The Plant of Knowledge

[Rheinpirat]

Hello together,

 

here is some satira about weed, putting the plant in the position to talk for herself...you know, when you're stoned you get all kinds of ideas, and above all each assignment or presentation possible i do about weed...so here it is:

 

Author: Rheinpirat

Date:February 2005

Source: see below

Copyright: Rheinpirat

 

 

 

The Plant of Knowledge

 

 

 

 

Cannabis Sativa L, is my dusty name , that, watered by controversial discussions, grew to the modern Tree of Knowledge. Showing two branches, each polarizing the other one.

The whole variety of my fruit is still unknown.

 

Biased by emotions, subjective discussions about me cease in my own nebulosity, as still little is known about the full range of my properties.

 

Why I am nurturing myself by the gloomy twilight that I am still capable of living in, is related to the first connotation, that one associates with me: I am a drug.. Being the most illicitly used drug in the world, my first branch lies in a shadow, not clearly visible, as the way of how I work and what troubles I cause is still unclear.

 

Particularly these psychedelic properties made me, between 1842 and 1900, the second most used medicine for multiple illnesses, and some scientists speculate that in case of legalisation, 40 to 50 % of all medicine could contain me, while on the other side hypothesises about severe cognitive disturbances blow like a constant airstream against me, strengthening and weakening my stem at the same time.

 

But my stem doesn’t break, being highly durable and yet stronger and lighter than wood. However. This important aspect of me is hidden deep under my palisade cells, as only those who truly search fr the answer have the courage and endurance to look underneath those cells, whereas my intoxicating flowers fulfil their biological duty: Attracting other mammals to collect my pollen. But some thousand years ago, some crazy, adventurous human thought: Why not smoke it!? Well, and that caused my misery today.

 

When my cultivation was forbidden during the 1930s in America, I was deeply shocked: . “Assassin of Youth”, they called me, because there were horrible things like brutal murder related to me. Once they said I turn people into murderers, and later they say that I make them pacifistic- and were upset about both of it. What shall I say?

Later it was found out that most of the evidence used to outlaw me in America, from where it spread to nearly all countries of the world, was rather fiction than reality! Thought they knew that over all those thousands of years.

 

I never wanted to harm anyone, I left it to the people to decide what to do with me. And after thousands of years of help- they forbid me, and that’s all the thanks I get. Certainly, if those humans were in trouble again, they’d think: All is fair in love and war. And so, despite of my ban, the governments of Germany and The United States, for example, encouraged people again to cultivate me. “Hemp for Victory”- the first movie made about me! I was so proud though it wasn’t quite sufficient for a star at the walk of fame.

But as soon as the war was over, they put me in this lonely twilight I am still living in: Yet from North Africa to Siberia you can find me….And I survive, for I do not demand too much, and when I leave the soil is in better condition than before.

 

That was one reason why I was a popular crop back in the good, old days! Simply out of my friendly nature, I worked hard for the people. They used the fibres of my stem for everything, it is estimated, that I can be useful for more than 30 000 products nowadays. As those humans are chopping down the rainforests, one can use me for making paper. One acre of my fellow mates is equal to four acre of prime timber land. Leave the dignity to the trees, for I lost mine long time ago.

 

Indeed, humans used me for paper, the earliest ones some 10 thousand years ago. And so I am proud, not only to be cultivated by America’s founding fathers, like George Washington, but also be a founding father myself, for the Declaration of Independence was written on me. But that was before the time, where news about horrible things related to me where everywhere, playing a major role in my destiny. What irony- I helped mass media to exist- in modern terms, I was the hardware of the Gutenberg- Revolution.

 

And I kept being a part of history. When some guy called Levi Strauß designed his first jeans, it wasn’t cotton who had the honour, but it was me. Nowadays, cotton overgrew me, although 50% of all herbi- and pesticides in the world are used on cotton.

Or let’s pick on Henry Ford: back then he didn’t have Super Unleaded for gasoline.

No, it was me.

 

People now slowly start to reconsider the role I once played in their lives, and start to look at me again. Yet, with the same suspicious eyes, as their attention is attracted by my flowers, sumptuously displaying the potential that I would like to hide, and for which I am hidden.

Injustice! Up to today, people only see the ‘evil apple’ that I am cultivating.

 

Not only Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise. The apple tree as well. And me.

Tough luck. Adam smoked me under the fellow tree, and as I cause hunger and laziness, he ate the most convenient and nearest fruit- a shinny, red apple. So I was convicted, too.

Tough luck.

 

 

 

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Bibliograpy

 

 

 

 http://www.ecomall.com/greenshopping/sdethemp7.htm

 http://www.hempology.com/textbook/introduction.html

 http://www.masscann.org/hemp/

 http://funnyfact.com/marijuanafacts.shtml

 http://www.cannabis.com/untoldstory/hemp_2.shtml

 http://www.cannabis.com/untoldstory/hemp_2.shtml

 http://www.innvista.com/health/nutrition/hemp.htm

 http://biotech.icmb.utexas.edu/botany/hemphist.html

 http://www.cannabis.com/untoldstory/hemp_2.shtml

 http://www.globalhemp.com/News/2004/April/...is_for_fuel.php

 http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/history/history.htm

 http://www.jackherer.com/chapter05.html

 http://www.jackherer.com/chapter06.html

 http://www.jackherer.com/chapter06.html

 http://www.cannabis.com/untoldstory/hemp_2.shtml

 http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/hemp4v.htm

 http://www.interpol.int/Public/Drugs/cannabis/default.asp

 Bonnie& Whitebread, The Marihuana Conviction, University of Virginia Press,1974

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Not only Adam and Eve were banished from Paradise. The apple tree as well. And me.

Tough luck. Adam smoked me under the fellow tree, and as I cause hunger and laziness, he ate the most convenient and nearest fruit- a shinny, red apple. So I was convicted, too.

Tough luck.

 

Muhahah Love it

[StonermanDan]

haha yeah the adam & eve bit is awesome

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[fsagertyaef]

nice

[Chev]

I really enjoyed that :thumbsup All I can say is: FREE THE WEED