or cure allergic reactions to peanuts
Death rates each year Source(s)
Tobacco (products) : 435,000
Alcohol : 85,000
Prescription Drugs : 32,000
Suicide: 30,622
Sexual Fetishes : 20,000
All illegal drug use (excluding marijuana) : 17,000
Aspirin : 7,600
Marijuana : 0
Cannabis's LD50 for humans indicates that about 1500 pounds (680 kilograms) of Cannabis would have to be smoked within 15 minutes.
has anyone ever overdosed on marijuana???
June 1st, 2010 by Jamielyn Roy
No. There has never been a documented case of marijuana overdose.
In order for a human to consume enough marijuana to be fatal, they would have to consume nearly 40,000 times the amount of THC required to intoxicate them. In contrast, it only requires about 5 to 10 times the amount of alcohol required to intoxicate, to be fatal. For example, if it requires 3 beers to intoxicate you, it only requires 15 to 30 beers to kill you. However, if it takes you 3 'hits' of marijuana to intoxicate you, it would require 120,000 hits to kill you. Thus, it is virtually impossible to die of a marijuana overdose.
Cannabis less harmful than aspirin
I recently began using Hemp Milk in my coffee, after hearing Thom mention it one day. It's not bad. Might have to try out some of that Hemp Seed "Nut-Less" Butter.
It has Organic PB consistency, maybe an acquired taste for a PBJ sandwich. Baked goods using the hempnut butter for a Ganja extract. Where else are such innovative entrepreneurs pioneering an almost "manna". Instant jobs grown like weeds, literally and these reefer mad doomsday prognosticators continue to hog the airwaves and alphabet channels spreading their filthy lies. Pitifools! That's in Pa Dutch country but they have to use Canadian seeds. Same seeds they never stopped selling to pet shops for song birds. Now Audubon is concerned with ditchweed eradications driving the birds off and deminishing flocks. All so some wimpy little drug worrier DEAth mongering liar can raise their numbers to show fear mongering GOPerverts the trillion spent is well worth it. 98% of the eradications are saveding the chillrun from burlap and canvas.
Cannabis Eradications 99.28% Ditchweed Schwagg!
Spraying Ditchweed Could Devastate Game Bird Populations
Legalize It! Audubon Mag.
Starving Babies and Illegal Food
Humanity’s Best Single Food Source
Of the 3 million plus edible plants that grow on earth, no other single plant source can compare with the nutritional value of hempseeds. Both the complete protein and the essential oil contained in hempseeds are in ideal ratios for human nutrition.
Only soybeans contain a higher percentage of protein. However, the composition of the protein in hempseed is unique in the vegetable kingdom. Sixty-five percent of the protein content in hempseed is in the form of globulin edestin.1 (The word edestin comes from the Greek “edestos,” meaning edible.)
Spectre of World Wide Famine
By itself, widespread use of hempseed food protein could save many of the world’s children now dying of protein starvation! An estimated 60% of all children born in Third World countries (about 12-20 million a year) will die this way before reaching five years of age. Many times that number have their lives dramatically shortened and/or their brains decimated.* World Hunger Project, Save the Children, EST, Forum. continued...herer/08.2
Fundamental Link in the Food Chain
Our politicians who made these marijuana prohibition laws based on years of disinformation (deliberate misinformation), may have doomed not only birds but also the human race to extinction from another direction.
Many animals eat birds and their eggs. Birds in the wild are essential to the food chain; and they continue to diminish in population due to, among other things, such as petrochemical pesticides, herbicides, and the lack of hempseed! With hempseed in their diet, birds will live 10-20% longer, have more offspring, and their feathers will have more luster and oil, allowing longer flight. continued...
From the 1800's World's Fair Maple Sugar Hashish Candy
To today's Ganja candybars in frickin vending machines,
Granny Purps is a local Ganjashop, out feeding the Religionists
I wrote a review of a Joe Rocket Hemp Motorcycle Jacket for Motorcyclist Magazine. I love mine and am pissed that the American people don't force our corporate government to make hemp and marijuana legal. Talk about getting ruled!
4/20 2013: Worldwide Marijuana Rally List
National Campaign To Promote Canadian 4/20 Marijuana Rallies
Is there a 4/20 rally in your city? Want to start one? Marijuana activist millionaire Bob Erb is behind a new national campaign to promote and provide resources for 4/20
I love going into the subshop "Cheba Hut" in Tempe a few days before 4/20. They are a marijuana themed subshop, with toasted subs. The Tempe store is the original, they started franchising 12 years ago, have 2 others around Phoenix, a couple up in Colorado, a handful in California, etc.
I, a white 40's ish looking White square guy, act ignorant of what 4/20 stands for and make the front counter girl/ boy explain it to me. The owner, who I have known for 20 years stands 15' away waiting to burst into laughter.
