(08-21-2010, 12:11 AM)Hempire Wrote: LOL WTF, i feel that there's pressure in restraining my WTF-I-WILLDUMP-SHITONS of facts/stories/anecdotes regarding this issue. Most of them are already scattered in this mental shit dumping site. =D

The link in my sig has lots of stuff about cannabis.

Quote:Mr. X by Carl Sagan

This account was written in 1969 for publication in Marihuana Reconsidered (1971). Sagan was in his mid-thirties at that time. He continued to use cannabis for the rest of his life.It all began about ten years ago. I had reached a considerably more relaxed period in my life – a time when I had come to feel that there was more to living than science, a time of awakening of my social consciousness and amiability, a time when I was open to new experiences. I had become friendly with a group of people who occasionally smoked cannabis, irregularly, but with evident pleasure. Initially I was unwilling to partake, but the apparent euphoria that cannabis produced and the fact that there was no physiological addiction to the plant eventually persuaded me to try. My initial experiences were entirely disappointing; there was no effect at all, and I began to entertain a variety of hypotheses about cannabis being a placebo which worked by expectation and hyperventilation rather than by chemistry. After about five or six unsuccessful attempts, however, it happened.

Quote:What is so different in the hemp seed oil compared to other oils used in cosmetics?

"Hemp seed oil is ideal for the cosmetic purposes; it contains a balanced ratio of precious unsaturated fatty acids and natural antioxidants, it is further hypoallergenic and penetrates very well to the skin, does not create only occlusive film on the top layer," explains Ivana Kostkova, MD. from the department of dermatovenerology in Prague 10. "Thanks to this property the unsaturated fatty acids and other components can penetrate in deeper layers of the skin and thus influence the cell properties directly and immediately. Hemp seed oil has, thanks to its properties, really a positive effect on the condition and function of the human skin, being able to harmonize the condition of skin cells, efficiently balance the water, lipid and pH balance of the skin and contributes also to regeneration of protective skin coat, thus increasing the overall resistance of the skin against negative external effects," adds MD Kostkova.

Quote: Rebuilding in a developing world

by Scott Blossom

In this developing world we must actively design communities that allow us to work with the environment, while utilizing the production of our building materials as an actual method of remediation and retrofitting of our current situation. By doing so, we can continue to grow at a rate that is sufficient to keep the economy strong, as well as allow our environment enough time to regenerate, even as we harvest agricultural resources that will replace synthetic materials. By using renewable materials that alleviate the need to extract those of which have taken years to form, we can release the many levels of pressure on the earth, before forces of nature release themselves. With this goal in mind, we are guided to design solutions that utilize renewable resources such as the industrial hemp plant.