cannabisnews.com: Grass Grass Posted by FoM on September 11, 1999 at 07:41:51 PT By Peter Goddard Source: Toronto Star WE'VE COME a long way, baby - just not all the way. When it comes to marijuana, I mean. It's now socially, if not legally, acceptable to admit that maybe once you actually smoked the stuff . . . although maybe it's hard to remember when . . . and it was entirely accidental, at that. Inhaling's still out of the question. But this is okay, dope-wise. Not-inhaling got Bill Clinton elected. Not-inhaling ups marijuana's status. It means that while it's still bad, it's only as bad as Toronto's air. See how more understanding we've come to be with The Weed Formerly Known As Evil? By weed I also mean pot, grass, tea, jive, the herb, cannabis sativa, doobie-doo, la corde-de-pendu (as the French once called hemp) or the stuff my neighbour Danny is growing just behind his composter. (Sorry, Danny, pal, but I did tell you to bring my lawnmower back.) The weed has gone baby boomer-ville, claimed and cleaned up by New Agers, wholesome naturalists and even some leftie politicians. It's probably only this far from being legalized, for medical use only, which its supporters and opponents agree will eventually turn all of Canada into something like downtown Amsterdam. Viewed in this context, Ron Mann's instincts are absolutely right-on to remind us of marijuana's rebel past in Grass, his new documentary that has its world-premiere screenings Wednesday and Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival. Grass is another of Mann's run-for-daylight, finish-in-the-last-minute documentaries - like Twist, the Toronto film festival entry that made him a star back in 1991. Even at that, Grass arrives at the festival about two years later than the Toronto filmmaker had intended, due to budget cutbacks and government grants that never came through. ``Those who have remained pure will see the degradation you've been missing,'' goes the film's publicity pitch. ``Those who have succumbed to temptation will learn how a nice person like you became a dangerous criminal.'' Grass uses grainy 1930s and '40s government agency-crafted anti-dope warning films - Mann collected some 400 hours of them - but the documentary also focuses on pot's ``up'' period and its peppy, breakthrough days in the 1960s, when Richard Nixon tried to cut the grass, thus giving the freaks something to live for. We're talking good/bad old days. In one delicious scene from a 1966 clip used in a far-from-finished video print of Grass I watched this week, an anonymous male ``subject'' undergoing some serious medical marijuana-testing is asked how he feels.``Fannnnntastic,'' he says. The starched nurse notes it on her clipboard. Hmm, fantastic. Given a list of further questions to read, he ticks off his reactions to the mystery stuff he's been smoking. No, he doesn't feel defiant. No, he doesn't feel business-like. Friendly? he reads. ``Extremely,'' he smiles as happily as anyone has ever smiled. Mann - who is still editing Grass - isn't entirely sure marijuana is being welcomed with much more official tolerance these days. He quotes U.S. statistics in pointing out that ``over $18 billion dollars have been spent in the past year putting non-violent offenders in prison. ``In 1998, 600,000 people were imprisoned in America for marijuana use.'' Mann, 41, is straddling the fence a bit with Grass - mostly for economic reasons. He doesn't want to make the film seem too cheekily irreverent or too pro-pot, lest it be banned from playing south of the border. That has happened before, he points out. In 1949, the National Film Board's Drug Addict was kept out of the U.S. Director Terri Nash's If You Love This Planet, a 1982 NFB product about a potential nuclear holocaust, was suppressed in the States, although it went on to win a 1983 Academy Award. Says Mann: ``I'm trying to distance myself, but I definitely feel there's a movement now to broaden the discussion about marijuana. Mann saturated his documentary with movie images from both sides of `the issue' ``It started in the '90s with rap music. And then there's the issue behind the medical use of pot in Canada, as well as in the United States, and the environmental issue involved in the growing of hemp. ``But my film is not about rope or the medical use of marijuana. It's about getting high, about the recreational use of marijuana. ``I started thinking about the film years ago, when I started thinking about how, in the 1990s, people were taking marijuana for granted. It was something that we'd dealt with.'' But then came ``this new outbreak of temperance - right-wing Christian types trying to impose their ways on everyone else.'' Maybe in the near future, pot-smoking will seem to have had all the innocence of shopping at the Gap or watching Ally