Dan to the "T"'s Blog – November 2008 Archive (3)

Billions of people makes for alot of trash

Combined with pollution and global warming makes for the melting ice caps

And when water covers earth remember our new home is forming

We'll all me living on an island of trash



Yeah I said

Trash trash

An island of trash

We'll all be living on an island of trash

Yeah I said

Trash trash

An island of trash



You know when you throw away your plastic it never really goes away

It just… Continue

Well once upon a time in 1776 Thomas Jefferson signed his name on a piece of marijuana, and this document was a symbol of freedom and of liberty, at least for the rich, white, gentry. And time marched along, this plant that I referred to has been used for everything from medicine to the American flag. And now it seems to me that somewhere along the way things got messed up, yeah, messed up, for marijuana.



A gift of God to my brothers and me. Oh marijuana…the government wants to test… Continue

HISTORY FACTS



*Hemp has been grown for at least the last 12,000 years for fiber (textiles and paper) and food. It has been effectively prohibited in the United States since the 1950s.



*George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew hemp. Ben Franklin owned a mill that made hemp paper. Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence on hemp paper.



*When US sources of "Manila hemp" (not true hemp) was cut off by the Japanese in WWII, the US Army and US… Continue