Sjoerd Kold

Anyone who enjoys even a casual relationship with our favourite plant must be aware of the vast gulf between the official portrayal of cannabis and their own real-world understanding of it With only a little personal experience of the recreational uses of cannabis or a brief outline of its medicinal and industrial applications, the average person can see that the images of cannabis given by the mass media display a stark and worrying divergence from reality

Hemp is one of the oldest crops domesticated by man The history of hemp in Holland also goes back for thousands of years

Cannabis sativa L is the scientific name given to the cannabis or hemp plant in 1753 by the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus

# 1 Rosie Boycott, Independent on Sunday, 28 Sept 1997 "If alcohol is a tiger, cannabis is merely a mouse" # 2 Jon Owen Jones, UK MP "We have tried the prohibition route for 30 years and it obviously, patently isn't working" # 3 Judge James Grey, Orange County Superior Court, Santa Ana, CA, at the DPF Conference, November 1996: "If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one" # 4 President Jimmy Carter: "Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself" # 5 The Economist March 28th 1992: "Medicines often produce side effects

Why criminalizing industrial cannabis is criminal The cannabis plant is being rediscovered for it environmental friendly applicability As you might know hemp is one of the oldest crops domesticated by man