Just What The Jewish Doctor Ordered?

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Marijuana: Just What The Doctor Ordered? By Joe Eskenazi
Source: Jewish News Weekly November 12, 2005 California *
Irvin Rosenfeld smokes marijuana. A lot of it. Every day. He also buys and sells stocks. A lot of them. Every day. And he’s very up-front about this with everyone, most of all his 500 clients. “I handle millions and millions of dollars on a daily basis, and all of my clients know I use marijuana. I don’t want them to see me on TV and say, ‘Hey, that’s my stockbroker!’” says the Jewish activist with a laugh.
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Once-Secret Nixon Tapes Show Why US Outlawed Pot By Kevin Zeese
Source: AlterNet*March 22, 2002
Thirty years ago the United States came to a critical juncture in the drug war. A Nixon-appointed presidential commission had recommended that marijuana use not be a criminal offense under state or federal law. But Nixon himself, based on his zealous personal preferences, overruled the commission's research and doomed marijuana to its current illegal status. This newly revealed information comes from declassified tapes of Oval Office conversations from 1971 and 1972, which show Nixon's aggressive anti-drug stance putting him directly at odds against many of his close advisors. continued...
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/12/thread12324.shtml

Transcripts of the tape, and a report based on them, are available at: http://www.csdp.org

It's those Jewish Bastards Out for Legalizing!
Richard M. Nixon

Self Perpetuating Lies



Richard Nixon missing tapes

Shafer Commission (US federal government, 1973)

Nixon, Marijuana, and the Shafer Commission
Special Release 30 Years After Nixon's Marijuana Commission Advocated Decriminalization, Report Findings Are Still Valid Nixon Never Read His Own Report, President Bush Should

1972 US Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding,
US National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse

Nixon's private comments about marijuana showed he was the epitome of misinformation and prejudice. He believed marijuana led to hard drugs, despite the evidence to the contrary. He saw marijuana as tied to "radical demonstrators." He believed that "the Jews," especially "Jewish psychiatrists" were behind advocacy for legalization, asking advisor Bob Haldeman, "What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob?" He made a bizarre distinction between marijuana and alcohol, saying people use marijuana "to get high" while "a person drinks to have fun."

Only The PotHeads Will Survive
Counter Reefer Maniac accusations that marijuana users support terrorism with the plain fact that these dizzy morons are preventing the use of the "best available protection against nerve gas attack" with their marijuana madness. Among its many properties cannabis provides considerable protection from a number of lethal nerve gas symptoms by defending the brain from injury and suppressing the the seizures, nausea and vomiting associated with chemical warfare agents. This is not a pothead myth because the Israeli Army, which has no time for Reefer Madness nonsense, equips their soldiers with cannabis compounds to protect against a chemical warfare attack.

Cannabis prevents brain damage
Science Daddies Rejoice: Marijuana Prevents Brain Damage
Development, by an Israeli/American drug company called Pharmos of a marijuana-derived nerve-preserving medication which is well on its way to market (see Feds Welcome Medical-Marijuana Research?) This new synthetic cannabinoid, dexanabinol, has been shown to reliably forestall permanent nerve damage in lab animals subjected to cerebral stroke and surgical shock, and is undergoing human trials now in Israeli hospitals.



Court Rules MMJ Initiative Should Proceed
Marijuana Policy Project March 28, 2002 Washington, D.C.*
In an historic ruling issued today, federal judge Emmet G. Sullivan overturned a federal law that prohibited District of Columbia residents from proposing, running, and voting on a ballot initiative to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. The decision resolved a First Amendment lawsuit against the federal government and the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics (BOEE) filed in December by the Marijuana Policy Project and several individual plaintiffs.

Cheryl Heart Foundation

MMJ Use Advocates Stage Protest at Barr's Office By David Pace
A P Star Tribune October 21, 1999
Supporters of medical marijuana usage blocked the door to Georgia Rep. Bob Barr' s office Thursday to protest his efforts to overturn a District of Columbia referendum that would permit seriously ill people to use marijuana legally if their doctors recommend it.

Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74

What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis (February 1998)
``Health officials in Geneva have suppressed the publication of a politically sensitive analysis that confirms what ageing hippies have known for decades: cannabis is safer than alcohol or tobacco. According to a document leaked to New Scientist, the analysis concludes not only that the amount of dope smoked worldwide does less harm to public health than drink and cigarettes, but that the same is likely to hold true even if people consumed dope on the same scale as these legal substances. The comparison was due to appear in a report on the harmful effects of cannabis published last December by the WHO. But it was ditched at the last minute following a long and intense dispute between WHO officials, the cannabis experts who drafted the report and a group of external advisers.''

Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth

They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet.
TIMOTHY LEARY

The Great Marijuana Hoax by Allen Ginsberg

Reefer Madness By Abbie Hoffman



Abbie List: Reefer Madness

Letter From Israel - Keep on the Grass By Sylvana Foa*
Village Voice *January 07, 2003 Jaffa
The country is going to pot. No one seems to mind. It makes us feel like we live in a normal 21st-century nation instead of some backward place where two peoples, neither of whom eats pork, kill each other over a piece of scrubby land.

Fringe Parties Hope to Woo Israel Voters
The Wrong Drug Front - Ha`aretz Daily
Drug Trade Thrived in Biblical Times


The Radical Rabbi by Pete Brady
Cannabis Culture Magazine 09 Jul, 2001 - 19k
Meet the world's first pro-pot, fundamentalist Christian, female Jewish rabbi.

Enthogentic Works

In Hebrew the word for hash also means incense...

Incense, cannibas, is the communion by fire spoken of in the Bible.
Fire is inspiration, and hemp is the incense that brings us closer to GOD.

THE NECTAR OF DELIGHT
The Indian vadas sang of Cannabis as one of the divine nectars, able to give man anything from good health and long life to visions of the gods. The Zend-Avesta of 600 B.C. mentions an intoxicating resin, and the Assyrians used Cannabis as an incense as early as the ninth century B.C..

Ancient Temple Hashish Incense! Did Jesus Inhale?

Cannabis and the Christ: Jesus used Marijuana

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Just What Was He Smoking?
Book Says Nixon Took Mood-Altering Drug

Elvis and Nixon "Fire it up!"

The Meeting
On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley paid a visit to President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C. The meeting was initiated by Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page letter requesting a visit with the President and suggesting that he be made a "Federal Agent-at-Large" in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. The events leading up to and after the meeting are detailed in the documentation and photographs included here, which include Presley's handwritten letter, memoranda from Nixon staff and aides, and the thank-you note from Nixon for the gifts (including a Colt 45 pistol and family photos) that Presley brought with him to the Oval Office.



Tricky Dick. Too bad that Nixon didn't choose cannabis instead of Dilantin as his preferred drug.
Ethan Russo, MD September 09, 2000

Nixon Launched The 30 Years' War as Election Issue



30 Years of Failure I served in Vietnam under President Nixon. I can assure you that Mr. Nixon was one of the most corrupt and double dealing Presidents America ever had. All the “War on Drugs” was a political diversion; however, it now has become “Law Enforcement’s” form of profit sharing or their “Cash Cow”. The politicians who support this “War” are morally wrong and spiritually bankrupt. It’s time that America stood up to this monster. Putting our children in prison is Not the answer. It’s time to slap the “Drug Warriors” in the face for this quiet holocaust.
Posted by Frank on September 09, 2000

U.S. law enforcement spends $7.5 to $10 billion annually enforcing marijuana laws.
According to the FBI, 720,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2001.
Keith Stroup, (NORML)

"Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street
but also to protect the public from harmful ideas."
Robert Ingersoll, then Director of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs, in a column by Jack Anderson in the Washington Post, June 24, 1972, p. 31 (Ingersoll became the first director of the DEA in 1974)



Patients Out Of Time
Medical Marijuana Wins Again - 11/05/99
Next on MMJ: How To Set Up the Program - 11/04/99

"Patients Out of Time is the only national non-profit in the United States
that focuses only on therapeutic cannabis issues."
medicalcannabis.com



Press Release: Patients Out Of Time
Patients Out Of Time - Cannabis As Medicine!


http://www.conquestdesign.com/uncler/index.html

"Cannabis indica is one of the best additions to cough mixtures that we possess, as it quiets the tickling in the throat, and yet does not constipate or depress the system as does morphine."
- Practical Therapeutics (1895) By Hobart Hare.

KI02A Warren Teed Products Company of Columbus Ohio
- A cough syrup meant for children.*
Each Tablet Contains:* Extc. Cannabis 1-20 gr., Extc. Hyoscyamus 1-20 gr., Iodiized Lime 1-2 gr., Powd. Ipecac 1-12 gr., Arematics q. , - Dissolve 6 tablets in 18 fluid drams of water and give 10 to 15 min., for cough and 1 dram as expectorant.* For adults 1 or 2 tablets as required.*

"Green" Cough Syrup

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
-- President John F. Kennedy

Employee Who Uses ‘Medical’ Marijuana May Be Fired

High Court Hears Case on MMJ in The Workplace
By The Associated Press November 08, 2005 Salem, Ore. *
An attorney for Columbia Forest Products Inc. argued before the Oregon Supreme Court that voters who approved the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act never intended to force companies to let employees come to work with the drug in their systems. But Philip Lebenbaum, an attorney representing a mill worker who was fired after failing several drug tests, told the justices Monday that his client's medical condition left him legally disabled, requiring his employer to make reasonable accommodations for him in the workplace under the Oregonians with Disabilities Law.
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More Job Applicants Failing Workplace Drug Test

The American Civil Liberties Union, in a 1999 report, argued that drug testing programs were not cost-effective - costing industries millions of dollars a year to nab the small percentage of workers who use drugs.

The ACLU said that the federal government spent $11.7million to test nearly 29,000 workers in 1990. Only 153 employees flunked, putting the cost of finding each user at $77,000, according to the ACLU.

Citing several academic and other studies, the ACLU says that drug users are not any more likely than their nonuser counterparts to have workplace accidents.

Drug Testing Feels Economic Pressures
Policing For Profit: The Drug War's Hidden Economic Agenda
Spoils of Drug War Forfeitures Prove Too Lucrative
ACLU * NORML

If I instituted drug testing at Cypress,
I would get a brick through my windshield, and I would deserve it.
--T.J. Rogers, President, Cypress Semiconductor

Just Say No To Drug Tests
Setting Drug Impairment Levels Far Off
Drug-Test Case Pitting Ideology Against Law
The Whizzinator: A House Panel's No. 1 Priority

Pisstasters links/arts
CannabisNews Drug Testing Archives
CannabisNews Pisstasters articles
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. . . unfortunately, we can't control the actions of everyone.
-- Bill Clinton, April 20, 1993

What To Do When Marijuana Comes To Work By Paula Barran
Keizertimes November 11, 2005 Oregon
Marijuana is illegal, sometimes. Until the Oregon Supreme Court decides Washburn v. Columbia Forest Products, you won’t know for sure if it’s illegal on the job. Here’s what happened, and what employers can do while waiting for the decision. Federally, marijuana cannot be prescribed or used. In June, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the federal government’s right to enforce the Controlled Substances Act regardless of the laws in any state.
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High on Politics By Tom Hinkle
Temple News November 08, 2005*Philadephia, PA
Ralph Nader, the third party contender for President in the 2000 election, who is well known for his support of legalizing marijuana for personal use, spoke to Temple students and media last Thursday, Nov. 3, in the Student Center Annex. "I support decriminalization of marijuana, but regulated," Nader said. This would provide for a regulated distribution of the substance similar to that of alcohol, Nader said. Of the plant's commercial uses Nader said, "Industrial hemp has nothing to do with marijuana uses, it's a great thing."
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Robert Randall
The patient who made legal history
when he persuaded a Washington, DC federal court
that his use of marijuana was a matter of medical necessity.

Father of the Medical Marijuana Movement.
1948-2001

An Open Letter about Medical Marijuana
Comments from Elvy Musikka, glaucoma patient and one of only eight people in the U.S. allowed to receive marijuana legally as medicine from the federal government. December 14, 1997 Hollywood, Florida

Welcome to George McMahon's Home Page
Welcome to my home page. I am the 5th legal medical marijuana recipient in the United States. Since March of 1990, I have been receiving a monthly prescription for medical marijuana from the federal government. At the current time, there are only eight of us left.

A Quarter Ounce a Day BY ANDREW SLATON
Texas man lives by -- and fights for -- medical marijuana



Patients Out of Time
Cannabis as Medicine
Fish Pond Plantation, 1472 Fish Pond Road,
Howardsville, VA 24562
TEL (804) 263-4484** FAX (804) 263-6753
email: Patients@MedicalCann abis.com

The Missoula Study

The advent of AIDS created a whole new group of applicants, but for unannounced reasons the Public Health Service of the first Bush administration closed the program to new patients in 1992. "A significant number," report the authors, "had received medical approval but were never supplied."
The Missoula Study by MICHAEL KING June 20, 2003


http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?Group_ID=4516

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Drug Enforcement Administration
In The Matter Of
MARIJUANA RESCHEDULING PETITION
Docket No. 86-22
OPINION AND RECOMMENDED RULING, FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW AND DECISION OF
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE
FRANCIS L. YOUNG, Administrative Law Judge
DATED: SEPTEMBER 6, 1988

The evidence in this record clearly shows that marijuana has been accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers of very ill people, and doing so with safety under medical supervision. It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence in this record.

The administrative law judge recommends that the Administrator conclude that the marijuana plant considered as a whole has a currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, that there is no lack of accepted safety for use of it under medical supervision and that it may lawfully be transferred from Schedule I to Schedule II. The judge recommends that the Administrator transfer marijuana from Schedule I to Schedule II.

Francis L. Young
Dated: SEP 6 1988

Virtues' of Ganja
Legitimizing Ganja
The Ganjawar Fraud
Pot Potency? Boomers' blissfully unfazed by mere facts.
Think of the message being sent to the kids?
Thank you Miss Rosa

If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution
inhibit the government's ability to govern the people,
we should look to limit those guarantees.
President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993

US: Column: A Foul Tragedy by Garrison Keillor
In These Times 01 Nov 2005 (US)
Website * Details

Democrats Fled In The Face Of Danger



We Democrats are at our worst when we try to emulate Republicans as we did in signing onto the "war" on drugs that has ruined so many young lives.

The cruelty of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984 is stark indeed, as are the sentencing guidelines that impose mandatory minimum sentences for minor drug possession-guidelines in the 1986 Anti-Drug Abuse Act that sailed through Congress without benefit of public hearings, drafted before an election by Democrats afraid to be labeled "soft on drugs." As a result, a marijuana grower can land in prison for life without parole while a murderer might be in for eight years.

No rational person can defend this; it is a Dostoevskian nightmare and it exists only because politicians fled in the face of danger.

That includes Bill Clinton, under whose administration the prosecution of Americans for marijuana went up hugely, so that now there are more folks in prison for marijuana than for violent crimes. More than for manslaughter or rape. This only makes sense in the fantasy world of Washington, where perception counts for more than reality.

To an old Democrat, who takes a ground view of politics-What is the actual effect of this action on the lives of real people?-it is a foul tragedy that makes you feel guilty about enjoying your freedom.



If suddenly on a Friday night the red lights flash and the cops yank your teenage son and his little envelope of marijuana into the legal meatgrinder and some bullet-headed prosecutor decides to flex his muscle and charge your teenager-because he had a .22 rifle in his upstairs bedroom closet-with a felony involving the use of a firearm, which under our brutal sentencing code means he can be put on ice for 20 years, and the prosecutor goes at him hammer and tong and convinces a passive jury and your boy's life is sacrificed so this creep can run for Congress next year-this is not your cross alone to bear.

If the state cuts off your right hand with a meat cleaver on my account and I don't object, then it is my cleaver and my fingerprints on it. I don't dare visit Sandstone Federal Prison here in Minnesota for fear of what I'd see there: People who chose marijuana, a more benign drug than alcohol, and got caught in the religious war that we Democrats in a weak moment signed onto. God help us if we form alliance with such bullies as would destroy a kid's life for raising cannabis plants.

Garrison Keillor is the host and writer of A Prairie Home Companion, now in its 26th year on the air. This adapted excerpted from Keillor's new book, Homegrown Democrat is reprinted by arrangement with Viking, a member of Penguin Group ( USA ) Inc.

'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'



Prison Profit and Slave Labor
Slave labor means big bucks for U.S. corporations
The Real Price of Prisons
The Drug War Refugees

DEA Success Update: Let's see. After 20 years of relentless federal Drug War activity, while the price of world-class marijuana has gone from $60 an ounce to $450, the price of quality cocaine has plummeted from $125 a gram to $30, and 30%-pure heroin has dropped from $700 a gram to about $100. Way to go, boys!
High Times, April 1995



The author of BUSTED! Drug War Survival Skills from the Bust to Begging for Mercy Chris Fabricant sits down with CC correspondent Paul DeRienzo and talks about his new book.
F U L L S T O R Y http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4577.html

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US Sailing Bans Sailor for Medical Marijuana By Jessica Ricci
Source: Providence Phoenix Rhode Island November 23, 2005
Competitive sailor Irvin Rosenfeld has been using medical grade marijuana for 20 years to treat multiple congenital cartilaginous exostosis, a disease that causes bone tumors to grow on most of the long bones of his body. The 52-year-old Florida stockbroker, who joined a federal program called Compassionate Care Investigational New Drug in 1982, says the 10 to 12 marijuana cigarettes he gets each day from Uncle Sam offer the only relief for his excruciating chronic pain. He is one of six current participants in the program.
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The Case for Legal Pot Use



What's In Popeye's Pipe? By Dana Larsen
Cannabis Culture. Posted February 8, 2005.
The world's most famous sailor-man may be tooting more than just spinach in his pipe. The evidence is circumstantial, but it is there, and when added together it presents a compelling picture that, for many readers at least, Popeye's strength-giving spinach is meant as a clear metaphor for the miraculous powers of marijuana.

"The DEA is unequivocally opposed to the legalization of illicit drugs
(including, marijuana, hemp, and hemp seed oil)."
- US DEA booklet, "Speaking Out Against Legalization"

WHERE'S THE HEMP? By John E. Dvorak, Hempologist

(Excerpted) The U.S.S. Constitution (Old Ironsides) is one of this country's national treasures. Over 60 tons of HEMP on was used on the Constitution. Everything from Sails, rigging, uniforms, ropes, oakum, etc

On her 200th birthday. On July 21, 1997, Constitution sailed off of Marblehead, MA under her own power for the first time in 116 years. The fact that little, or possibly no, "true" cannabis hemp was used during Constitution's restoration mars the celebration of this historic event.

"that's not restoring it, that's defacing it"
Chris Conrad (author, Hemp For Health)

Was this oversight a conspiracy by an evil industrial/political cabal, who, for over 60 years, have plotted and schemed to prevent cannabis hemp from being used to provide innumerable eco-friendly products? Evidence of this exists in the March, 1997 issue of Buzz Magazine, where DEA special agent, Abel Reynoso, was quoted as saying "Nobody cares about the environmental uses of hemp. That's taking us back to the Stone Age. . . Whatever product you can make from hemp, DuPont will come out with a synthetic fiber to replace it."



The U.S.S. Constitution “Old Ironsides”
Jack Herer’s “The Emperor Wears No Clothes”
There were at least 60 tons of Hemp on the U.S.S. Constitution alone. Partial list of rigging (rope) required for the 1927 restoration of the U.S.S. Constitution from “The Frigate Constitution” by F. Alexander Magoun, S.B., S.M. The Southwest Press. ©1928 by the Marine Research Society, Boston, Massachusetts, Pgs. 96, 97. Each mast (fore, mizen, main, etc.) required lifts, braces, reefs, jiggers, tackles, etc. The Constitution carried well more than four miles of hemp rope.

Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed

Certain American industrialists had a great deal to do with bringing fascist regimes into being in both Germany and Italy. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."
- William E. Dodd, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1937

Shadow of the Swastika

Switching cotton fields to hemp fields would improve: the quality of our soil, the durability of our clothes, the safety of our ground source water, the quality of our air, and the preservation of forests cut for paper (not to mention saving hundreds of thousands of lives prematurely ended by disease caused by pollution) In 1993, two hundred and fifty thousand tons of pesticides were used to grow cotton world-wide.

These pesticides wash into streams and rivers, destroying eco-systems and poisoning human water supplies. Today the water supplies of many large cities are contaminated. Many of the vegetables we eat and clothes we wear contain pesticide residues. We must develop and utilize sustainable technologies if we want to survive and prosper in the next millenium. Hemp is a perfect sustainable raw material for thousands of products. Textiles, cosmetics, building materials, fuel and food can all be made from hemp.

"The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer

Jack's Hemporium



Chapter 4: The Last Days of Legal Cannabis

Coincidentally, in 1937, DuPont had just patented processes for making plastics from oil and coal, as well as a new sulfate/sulfite process for making paper from wood pulp. According to DuPont's own corporate records and historians,* these processes accounted for over 80 percent of all the company's railroad carloadings over the next 60 years into the 1990s.

*Author's research and communications with DuPont, 1985-1996. If hemp had not been made illegal, 80 percent of DuPont's business would never have materialized and the great majority of the pollution which has poisoned our Northwestern and Southeastern rivers would not have occurred.

Great Wars were Fought to Ensure the Availability of Hemp

Popeye the pothead by Dana Larsen (02 Feb, 2005)

POPEYE'S PIPE
Cartoon Brew: March 2005 Archives


Popeye cover (at right) from October 1939, drawn by Joseph Musial.

Ships and Sailors

Ninety percent* of all ships' sails (since before the Phoenicians, from at least the 5th Century B.C. until long after the invention and commercialization of steam ships - mid- to late-19th century) were made from hemp.

*The other 10% were usually flax or minor fibers like ramie, sisal, jute, abaca.
(Abel, Ernest, Marijuana: The First 12,000 Years, Plenum Press, 1980; Herodotus, Histories, 5th Century B.C.; Frazier, Jack, The Marijuana Farmers, 1972; U.S. Agricultural Index, 1916-1982; USDA film, Hemp for Victory, 1942.)

The word "canvas" is the Dutch pronunciation (twice removed, from French and Latin) of the Greek word "Kannabis."*

In addition to canvas sails, until this century virtually all of the rigging, anchor ropes, cargo nets, fishing nets, flags, shrouds, and oakum (the main protection for ships against salt water, used as a sealant between loose or green beams) were made from the stalk of the marijuana plant. Even the sailors' clothing, right down to the stitching in the seamen's rope-soled and (sometimes) "canvas" shoes, was crafted from cannabis.*

Additionally, the ships' charts, maps, logs, and Bibles were made from paper containing hemp fiber from the time of Columbus (15th Century) until the early 1900s in the Western European/American World, and by the Chinese from the 1st Century A.D. on. Hemp paper lasted 50 to 100 times longer than most preparations of papyrus, and was a hundred times easier and cheaper to make.