Happy 420!
I like Tempe, I like the idea of the "Cheba Hut" too.
4/20 and Halloween are pretty much everyday in Santa Cruz...
My telephone number starts with 420.****
Cheech and Chong Celebrate 4/20 With Q&A Series
WAMM at Earth Day Santa Cruz on 4-20!
Stop by our booth at Earth Day Santa Cruz, in San Lorenzo Park, this Saturday on 4-20.
“Earthday Santa Cruz 2013 is an exciting community event offering educational information, activities for kids including an arts and crafts tent, live music and a focus on green businesses. Come and enjoy this fun environmental celebration for the whole family!
The City of Santa Cruz, the County of Santa Cruz, Ecology Action, Save Our Shores, the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz, local non-profits, and concerned citizens are working together to make Earth Day 2013 the premier environmental event for the greater Santa Cruz community.”
Wo/Men's Alliance for Medical Marijuana
Who is going to Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) 2013
Saturday, April 20, 2013
AN EVENING OF PINK FLOYD
with HOUSE OF FLOYD
Show time: 8:00 pm , Doors 7:15 pm
Tickets: $24/ Advance $30/Door
Crepe Place, Santa Cruz, CA
Saturday, April 20, 2013
420 (cannabis culture) wikipedia
420, 4:20, or 4/20 (pronounced four-twenty) is a code-term used primarily in North America that refers to the consumption of cannabis and, by extension, a way to identify oneself with cannabis subculture. Observances based on the number 420 include smoking cannabis around the time 4:20 p.m. as well as on the date April 20
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4/20 2013: Smoke Out The Globe Pics/vids
80k people expected at Denver 420 rally youtube
Organizers for Denver's 420 rally are expecting the biggest turnout ever for what they're calling the largest pot-themed celebration in the world.
4/20: Smoke Out The Globe
Chris Goodwin, Cannabis Culture
Four-Twenty, or 4/20, or April 20th, is the world-recognized international day of celebration for the planet...
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Four-Twenty, the international day of celebration for the cannabis culture held annually on April 20,
MassCann/NORML Cannabis Gathering 4/20/2013
Spread the word. We are going to gather peacefully on the Common and try to take back our City from the fear gripping it, at least for a moment. We will pay respects to the lost and injured during this tragic week by celebrating and enjoying the freedoms we have here in this great Country and this great City. Boston stand with us on this day as we usher in 4:20pm on this day the 20th of April 2013.
BOSTON STRONG
MassCann/NORML
Celebrating the passage of Medical Marijuana in Massachusetts and officially kicking off the campaign for FULL LEGALIZATION in 2016, this year people we are stepping it up for the 24th annual and first ever 2-day Boston Freedom Rally on September 14th and 15th 2013 on the Boston Common. To help us educate and rock the expected 50,000 plus crowds, MassCann with the help of Unregular Radio are kicking off the 2013 Battle for the Rally. This year over 25 bands will be competing for 3 spots on the Rally's 2 Sta...ges, with 3 bands winning the chance to play at the second largest PRO-Marijuana concert in the Country.
Ok everyone the gathering is still on. We want to just remind everyone Cops will be out in serious full effect so remember your proper weed etiquette. Less than an OUNCE! Keep it in one bag, per person! We recommend not bringing backpacks or big purses of any kind. If the Cops feel they must, expect to be searched. Don't mouth of or give anyone a reason to think we are anything but weed loving, proper American citizens that have come to gather in the oldest public park in the United States to remember why we love this City so much!
Have a drum or an instrument? We encourage you to bring it, help us spread the message and vibes of peace, reform and love.
Ways to Follow 4/20 Culture Online
420 Worldwide Cannabis Rally
OpCannabis 2013 - Tulsa, Oklahoma
4/20 Vancouver: Huge Marijuana Protest
and Farmers Market Hits Art Gallery on April 20
Record-high numbers of marijuana smokers and vendors are expected to fill Vancouver’s downtown Art Gallery grounds on April 20 for what is likely to be the city’s largest 4/20 rally yet, part of a worldwide celebration of cannabis culture and action against destructive drug laws.
Vancouver 4/20 2013
LIVE on Pot TV Apr 20 2013
Watch Vancouver's 4/20 marijuana celebration LIVE on Pot TV – with music, contests, special performances and speeches by Vancouver cannabis activists – starting TODAY (April 20) at NOON.
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4/20 2013: Worldwide Marijuana Rally List
Find Your 4/20 Rally hightimes
The Jodie Emery Show: 4/20 is Here!
POT TV - Watch new episodes of The Jodie Emery Show each week for the latest news on Marc Emery, CCHQ, and Canada's cannabis community. In this episode: It's almost April 20th - 4/20!
Shots fired, Denver 420 rally