Cannabis Chronicles

And now the final entry in today’s feature on the history behind plant prohibition . . .
King Hemp V: Industrial Disease
By Rand Clifford - October 20, 2007
Agriculturalists versus Industrialists
The King Hemp series began with: “America was just starting to crawl, and hemp was such an essential crop that farmers could be fined for not [...]

Wen now continue with Rand Clifford’s compelling tale on the background behind the criminalization of Marijuana, with part four, titled “Rope and Dope” . . .
King Hemp IV: Rope and Dope
By Rand Clifford - October 1, 2007Imagine…YOU are the legend, William Randolph Hearst. You unleash an old Mexican slang term—an alien, scary and [...]

Now we move on to part three of today’s feature . . .
King Hemp part 3: We Got Mugged—So Let’s Get Hemp Back
By Rand Clifford June 30, 2007
Prohibition of cannabis hemp was a mugging, a twisted and diabolical assault on the rights, health and well-being of Americans unparalleled in our history for [...]

Part two of today’s “feature”, originally penned by a fine gentleman by the name of Rand Clifford . . . 
King Hemp part 2: Battle Lines: Natural, Or Synthetic…Life, Or Death
By Rand Clifford June 25, 2007
Hemp is about life, renewal and future, power to The People…most everything America’s embedded fascist regime is not [...]

Today’s “feature” is another multi-part essay that’s been waiting in the wings for a while here in the Cannabis Chronicles newsroom. It was originally sourced online from OpEdNews.com . . .
King Hemp part 1: From DEA Deadly Birdseed, Toward Power To The People
By Rand Clifford - June 17, 2007
  America was just [...]

The rooster of the bird’s nest, Foggy, remembers smoking a fair bit of Lebanese hashish back in the late 70’s and early 80’s, so needless to say, this article brought back some fond memories.
From the Christian Science Monitor . . .
In Lebanon, a comeback for cannabis
Farmers in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley are growing more marijuana now [...]

We can’t say that we are subscribers, or even regular purchasers of High Times magazine.   We’ve picked up a copy to read at the bird’s nest from time to time, so it’s not like we’ve got any problem with it as a periodical either.  As real tea heads, we can’t say the fake bud ads are really [...]

Now, we’d like to conclude our short flurry of articles on industrial hemp and it’s potential as an agricultural product with one more collection of facts and figures. The following is essentially a “re-print” of an ABC News report by Hugh Downs that’s almost 20 years old, we believe that means it was broadcast as [...]

We initially found the following article through the good folks at CannabisEye, a group of dedicated preservationists that includes our friend Zamilito, among many others.  In researching to find the original’s source, we found a sweet little site called Green Options, a community dedicated to environmental resources, education, and discussion.
Without further ado, we’d like to present Max [...]

 Hemp production was originally prohibited in Canada in 1938 under the Opium and Narcotic Drug Act.  Although that prohibition was conveniently relaxed briefly during World War II, when alternative sources of fibres were unavailable, the prohibition was soon renewed after 1945.
After industrial hemp production was again legalized in the late 1990’s, it didn’t take long to put [...]

 We are going to take the time to make another set of arguments for Industrial Hemp. As we’ve said before, our primary purpose at the Cannabis Chronicles is not to become advocates for Industrial Hemp, however it’s not an issue we plan to totally ignore either.
In our earlier posts on the issue, we focused on [...]

Alex White Plume
Sadly, it appears that the same sovereign native peoples who, just a few short generations ago, were nearly exterminated by government action, again find themselves facing off against unsympathetic powers in Washington, D.C.
Before we finish our flurry of posts about industrial hemp, Alex White Plume, and the Lakota people, we wanted [...]

This isn’t a new story, it’s gotten it’s share of coverage over the last seven years, but with the recent release of the documentary, there seems to be a resurgence in interest in Alex White Plume’s battle to grow a crop of obvious benefit to his people.
Here are a number of other Internet references that [...]

The primary purpose of the Cannabis Chronicle is not to be focused on industrial hemp, but we have a keen interest ourselves in First Nation’s cultures and traditions, and we do believe that industrial hemp has potential to be an important crop.

We’re also aware that industrial hemp growers have seen some real difficulties in [...]