cannabisnews.com: 10 Things You Never Knew About Dope! 10 Things You Never Knew About Dope! Posted by FoM on August 17, 1999 at 13:58:46 PT Source: Yahoo UK & Ireland THE myth of "reefer madness" and "the killer weed" arises from murder trials in the US in the 40s. Lawyers used a "not guilty because of marijuana insanity" defence to save clients from the death penalty. Criminals who import low-grade Moroccan hashish routinely mix it with bitumen used to surface roads. One in five adults in Britain less than 60 has smoked a joint. The figure is two in five for those in their early twenties. "Prosperous professionals" are most likely to use the drug and carry on the habit into their thirties. The cannabis market in Britain is claimed by some observers to be worth more than the coffee, chocolate or cinema and video industries combined. Wine and cannabis grow well together. Santa Cruz, in California, is a top wine region and skunk marijuana was first bred there. Cellar hands there make a marijuana-infused wine. In Switzerland, it is legal to buy marijuana in aromatherapy pillows, as long as you don't cut them open for smoking. On value, marijuana is the biggest single farm crop in Alaska, California, Kentucky, Rhode Island and Virginia and the fourth-biggest in the whole of the US. It used to be against the law for farmers in England not to plant hemp as it was used to supply the Navy with sails and ropes, hence place names like Hampstead and Hemel Hempstead. The word canvas comes from cannabis. THC, the chemical that makes a user stoned, is a powerful anti- oxidant which may limit and even reverse brain damage after a stroke. There are 60,000 people in jail worldwide on marijuana charges. Of 700,000 arrests last year, 87 per cent were for possession rather than dealing or growing. Sunday August 15, 10:42 PM Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #5 posted by Adam on September 08, 2001 at 23:24:45 PT: Marijuana browies Dude, I have the perfect way to make the "special brownies," as a matter of fact...I just did it reacently...about two hours. what u need to do is you need to use like a quarter per person... u get all the stems,and beans out of it.. of course.. then what u do is you throw it in some vegatable oil... then put it on the stove...and you wait for it to boil...what it is doing, is getting the thc into the oil..then what u do is u just cyphen out the weed from the oil, once the weed has turned black... u just mix it in w/ the regular brownie mix, and bake away....try it...its DA BOMB!!!!!!!! [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by Andrew on May 19, 2001 at 05:02:46 PT: Cooking with weed !!! spacecake ingredients: pot,chocolate, orange juce and zest of one orange, about 2-4 tbspnscocoa powder 1-2 eggs about 8 ozs flour, about 4 ozs sugar , about 4 ozs butter directions: melt the chocolate in a bowl over hot water squeeze the orange and scrape off the zest. Mix the sugar with the butter than the eggs a little at the time. Add the cocoa powder and the orange juice. Then carefully fold in the flour. Now take a little butter and melt it in a saucepan or in a microwave add pot to the butter and stir until the fat absorbs the pot then add to the mixture and stir in. put the mixture in baking tray and place in oven gas mark 5about 300 degrees and cook for about 30 mins, or until cooked. [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by Rob Klees on January 30, 2001 at 22:47:15 PT: POT Brownies HEY I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO MAKE POT BROWNIES, TELL ME!!!I NEED TO KNOW SO E-MAIL ME! [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by Chuck Johnson on January 30, 2001 at 22:40:39 PT: POT SMOKE WEED EVERYDAY [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by JIMMY on April 04, 2000 at 09:05:52 PT: GROWING GOT ANY INFO ON GROWING OUTDOORS IN ENGLAND??? [ Post Comment ] Post Comment Name: Optional Password: E-Mail: Subject: Comment: [Please refrain from using profanity in your message] Link URL: Link Title: