A bit of History on Laws regarding Hemp - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

chilcutt · #1 05-13-2012, 10:39 AM

The International Opium Convention, Signed at the Hague, January 23 1912, was the first drug control treaty.

A revised IOC was signed at Geneva in 1925 at which time a sub-committee proposed the following text:
'The use of Indian Hemp and the preperations derived therefrom may only be authorised for medicinal and scientific purposes. The raw resin ( Charas ), however, which is extracted from the female tops of the Cannabis Sativa L, together with the various preperations ( Hashish, Chira, Esrar, Diamba ) of which it forms the basis, not being at present utilized for medicinal purposes and only being susceptible of utilisation for harmfull purposes, in the same manner as other narcotics, may not be sold, traded in, under any circumstances whatsoever'.

The provision never made it into the final treaty.

cmbdiesel · #2 05-14-2012, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by chilcutt

The International Opium Convention, Signed at the Hague, January 23 1912, was the first drug control treaty.

A revised IOC was signed at Geneva in 1925 at which time a sub-committee proposed the following text:
'The use of Indian Hemp and the preperations derived therefrom may only be authorised for medicinal and scientific purposes. The raw resin ( Charas ), however, which is extracted from the female tops of the Cannabis Sativa L, together with the various preperations ( Hashish, Chira, Esrar, Diamba ) of which it forms the basis, not being at present utilized for medicinal purposes and only being susceptible of utilisation for harmfull purposes, in the same manner as other narcotics, may not be sold, traded in, under any circumstances whatsoever'.

The provision never made it into the final treaty.

Going back to 1619 America’s first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, VA. All farmers were ordered to grow Indian hemp seed. Mandatory cultivation laws were enacted in MA in 1631, in CT in 1632, and in the Chesapeake colonies in the 1700’s.

Cannabis hemp was even used as legal tender in most of the Americas from 1631 until the early 1800’s. The reason for making it legal tender was to encourage farmers to grow more. You could then pay your taxes with cannabis hemp throughout America for over 200 years. If you did not grow hemp during periods of shortages, you could be jailed.

In fact George Washington and Thomas Jefferson used enslaved African labor to grow this crop on their plantations.

Hemp Growing Was Once the Law in the US

TwitchKitty · #3 05-15-2012, 05:56 AM

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Originally Posted by cmbdiesel

Going back to 1619 America’s first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, VA. All farmers were ordered to grow Indian hemp seed. Mandatory cultivation laws were enacted in MA in 1631, in CT in 1632, and in the Chesapeake colonies in the 1700’s.

Cannabis hemp was even used as legal tender in most of the Americas from 1631 until the early 1800’s. The reason for making it legal tender was to encourage farmers to grow more. You could then pay your taxes with cannabis hemp throughout America for over 200 years. If you did not grow hemp during periods of shortages, you could be jailed.

In fact George Washington and Thomas Jefferson used enslaved African labor to grow this crop on their plantations.

Hemp Growing Was Once the Law in the US

Never heard any of this. Fits with "free market theory", translated: hire lobbyists to outlaw any threat of competition.

JiveTurkey · #4 05-15-2012, 07:37 AM

I cringe when I see "no currently accepted medicinal value" describing Cannabis. Let's forget for just one second that it DOES have medical value... Alcoholand tobacco have no medical value yet they are still taxed and sold as a commodity.

duxthe1 · #5 05-15-2012, 02:27 PM

If one were to look they would find that there are indeed patents for cannabis derived medicines and the holders of said patents......

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is the US government.

elchivito · #6 05-15-2012, 03:30 PM

As far as I can tell, the gov't does own a patent on MJ as medicine, but specifically for it's anti-inflammatory and neuroprotective aspects only.
It's too bad agendas always get in the way. The Ron Paul type websites would have readers believe the gov't. owns ALL the patents on marijuana as medicine, which isn't true. On the other hand, the gov't. insists there's no medicinal use for weed, which also isn't true. You gotta do your homework.