McBeal. But Grass doesn't play up the innocence angle, just as it doesn't buy into the many lurid attempts from one level of law enforcement after another to connect pot use to heroin and other ``more serious'' drugs. (The weirdest twist on this phenomenon came recently from Trainspotting's author, Irvine Welsh, who said: ``I drifted into heroin because as a kid growing up everybody told me, `Don't smoke marijuana, it will kill you.' '') Grass concentrates on pot's effects, its ability to make everything and everyone near it get a little loopy. And it's not only that 1960s, Day-Glo kind of loopy seen in Grass's scenes of hippies playing like painted puppies in a 1967 San Francisco Be-In. There's also the are-you-for-real kind of loopy you feel watching Grass's craftily edited clips from anti-marijuana propaganda pics made in the 1930s and '40s. Mann has the mind of a film historian, with part of his business coming from film archival work, and Grass is saturated with images from movies on both sides of ``the issue.'' In this regard, Mann can be described as being mild-mannered-with-attitude - the attitude being honed through his love of such documentary-activists as Les Blank (In Heaven There Is No Beer) and Emile de Antonio (In The Year Of The Pig). In a sense, Grass plays off the buzz created by the 1970 re-release of Reefer Madness, the achingly awful 1936 anti-pot flick that called marijuana ``the real Public Enemy No. One.'' With its shadowy, reefer-puffing debauchery, the film pushed all the right paranoia buttons for a conservative 1930s American audience already terrified of communism and other enemies-from-within. What could be more ``within'' than inhaled smoke? The re-release of Reefer Madness pushed very different buttons for its new audiences, who made it a cult classic. ``You'd have to scrape the resin off the screen after a weekend,'' said one distributor. The pot-savvy new generation of viewers sat transfixed as Reefer Madness described, in utter seriousness, marijuana's effects, starting with ``sudden, violent, uncontrollable laughter; then come dangerous hallucinations, space expands, time slows down - almost stands still.'' David Lynch's Eraserhead, Chris Carpenter's The X-Files and the New Gothic start right here. And so does Grass. ``America's drug policy had propaganda using exaggeration and silence,'' says Mann, underlining the aesthetic twin peaks of much modern filmmaking. ``Drug laws have just become a tool for repressing undesirables. Drug prohibition itself is a costly failure. It has caused more problems than it has solved. ``I don't see Grass as an advocacy film, but it definitely crosses the line. It is, after all, narrated by an activist.'' He means Woody Harrelson, a.k.a. ``Mr. Hemp'' - a reference to the actor's affection for pot's slightly more respectable step-sister. Harrelson has been busted for planting four symbolic hemp seeds to protest Kentucky law. For one Academy Awards ceremony, he cheerily wore a hemp tux designed by Giorgio Armani, whose prices are generally all that's high about his clothes line. Actually, signing Harrelson was a bit of a saga on its own. Mann's original choice for the job was tough-guy Robert Mitchum, who once spent 59 days in a Los Angeles slammer after a 1948 pot bust. But Mitchum's death in 1997 forced the filmmaker to look for another narrator with appropriate credentials. Recalls Mann: ``At one point we thought of Bob Denver,'' who was busted last year for pot possession. ``He was Gilligan on Gilligan's Island. We could have had `Free Gilligan' buttons. But everyone we talked to brought us back to Woody Harrelson.'' So Mann sent him a tape of what he'd put together for Grass. ``He said it was `awesome.' '' Awesome. September 11, 1999 Ron Mann's new film takes a crafty look at the highs and lows of marijuana's loopy history Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #41 posted by Trinket121 on June 12, 2002 at 14:34:56 PT: how to... hey there peeps i have been working on a site for making your own smoking utilities i was wondering if yall could help me out and give me some ideas like what you use... some one the other day told me that a coke can caved in and with holes poked in the top as the bowl and the opening as the stem kinda like a pipe i dont think thats very safe what do you think well plz write back... [ Post Comment ] Comment #39 posted by beaswax1981 on December 26, 2001 at 19:21:39 PT: Kansas City weed My brother is currently in the hospital and he said that he smoked Kansas City Weed. I am unaware of the terminology, but is that the stuff that is laced with acid or embalming fluid? If you know the answer please email me. [ Post Comment ] Comment #38 posted by jtizzle on July 28, 2001 at 18:20:59 PT get high smoke bud its f**king the shit [ Post Comment ] Comment #37 posted by mindy ruess on July 23, 2001 at 22:56:13 PT: give me a break! #1 marijuana is not a chemical THC is the chemical. also. weed is grown not created from a composition of powders and pills. it is a natural high without hangovers or queeziness the next morning. its not physically addictive, such as cigarettes,alcohol,heroin,xanax,prozac,and so on...i personally would rather smoke God grown marijuana than take a man made chemical to deal with the everyday stresses of everyday life. so thats why i say give me a freakin break!!!! thank you, mindy ruess WA, usa [ Post Comment ] Comment #36 posted by MajorNW on June 11, 2001 at 13:44:53 PT cool I live on Anglesey, Wales, UK.....there not much to do here so i smoke hashish.....moroccan style..!! :-> [ Post Comment ] Comment #35 posted by MajorNW on June 11, 2001 at 13:41:38 PT eazi dont eat an oz of hash. smokit man!! fuck sakes.... [ Post Comment ] Comment #34 posted by 2puffstuff on April 26, 2001 at 09:40:25 PT: good god givin ganja !! the only way to fly ! ok i like to start by saying to all you anti pot people in the words of a very wise man " have you ever been experienced ............. well i have " do you believe in god ? in the bible it says that which grow by god is to be consumed by man . 4:20 so if you believe in not smokin weed then you think ciggerettes are bad and drinkin . how bout food you have a problem with eatin too. all you losers need to realize pot has been around for ever and its here to stay so get over it and for my fellow tokers in the words of phil anselmno " " smoke a fatty a joint a day keeps reality away. [ Post Comment ] Comment #33 posted by Concerned on April 11, 2001 at 17:17:21 PT You don't know what you are doing I would just like to say that smoking any kind of dangerous chemical is not only bad for yourself, but also the people around you. I reacently just lost two very close friends because they decided they would patake in this past time. It's wrong. It's illegal. It hurts people. Stop. If not for yourself, then for those who care about you. [ Post Comment ] Comment #32 posted by Precious on March 29, 2001 at 13:46:19 PT weed Match a blunt! [ Post Comment ] Comment #31 posted by sea on March 13, 2001 at 06:47:50 PT: hydroponics is it legal to grow marijuana hydroponicly [ Post Comment ] Comment #30 posted by Scottish6pac on February 23, 2001 at 07:42:57 PT: Keep on goin'! i was wondering what the American version of buckets is called.....? can n a 1 tell me.....u should get a chat room on this website man! DRINK AND DRUGS RULE! [ Post Comment ] Comment #29 posted by Ewan on February 23, 2001 at 07:40:44 PT: ALL U NON-TOKERS AND PPL THAT R AGAINST DRINK! FUCK U ALL! U CAN ALL JUST LEAVE US ALONE (TOCKERS AND DRINKERS) IF U DONT LIKE IT U CAN FUCK OFF U BUNCH OF POOFS! DRINK AND DRUGS RULE SO KEEP OUT OF IT! PUNKS [ Post Comment ] Comment #28 posted by Ewan on February 23, 2001 at 07:37:50 PT: Kool man.. me and my mates r quite regular tockers man....we r in scotland like....so we r wanting to know if u could tell us if we scots could ever get some kronic over hear, we cant seem to find n a to try....e-mail me back man and give us some advise....drink and drugs rule! [ Post Comment ] Comment #27 posted by Ewan on February 23, 2001 at 07:33:07 PT: Dunno....cos it rocks...not as much as bevy tho' hey man...keep the news comming, e-mail me and tell me where i can get hold of some cronic, cos me and my mates wanna try the shit...we r in scotland u see....just thought u might know. keep the good website up man. E-mail me back. [ Post Comment ] Comment #26 posted by haywood on February 16, 2001 at 21:17:36 PT: get rid of marijuana fuck you asshole. [ Post Comment ] Comment #25 posted by ERIC on February 03, 2001 at 20:57:49 PT: DUMBASS WHAT WERE YOU THINKING AT THAT MOMENT SAYING PUT AN OUNCE OF BUD IN YOUR YOUGURT! YOU R A DUMB-ASS-RETARD!I FEEL SORRY FOR YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT. NEXT TIME TRY TO PUT SOME EFFORT AT YOUR WAY OF THINKING [ Post Comment ] Comment #24 posted by Mexican on February 03, 2001 at 20:49:03 PT: My personal opinion PEOPLE SHOULD USE DRUGS AT THERE OWN RISK" [ Post Comment ] Comment #23 posted by Say What on January 24, 2001 at 02:57:42 PT What are you trying to say After having read your letter I think that maybe you should trying having a smoke yourself. At Leest it mite improov youre spellin imensly and help yu two stop mayking al fose missteaks, then it might make your statements understandable. But until then you seem to be less informed by your own abilities than by proper information [ Post Comment ] Comment #22 posted by Glen on January 22, 2001 at 18:50:30 PT GET HIGH!!! Mary Jane is great. Everyone should get high and chill. If there was pot bars instead of alcohol there would be a lot less crime and