Refuse Censorship!

The US Senate has passed a bill, S.486, banning teaching or publishing information on how to manufacture controlled substances, and this includes how to grow marijuana. The House Bill that covers similar territory is HR.2987, which they may consider next January.

You can look up the status of US Bills at http://thomas.loc.gov/

Well, this is UnConstitutional, ridiculous, and patently offensive. I don't recommend becoming a pothead or junkie, and some drugs really can be dangerous as well as unwise (especially Tobacco and Alcohol), but some people benefit from medical use of marijuana, and some people just enjoy the stuff and don't want to deal with criminal syndicates to get it, and some of you want to grow marijuana as a good old capitalist farm crop. So I'm going to tell you how.

  1. Get Marijuana Seeds
  2. Plant them in dirt
  3. Water Them - enough, but not too much
  4. Put them somewhere light, either daylight or artificial
  5. Let God do his work - they'll grow just fine.
That's really all there is to it. There are some subtleties, like keeping cops from stealing them, and separating the male and female flowers like George Washington told his gardener to do (if you're concerned about getting extra-high-quality product), and whether to use fertilizers or hydroponics or organic dirt, and deciding when to harvest the stuff, and drying it so it doesn't get moldy, but you can work those out for yourself. So practice, practice, practice!

Here's a picture of some nice medical marijuana, from a medical journal, and a book on medical marijuana at NORML's site:
http://www.nwphysician.com/past-issues/marijuana.jpg
Here's a picture of growing plants from the Corbis Digital Image Library in Bellvue, WA:
growing plants
Here are some pictures of marijuana being stolen by cops:
a plant a whole truckload of it at dmv.com

What to do with the Marijuana when you have it

ABC News Article on effects of marijuana
picture of smoking joint

Good People

NORML NORML
The ACLU Card - Don't Leave Home Without It!
The Drug Policy Foundation
Hemp BC - Until being forced to close recently, sold enough hemp seeds to grow more marijuana per year than the Canadian government was confiscating.
The Libertarian Party
Ecopaper.comPaper made using non-wood products, including tobacco, bananas, and coffee, but not yet hemp. They don't market these as flavored smoking papers, and I haven't tried them, but you could...
The US Agriculture Department - Put out a film Hemp For Victory teaching farmers how to grow hemp to make rope for the war effort. You could get a draft exemption for growing 5 acres - unfortunately they'd stopped this program by the Vietnam war :-)


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Bill Stewart, December 1999