Do you understand why hemp must be made legal?

One of the greatest tragedies in mankind’s history has been the recent criminalization of hemp. I say recent because for the majority of man’s existence, hemp was not only unrestricted but greatly revered. However, due to misinformation and ignorance, many people see cannabis as a bad thing, which could not be further from the truth.

Nobody should be arrested for possessing cannabis, yet so many people are every hour. The fear that runs through someone’s heart when they are in that kind of situation should not be tolerated by anybody, yet some people believe that it is good to punish people for this. Do you believe you should be arrested, thrown in to a police car, and drained of thousands of dollars for drinking alcohol or smoking a cigarette, both of which are literally infinitely more dangerous than cannabis? If not, then why should one think that lives should be ruined for this?

Some people say cannabis should be illegal because it is dangerous. First of all, that statement is completely false. For thousands of years, cannabis has been used in a number of settings with perfect safety, and it has only been in the last hundred years out of over ten thousand years that ANY negative statements have been made about cannabis.

One clue to the effectiveness of cannabis is the simple fact that people derive great relief from just smoking it. Isn’t it amazing that smoking something is more effective to people than actual prescription medications? And the kicker is that cannabis reaches only a small fraction of its potential when smoked; the true power lies in extracts.

The best way to use cannabis medicinally is to extract the resins and concentrate them, forming a substance known as hemp oil. An ideal and easy extraction process was developed by a man named Rick Simpson, who also used his product on hundreds of people with amazing success, even curing many cases of terminal cancer.

The benefits don’t stop there. Hemp is an industrial powerhouse, as it can be converted in to literally thousands of products. It can act as a renewable fuel, replace trees as a source of paper (and paper made from hemp is much cleaner than that of trees), and the seeds from hemp are the most nutritious in the plant kingdom. These are only a few of the many things that hemp can do.

What could this world have been right now if cannabis was fully embraced when Rick Simpson discovered it could cure cancer, back in 2003? The economic crisis could have been avoided, you (the reader) would still have many family members who would still be alive and not have been taken by curable diseases, and this planet could already be on the path to full recovery and healing.

If you want to do something to help change the laws, join NORML or, most importantly, promote the use of hemp oil for medicine. While this will lead to the legalization of cannabis for recreation, medicine, and industry, the most important thing is that it will alleviate the horrendous pain of other human beings.

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