people would be nicer to each other.SMOKE A FAT ONE!! [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by scared on January 14, 2001 at 09:56:18 PT god given plant This Natural plant that has been here since adam & eve,it's no harm to are culture.I honestly think that smoking one a day will not harm a human like alchohol but who can fight wiht the law. The only reason in my opinion why marijuana can't be legal is tax,tax,tax, that is what it comes down to so unitl then i will wait patiently for it to be legal,sad but true im not one whom could stand being in jail for a moment of peace,relaxation,even that has broken the fredom of wright are first amandment. [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by frankie on January 11, 2001 at 04:55:37 PT: tunnel visioned Interesting comments made by some people ,however inaccuratedont do drug's someone commented. It may be true that cannabis is a drug, but lets put things into perspective here, so is alcohol, which causes more damage to your body than cannabis,it causes more social unrest than cannabis, every weekend in every town and every city fights break out windows are smashed and people are hurt because of alcohol.hey dont get me wrong i like a pint, the same as everyone else, but just because I have one dosen't mean i'll become an alcoholic, the same applies to pot just because i have a toke it dose not mean I'll become a junk'y. STOP TREATING IT LIKE OTHER BAD DRUGS because this is not a bad drug,Medically this has been proven I could go on for ages and explain( Im a medical student studying the affects of cannabis sativa)however you cannot explain facts to these tunnel visioned twats. TA. Frankie [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by dddd on January 03, 2001 at 16:02:26 PT previous 2 comments Most peculiar,,,,,most peculiar indeed.I assume neither of you has ever taken aspirin?Or drank coffee?..Or had beer or wine?No novacaine at the dentist?....No anasthesia for surgery?...No Nyquil????? [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by HI YALL on January 03, 2001 at 15:04:54 PT ummmm Fu*k drugs LALALALALADrugs ruin peoples lives man fu*k them alllllpeaceyour friend [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by NODRUGS on January 03, 2001 at 15:01:52 PT DONT DO DRUGS HIIIIIIIIII i think drugs are bad bad badyou have to be one DUMB person to do them because...........THEY CAN KILLLLLLLLL YOUDo you understand????I hope so CAUSE IF YOU DONT AND YOU LIKE do DRUGS then you might get cancer and die and make every one who knew and loved youSAD and depressee and then there life will be ruind and they might KILL themself if the depression goes to the extreem and then there familey will be ruind (Especialy if it is a Daddy who killed him self) and the whole fu8king familey will be ruind (SOORY ABOUT THE "PROFANE LANGUAGE")And it will all because YOU did DrugsDRUGS ARE BAD FOR YOUPLEASE DONT DO THEMLOVE YOU ALL LOTS&LOTS&LOTS OF BUNCHES OF OATS~NODRUGS~ [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by dddd on January 02, 2001 at 21:31:30 PT far out You are a strange person Gortan,but if you ate an ounce of hash,and lived through it,,,then I guess that proves that cannabis,even when used in excessive dosages,,is relativly harmless. An oz. of hash would last me a year or so.It's a waste to use such a massive amount on one big buzz.Remember,if you get too high,,,you die. [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by gortan on January 02, 2001 at 18:23:03 PT ultimate trip. eat an ounce of hash in a yogurt.youll be out of it for days man(make sure you have someone there to force-water you every 12 hours or so).youll never get a trip like it. [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by dddd on December 25, 2000 at 11:50:46 PT spelling You have a valid point there Steve,and I hope you will continue to join in with your opinions,and comments. Please dont be offended by me submitting these contrary views.*)I would hope that anyone who wants to express their opinion here,would do so regardless of their spelling skills.*)I think that any "anti",who would try to say we are illiterate,bad spellers because of drug use,,have proven themselves to be far more ignorant than the worst of the spelling challenged.If someone is shallow enough to judge a person,or a group,by their spelling,,then I doubt there opinion would be altered by perfect spelling.They are just looking for any venue to criticize people they dislike.Mark Twain once observed that people who spell words the same way all the time are like people who wear the same clothes every day.I have no respect for a man who doesn't know more than one way to spell a word - Walt Whitman.......................dddd [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by Steve on December 25, 2000 at 