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  Marique September 24, 2009 at 10:06pm

  I have to agree with you about the weed nowaday being more modified than back in the 70s for instance. Back then the major supply of weed came from everyday people who would go into a desolate woods somewhere with a shovel, pails of water, and some germinated little baby plants in paper cups.....Then they would go to the woods every week and water them, and put beer cans out to keeps the slugs in control. Maybe they would even furtilize with some guana (bat shit...which smells REALLY REALLY bad...if they could afford some). Then the plants would grow twelve feet tall if they were lucky and had just the right spot with the right soil and sun.....Then they would sneek into the woods in camo, and cut down the plants, trash bag them and then take them out of the woods at night. No chemicals added and it was pretty natural. (I will not be telling how I know this, lol, but if you even need growing tips I could really educate and we will leave it at that, lol). And not too much of a head trip in the good ole days of old, that woods grown natural weed was good for the munchies, a few gigles and then nappy.
  
  Now a days the weed has been so modified that it can really mess your head and lungs up tremendously. Now pesticides are used, strains are mixed, grown in grow houses, often using hydroponics for the best yield. Often there is mold on the weed that can be kind of toxic to those allergic because the growers would put it out for sale before it was completely dry enough and in the baggies it starts to mold and get fuzzy...but they don't care because it is risky having bales of weed hanging upsidedown in your house on clotheslines waiting for it to dry. Guess I better shut up while I am still ahead.
  
  I do not smoke any more, and I do not have any desire, it was a life choice I made. I had anerexia in the 80s and almost died and was hospitalized for months being force fed because I had no appetite and bad body image and self esteem issues. When I got out of the hospital finally, my doctor told me (unofficially when I refused to be put on addicting drugs like antidepressants) the best thing I could do is smoke a lot of weed because it would make me hungry and keep me from getting depressed, so I did smoke and was baked about every day for a long while. Then I desided that my lungs need a break because it really messed up my ashthma, and never missed it at all. Was easy to stop.
  
  I do think people do get hooked on smoking it though now a day, more psychological that physical addiction though..I have seen kids from the 80s-90s lose all direction and can't function on any level due to the stuff and that is sad. They became so psychologicaly dependent on the feeling that it gave them that they often could not even remember what it was like to not be stoned. So sad. They use it like a tranquilizer not realizing that it only intensifies a person feeling depressed. When you are "hooked" it is more of a monkey on your back, you feel like you cannot be without it, and have to have some at all cost. And you get stuck in the rut of trying to afford it, and other things suffer. Hard to hold a job when you are stoned 24/7 for openers, so often a person ends up selling it to just afford it...and downhill from there....
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  Marique May 26, 2009 at 10:38pm

  Ffantasssticcc post Yig, and I loved the part about Ford and the model T.
  
  I replied to a similar post about marijuana and hemp that was on Ipeace recently. This was my reply; it seems pertinent to this post too and am too lazy to rewrite it so will cut and paste. Here is my comment:
  
  "This was a very interesting article. It is so odd, but so typical that such a useful agricultural product be banned and demonized. So foolish actually. Actually I don't know what the big fuss is about marijuana either for that matter (I know I am opening myself up for debate here so will not expand the idea at this time.) My father was in Korea in the Korean War and when he was there he bought many products made out of hemp and brought them home when the war ended. When I was 20 he gave me a pair of hemp sandals, a plant hanger made out of hemp rope, a little basket made from coiled hemp, and some very beautiful placemats They were wonderful and I kept them for many years, and life as we know it did not come to an end! I did have a fatality with one of the placemats I had however. Back in the 70s I had a party at my house (back in the HIPPY days when I was young, happy and carefree, and loved my weed endlessly), and some idiot at my party got the idea, when seeing the Made In Korea of genuine HEMP label on the mat), that he would roll up my mat and try to smoke it! Of course he did not get a buzz, almost got smoke inhalation, and made my kitchen smell like hell, and damn near set my curtains afire. The guy was an idiot. Wished that he had read the article about the differences between industrial hemp and marijuana that was posted here in the hemp article. Now my poor mat set is missing one, and those mats are still as good as new. I have had them for 40 years and my dad got them many years before he gave them to me. So hemp has proved itself to be very durable as well. Great post, and brought back memories as well."
  
  Their reply to my reply:
  
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  Another reply I got:
  
  Permalink Reply by _______on February 21, 2009 at 7:27am
  
  Great commentary Marique! Hahaha.. very funny story of that guy who smoked your mat!!!. He must have got a head rush from that I'm sure. haha Well when I was in the Alps, they found a 15 000 year old well preserved man in a glacier. His clothes were sown with hemp thread. He was wearing a medicine pouch tied to his neck with only two things in it: cannabis or hemp flowers with seeds and psylocibin hallucinogenic mushrooms. I bet back in those days, there was no laws against it nor moral debates about using natural plant medicines from Mother Earth. People were not afraid yet of the power of plants. But I'm sure they didn't smoke their mats either. Peace, Love and laughs