Visions of a Sacred Tree
Several researchers have indicated that the use of cannabis by the native peoples of what is now known as North America pre-dates the arrival of Europeans in 1492. Early explorer Jacques Cartier, who was from a hemp growing district in France, reported hemp growing here and in use by the native Indians.  [Read more]

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The partnership of Cannabis with Indians and man has existed now probably for ten thousand years - since the discovery of agriculture in the Old World. One of our oldest cultivars, Cannabis has been a five- purpose plant: as a source of hempen fibres; for its oil; for its akenes or "seeds," consumed by man for food; for its narcotic properties; and therapeutically to treat a wide spectrum of ills in folk medicine and in modern pharmacopoeias. [Read more]

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THE CANNABIS PAPERS The Sacramental Use Of Cannabis Sativa

Indians beleive in the context of this spiritual belief where Nature is seen as a manifestation of Spirit, individuals didn't attempt to go beyond Nature or transcend Nature, but rather sought to establish themselves in a sacred bond with Nature through a direct and personal experience of the Mystery of the Natural World. Furthermore, it was also believed that only through this sacred bond with Nature one could gain access to other dimensions: the Dream Time; the Land of Enchantment; the Land Below the Waves or the realm of the Ancestors, etc.

This belief in the Immanence of the Divine served as a spiritual foundation for many cultures and religions, and was at one time found in all parts of the world. It can also be found existing in cultures as far back as 30,000 B.C.E. (Before the Common Era). The belief of Immanence was the predominant spiritual basis for all cultures which held the Goddess to be the supreme image of the Divine. The female was in fact the archetypal image of Nature. (Even today, Nature is universally regarded as "Mother Nature".) She united in herself the apparent opposites of light and dark, birth and death, mind and matter. And she reigned supreme over the religious landscape of the human mind and heart for well over 30,000 years. Bits and pieces of Her scriptures are left recorded in the ancient civilizations of Sumer, Babylon, Egypt and Indian.

In The Gnostic Gospel According to Thomas we discover Jesus clearly expressing this very idea: "The Kingdom of the Father is spread upon the earth and men do not see it." "Split a piece of wood, I am there; lift up the stone and you will find Me there".(13) This idea was also eloquently expressed in the twelfth-century Hermetic maxim: "God is an intelligible sphere, whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere;"(14) and later by the German mystic Meister Eckhart: "God is in all things, as being, as activity, as power."(15) What has to be understood here, is that unless and until one personally experiences this Truth for oneself, it will only remain someone else's theory.

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The Study of Hemp With Indians

Until 2000 years ago, Cannabis sativa was an important part of almost every major religion in the world. There is ample evidence to suggest that ancient Mesopotamians, Indians, Persians, Scythians, Assyrians, Chaldeans, Buddists, Hebrews, Sufis, Moslems, Egyptians, Africans, Chinese, Japanese, Native Americans and Celts used hemp stock to make clothing and rope, the seed for food, and the flowers for medicine and to achieve mystical revelation. There are so many Gods and Goddess' attributed to creating or being associated with cannabis that it would be an extremely difficult task to collect and list them all, with all of their various translations in various languages from different times in history. Of course, magic mushrooms, datura, peyote and several other mind-altering plants were also considered to have sacred status among early peoples. While these power plants have magical, healing properties that have become known to humankind in certain areas, cannabis was certainly the oldest and most widespread of all sacred plants, providing material, nutritional and spiritual benefits  [Read more]
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HEMP / Marijuana Suppression
In this book is documented all kinds of mind-blowing long-suppressed facts about Humanity's best friend "The Cannabis Plant". Hemp or Cannabis as it is scientifically referred to is the fastest growing biomass source on Earth. Biomass is a cheap and efficient source of fuel. As a matter of fact, if we were to farm only 6% of the country's available farmland with hemp we could meet all of the country's Industrial energy and transportation needs. Hemp is 26 times stronger than cotton and lasts 10 times longer. We can produce 4 times as much paper from Hemp as we can from trees at one fourth the cost and 1/5 the pollution and it is 10 times stronger and lasts ten times longer. It is a fact that Betsy Ross made our first flag "Old Glory" from Hemp fiber. Also, our Constitution and Declaration of Independance were printed on Hemp paper. The soldiers clothes during the revolutionary war were made from Hemp. The second most prescribed medicine in the United States for 150 years for over 100 different medical illnesses was a Cannabis extract and it is alot stronger when taken in concentrated form. This means that all the children in America for 150 years were brought up as DRUG USERS from birth. Or, it just means simply, that we had a better understanding of herbs and their medicinal usage 100 years ago than we do today. So who has REALLY lost their mind, people who smoke pot, or the "NORMALS" ? 

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Firstly I think it is important to look at Cannabis in its present-day context. Leaving aside the matter of narcotic properties, the commercial use of the fibre as the raw material for textiles and cordage has brought about a quite unwarranted proliferation of specific names -- C. gigantea, C. indica, C. sativa and such, whereas in truth the plant is monotypic, all other so-called species being simply variants of the Cannabis sativa of Linneus which is in itself a readily adaptable, highly variable plant. Further Speculations (Read More)  http://www.student.utwente.nl/~sagi/artikel/longbowstring/string2.html