10:56:37 PT: Katie and friends Hey guys, do everyone a favor and check your spelling before leaving a comment. Sites like this are checked by the "antis" as well as the rest of us. This makes us all look like dumd a*#ed stoners, not the products of a under funded public education system! [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by Katie jackass on December 23, 2000 at 01:56:18 PT: Me! I personally love bud! and i dont think the law should be able to talke what i love away from me. i doent affect my everyday life im just the same as i was before. peace out [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by Nathan on December 21, 2000 at 10:38:48 PT: 4:20 go to www.420times.com/420school/420/index.shtmlit has the history of 420 [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by Joe Blecha on December 05, 2000 at 13:06:41 PT: my addiction i live in rural munden kansas, there is not much to do so i smoke weed [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by John on October 30, 2000 at 06:19:18 PT: question I have tried to grow some marijuana, but it was diseased with spider mite. I have used an insecticide which contains BIFINTHRIN. Can I still smoke this after using the insecticide ?thanks [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by yodel on August 22, 2000 at 01:12:45 PT: Live chat Hello, I was wondering if u would be interested in linking a chat room #420 to the chat server irc.chatuniverse.net port 6667 or www.chatuniverse.net .. Just a place for people to kick back and chat.I can play some auto ad's on updates and stuff for ur homepage. And a link on ur page could make more people to come back to ur site, just to chat with us.. chat server [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by Dean on August 11, 2000 at 16:16:28 PT: Century of Lies Patriots Needed to Help Free Marijuana!Century of Lies – A Screenplay by F.D. Becker© 2000, fdb ev1.netCENTURY of LIES: Deceit and ignorance lead U.S. to outlaw marijuana. Politicians, lawyers, judges, cops, companies and criminals benefit from this scheme. The impact these laws have on religious, medicinal and casual users is brutal. Patriots rally 20 million criminals for a last ditch effort to restore truth in government.I need your help! This is the tool that will force the government’s hand. If you have an interest in returning hemp, (marijuana) to the wild (and the farm,) or in allowing nature friendly companies to flourish, please assist in this effort.“And the Earth brought forth grass and herb yielding seed and God saw that it was good.” Genesis, Chapter one.Century of Lies tells the story of the weasel congress in promulgating this pack of lies and how they have cast millions of people into prisons for their beliefs. DEA hit squads kill medicinal users by denying the use of their medicine. The DEA attacks religious users, throwing them in jail for use of this herb as a sacrament.We follow three generations of individuals through the 20th century, tracing their efforts, disappointments and their eventual triumph in bringing a bit of truth back to government.Ideally, I would like to put a copy of this script in Woody Harrelson’s hands. However, if you know a different route, a way in which we can move this idea through space and time so as to reach our intended goal, please advise.If you have an interest in helping, I will send you the first 25 pages for your review. Do you dare? I pray that you will. [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by dhunter4u on August 11, 2000 at 12:33:17 PT: Cannabis Is the a yellow flower on Cannabis? [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by roach on July 29, 2000 at 18:17:54 PT: Russia = = =Drug-info-ban repost from : alt.drugs.potRussian Parliament passes drug-info banCensorship legislation similar to that proposed in the USBy Dana LarsenEditor, Cannabis Culture Magazinehttp://www.cannabisculture.comThe July 9 edition of Russia's St Petersberg Times reported that theRussian Federation Council has passed a ban forbidding all media,including the Internet, from publishing information on the production, useand sale of illegal drugs.This legislation is very similar to the Methamphetmaine Anti-ProliferationAct due to be passed soon by the US Congress.Russia: Upper House Passes Media Ban Over DrugsSunday, July 9, 2000by Anna Badkhen, Staff WriterSt. Petersburg TimesIn an attempt to discourage drug abuse, the Federation Council this weekapproved a controversial amendment to the law on mass media forbidding allmedia, including the Internet, to disseminate information on theproduction, use and sale of illegal drugs.The amendment, unanimously approved by parliament's upper house Wednesday,states that media outlets can not spread information about methods of"producing, preparing and using" drugs or