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Zeitgeist (pronounced De-zeitgeist.ogg) is a German language expression literally translated: Zeit, time; Geist, spirit, meaning “the spirit of the age and its society”. The word zeitgeist describes the intellectual, cultural, ethical and political climate, ambiance and morals of an era or also a trend.
The blog called “The Hill’s Congress Blog” – Where lawmakers come to blog, published an excellent article yesterday, see: America’s New Marijuana Zeitgeist in which they blog the TIME magazine story “Why Legalizing Marijuana Makes Sense” by Joe Klein but add to that three very succinct points, as to why this topic is getting so much attention.

American’s support for marijuana law reform is fast approaching a tipping point — a scenario made all that more remarkable when one considers that the federal government has spent nearly seven decades propagandizing against it. Mainstream America is coming to terms with marijuana, and growing more and more dissatisfied with our nation’s failing pot policies. Writes Klein: “Obviously, marijuana can be abused. But the costs of criminalization have proved to be enormous, perhaps unsustainable. Would legalization be any worse?”

He’s no longer the only one asking.

by Doug Yurchey – originally published on The Truth Seeker

And I will raise up for them a plant of renown, and they shall be no more consumed with hunger in the land. – Ezekiel 34/29

Where did the word ‘marijuana’ come from? In the mid 1930s, the M-word was created to tarnish the good image and phenomenal history of the hemp plant…as you will read. The facts cited here, with references, are generally verifiable in the Encyclopaedia Britannica which was printed on hemp paper for 150 years:
* All schoolbooks were made from hemp or flax paper until the 1880s; Hemp Paper Reconsidered, Jack Frazier, 1974.
* It was LEGAL TO PAY TAXES WITH HEMP in America from 1631 until the early 1800s; LA Times, Aug. 12, 1981.
* REFUSING TO GROW HEMP in America during the 17th and 18th Centuries WAS AGAINST THE LAW! You could be jailed in Virginia for refusing to grow hemp from 1763 to 1769; Hemp in Colonial Virginia, G. M. Herdon.

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• Archaeologists have reported that marijuana was one of the first plants cultivated by humans. It was being used 10,000 years ago for linen, paper, and garments. In China and India, it was being smoked as early as 2700 BC.
• The Ancient Greek historian Herodotus mentions that Scythian tribes used to pile cannabis leaves on to bonfires during wild festivals.
• George Washington, the first US president, grew cannabis, declaring “Make the most you can of the Indian Hemp seed and sow it everywhere.”
• In Vietnam, where cannabis grows wild and free, people rarely smoke it themselves. Instead they feed it to their pigs, who get the serious munchies. The result is that the farmers produce some very fat, and very chilled out, pigs.

Like fine wine, growing medicinal weed has become so specialized as to inspire tastings and a new vocabulary

You have to love the San Francisco Chronicle for publishing such an informative and revealing article about the true state of Cannabis Cultivation. Here’s another excerpt.

“from its origination in the foothills of the Himalayas to making its way on caravan routes in Asia and the Middle East and then to Europe and America. There, laws prohibiting marijuana cultivation are what pushed growers to become more skilled as they moved underground. The laws actually inadvertently promoted a breeding program exceeded by no commercial plant”

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