From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: VIDEOS: Hemp and the Economy/Environment/Medicine
Followup-To: alt.activism.d
Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Organization: University of Missouri
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 06:01:16 GMT

Topic 191       NEW VIDEOS ABOUT HEMP 
insthemp        Industrial Uses Of The Hemp Plant        4:30 pm  Apr 14, 1992 
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The Institute for Hemp 
PO Box 65130  St Paul, MN  55165 
612-222-2628 
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ATTENTION ATTENTION 


The Institute for HempsU continuing educational program  

has developed 


TWO NEW TOOLS FOR THE CANNABIS REFORM MOVEMENT TO  
EDUCATE THE PUBLIC about the Cannabis Plant ! 


        The Institute for Hemp has completed TWO NEW VIDEOS  

about Cannabis Sativa, Hemp, or Marijuana.  After the exceptional  

reception of our first Video documentary on Cannabis called _The  

Return of the New Billion Dollar Crop_, it was clearly  

necessary to go into depth about the use and history of the Cannabis  

plant.   

        With that we have developed RThe Return ofS  series of  

videos.   

        The first video _The Return of the New Billion Dollar  

Crop_ looks at the broad scope of Cannabis.  Covering the History,  

Commercial, and some medicinal use of the plant, this video covers  

it all in 30 mins.  If you know little about cannabis and want to learn  

more then this is the perfect source of information. 


        The Second Video RThe Return of the History of  

Cannabis Sativa HempS.   After many requests to expand on the  

History of Cannabis we developed this film to fill that need.   

Covering in detail the history of cannabis.  From the Dawn of  

recorded history to present day the complete history of hemp is  

given in this thirtry min film. 


        The Third Video _The Return of the Commercial  

Cannabis Crop_.  After many requests to go into detail the  

commercial use of cannabis we developed this film.  Covering in  

detail several of the Thousands of commercial applications.  The film  

also explores their impact on the Economy, Environment, and Farm  

Community.  If your are interested in the commercial impact of  

hemp cultivation youUll love this film.  If you know nothing of the  

commercial applications you can quickly see the need to add cannabis  

to the farm crop. 



Hemp for Victory, 

John Birrenbach 

President/Founder 

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One of the 10-odd articles I periodically post documenting any/all of
(*)Tobacco is *much*  more dangerous than Marijuanna
(*)Hypocrisy of "drug-war"
(*)Human suffering: medicinal use of MJ (cancer patients) disallowed
	for Drug-War Propaganda reasons
(*)Human suffering: "`Consider these figures,' Koop ended. `Last year
	[1988] in the United States, 2,000 people died from cocaine.
	In the 	same year, cigarettes killed 390,000 people.'"
    (well over 400,000 killed per year today)
(*)Drug War used as cover for "counter-insurgency" repression abroad
(*)Drug War used repressively domestically in U.S. which has highest
imprisonment rate in the *world.* Also racially discriminated.

	etc,etc
--Harel
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Included: lib/domestic/wod/mj.med
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	    U.S. war on drugs claims medical victims, too
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People suffering from AIDS, cancer and some other painful diseases are
being victimized by the Bush administration's war on drugs, according
to organizers seeking reform of the nation's marijuana laws.

Late last month, the National Organization to Reform the Marijuana
Laws (NORML) held a three-day lobbying session in Washington to
convince legislators of the values of the illicit plant. [Aside from
Cockburn's columns, the Nation, ITT, etc, usually don't think to
include group's addresses/tels -HB]

Robert Randall, founder of the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics
(ACT), has argued for a decade that marijuana is of great medicinal
value and should be made available in appropriate cases. An estimated
30 million Americans consume the drug on at least on occasional basis,
even though its possession is treated as a crime in most of the 50
states.

At present, only five persons [!] in the U.S. are legally permitted to
smoke marijuana. One of them, a bone cancer patient, uses it as a
muscle relaxant, while another find it helpful in reducing the
severity of his spasmodic seizures. The three remaining individuals,
all afflicted with glaucoma, are able to take advantage of marijuana's
documented ability to alleviate pain associated with this eye disease.

Randall, who is among the three glaucoma patients, was the first
American to win the right to use marijuana as a therapeutic agent.
Through ACT, he now assists others engaged in the arduous and
protracted effort to gain legal access to the drug.

Randall's Washington-based organization came close two years ago to
achieving a major breakthrough. Ruling on a suit brought by the
alliance, an administrative judge with the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Agency (DEA) agreed that marijuana's legal status should be changed.

Judge Francis Young concluded that marijuana ought to be removed from
the DEA's "Schedule One," which includes drugs regarded as addicting
and entirely lacking in medicinal properties. LSD and heroin are also
proscribed under the same category.

Young ruled in favor of ACT's contention that marijuana should be
place on Schedule Two, which lists addicting drugs that do have
therapeutic uses. Cocaine is included on that roster. [Note: I
remember my 10th grade social studies teacher telling us of cocaine
having been used as a pain killer for her following eye surgery -HB]

Such action would allow physicians to prescribe marijuana while
retaining the current prohibition against its general use. In
announcing his decision, Young described the drug as "one of the
safest therapeutically active substances known to man."

In December 1989, however, the DEA's overseers decreed that marijuana
would remain on Schedule One despite Young's ruling. ACT is appealing
that order, but many observers believe that the federal government
will strongly resist any attempt to ease restriction on marijuana
use.

"It would be a big public-relations loss for DEA to admit that
marijuana has any therapeutic value," says John Dunlap, a spokesman
for NORML. "They're going to keep fighting very hard."

The publicity barrage accompanying the war on drugs is part of what
makes it difficult to gains official approval for use of marijuana as
a medicinal agent. "Doctors are very leery about openly recommending
marijuana use because of the whole atmosphere created by the war on
drugs," says Mary Lynn Mathre, head of NORML's council on marijuana
and health. "They're afraid they'll be suspected of being lenient
about illegal drugs."

Still, pressure continues to mount for liberalization of the
government's attitude toward therapeutic marijuana use. Recently, for
example, a researcher at a university in Florida reported that the
active ingredient in Cannabis destroyed the herpes virus in test-tube
experiments. Because millions of Americans are afflicted with some
form of herpes, that finding may potentially be of great political
significance.

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[Article by Kevin Kelley in In These Times, Sept. 19-25, 1990]

Call or write your representatives and let them know how you feel
about this!

Email me if you'd like the address to write to to get a free issue of
In These Times (ITT). Please email me the address/tel of NORML (or
other "serious") related groups, to be added to the Activist Mailing
List's (AML) resource file "groups"

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Toll-free number for U.S. Congress switchboard     (800) 852-3446
Local number of U.S. Congress switchboard          (202) 224-3121

[When you reach the Capitol Hill switchboard, simply ask to be
connected to the office of the Member, Senator or committee you
want to reach. Please call during normal business hours on the
East Coast.]

White House: 					(202)-456-7639

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Washington, D.C. 20510		Washington, D.C. 20515

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