about places where drugs aresold. Information about the medical advantages of illegal drugs via massmedia is also prohibited.The wording of the new amendment is almost identical to Article 46 of thelaw on drugs, which was adopted in April 1998. The law has drawn criticismfor imposing tougher penalties for drug possession, forbidding privatedoctors from keeping illegal narcotics on their premises and banningtreatment of drug addicts in private hospitals. In a telephone interviewThursday, Sergei Polyatykin, medical programs director of the Moscow-basedNo to Alcoholism and Drug Abuse charity foundation, said he favored theamendment."Unfortunately, the print media and the Internet today are full ofpseudo-anti-drug literature that describes in detail what kinds of drugsthere are, where they are grown, what their effects are," Polyatykin said."At the very bottom, this literature mentions the dangers of drugs ... butsuch mentions don't discourage a teenager from trying a drug," he said. "Ateenager does not understand the categories of life, death, health,illness. He is fearless and immortal. He is intrigued by the descriptionof the drug and he wants to check it out."But an official at the St. Petersburg Vozvrashcheniye Foundation - thefirst group to have launched a free needle exchange in Russia - said theamendment would be a step back in the fight against the country's growingdrug problem.According to the official, who declined to give her name, the ban oninformation about drugs would jeopardize the numerous nongovernmentalanti-drug information programs that use mass media to inform people aboutthe dangers of narcotics addiction."In order to fight a problem, one needs to know exactly what the problemis," the official said. "If there is no in-depth information about drugsin the media, the nation will be ignorant and, therefore, more vulnerableto drug abuse." She said the vague terminology of the amendment mightjeopardize the needle-exchange programs, whose success largely depends onthe dissemination of information about them in the media.Andrei Richter, a media expert, said the amendment was "useless" since"the existing criminal laws are sufficient to fight drug abuse."He said he did not believe the amendment would be used to put pressure onthe media. Drug use and drug trafficking have increased dramatically sincethe collapse of the Soviet Union, when drugs became more readilyavailable. The Health Ministry said last month that drug abusers accountfor about 90 percent of the country's AIDS cases.Earlier this year, Interior Ministry officials said they confiscated morethan 60 tons of drugs in 1999, compared with 45 tons in 1998. They saidmore than 650 tons of materials used in making drugs were seized lastyear.-- Dana Larsen, Editor, CANNABIS CULTURE MAGAZINEMarijuana & Hemp Around the Worldhttp://www.cannabisculture.com -- http://pot-tv.netBox 15 - 199 West Hastings, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6B 1H4 [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by Rochelle on July 23, 2000 at 18:55:33 PT: get rid of cannabis drugs should not be part of our society...... [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by MARIKA on June 27, 2000 at 06:49:51 PT SOUTH AFRICA AS YOU ALL SHOULD KNOW , AFRICA I THINK HAS GOT SOME OF THE BEST CANNABIS , GROWING NATURALY , BY THAT I MEAN NOT GROWING HYDROPONICLY AS IN AMSTERDAM .WE HAD A GREAT YIELD THIS YEAR OF THREE OF OUR OWN PLANTS AND IF I MAY ADD ,I THINK THE GOVERNMENT WILL SOON COME TO REALIZE THAT THIS PLANT DOES MORE GOOD THAN HARM .WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF ARTICLES IN THE PAPER CONSERNING PEOPLE FOUND WITH CANNABIS , IT IS STILL ILLEGAL ,BUT ATLEAST THE RASTAFARIANS GO SCOT FREE, SO THERE IS ALWAYS SOMETHING TO GO ROUND .I SMOKE CANNABIS NOT FOR THE SAKE OF GETTING TRASHED OR ANYTHING OF THAT SORT , BUT WHEN I SMOKE I FEEL RELAXED I CAN SIT AND DO ANY ART FOR HOURS AND IT HAS CURED MY ASTMAI DO NOT THINK MOST PEOPLE REALLY UNDERSTAND THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS PLANT AND HOW MUCH IT CAN BE USED FORPEOPLE SHOULD STOP CALLING IT A DRUG BECAUSE AFTER ALL IT IS SOMETHING GIVVEN TO US IN NATURE BY THE SUPREME BEING [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by anonomous on June 19, 2000 at 10:19:30 PT 4:20 Please insert a section on the history of the time 4:20. Many people often wonder about this wonderful tradition, and convenient timing. Also, remember 420 is also April 20th as well and portray the wonderful events that occur on this date. [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by reffermaddness on June 04, 2000 at 22:21:47 PT light the joint yea man [ Post Comment ] Post Comment Name: Optional Password: E-Mail: Subject: Comment: [Please refrain from using profanity in your message] Link URL: Link Title: