Introduction

• “Intro” video
• “Hemp Hemp Hooray” video
• “Jack Rap” video
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Preface
• Foreword
• Prologue
• Copyright Info
• Editor’s Note 1995
• Editor’s Note 93/94
• Editor’s Notes 1992
• Editor’s Notes 1991
• Author’s Preface
• Producer’s Preface
• Programmer’s Preface
• Art Director’s Preface
• Instructions

  Chapter 1 Overview of the History of Cannabis Hemp

• Explanatory Notes
• Cannabis Hemp
• What’s in a Name?
• American Historical Notes
• World Historical Notes
• Great Wars Were Fought
• Why is Hemp So Important?
• Footnotes
• Peasants harvesting hemp

  Chapter 2 Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp

• Ships & Sailors
• Textiles & Fabrics
• Paper
• Rope, Twine, & Cordage
• Art Canvas
• Paints & Varnish
• Lighting Oil
• Biomass Energy
• Medicine
• Food Protein
• Building Materials & Housing
• Smoking, Leisure, & Creativity
• Economic Stability, Profitability, & Free Trade
• Plant Diagram
• The Challenge
• Footnotes
• When Hemp Saved Bush
• Ship Rigging
• The Greenhouse Effect and the Bureaucrat
• G.W. Schlichten and the Decordicator

  Chapter 3 New Billion Dollar Crop

• Popular mechanics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Kentucky Hemp Fields
• The Many Uses of Hemp

  Chapter 4 The Last Days of Legal Cannabis

• Breakthrough in Papermaking
• A Plan to Save Our Forests
• Conservation & Source Reduction
• “Social Reorganization”
• Hearst’s Disinformation
• Bigotry & Apartheid
• Marijuana Tax
• “Did Anyone Ask the A.M.A.?”
• Others Spoke Out
• Protecting Special Interests
• Self Perpetuating Lies
• Bulletin 404
• Man-Made Fiber
• Roundup of Headlines

  Chapter 5 Marijuana Prohibition

• Crushing Dissent
• Pot & Threat of Peace
• A Program of Control
• Criminal Misconduct
• The Bush/Quayle/Lilly Pharmaceutical Sell Out

  Chapter 6 Medical Literature on Cannabis Medicine

• Affordable Health Care
• 19th Century
• 20th Century
• Popular Acceptance
• Asilomar Conference
• Research Banned
• DEA Judge Rules in Favor of Medical Marijuana
• Pharmaceutical Companies
• Fox & Chicken Coop
• Undermining the Natural Competition
• Poisoning the Third World
• Rewriting History
• They Call it CRAP

  Chapter 7 Therapeutic Use of Cannabis

• Asthma
• Glaucoma
• Tumors
• Nausea/Cancer Chemotherapy
• Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Back Pain & Spasms
• Antibiotics & Antibacterial CBDs
• Herpes, Cystic Fibrosis, Arthritis & Rheumatism
• Expectorant
• Sleep & Relaxation
• Emphysema
• Stress, Migraines
• Appetite
• Salivation
• AIDS, Depression, Etc.
• Acceptable Risks
• One Man’s Determination
• Compassionate Cannabis & Cruel Cops
• Merck Manual
• War on Drugs

  Chapter 8 Hempseed as the Basic World Food

• Humanity’s Best Single Food Source
• Spectre of World Wide Famine
• Fundamental Link in the Food Chain
• Hemp Seed Nutrition

  Chapter 9 Economics: Energy, Environment, & Commerce

• Energy & Economy
• Clean Renewable Fuel
• Biomass for Energy Abundance
• Family Farms or Fossil Fuels
• What’s the Catch
• Energy Security
• Free Enterprise, High Profit
• Change in High Fashion
• Sturdy Paper Products
• Biodegradable Replacement for Plastic
• Spin Off Trades & Taxes
• Green Economy
• Land & Soil Reclamation
• Natural Guard
• Henry Ford’s Biomass Car
• World War II

“Hemp for Victory” movie

  Chapter 10 Myth, Magic, & Medicine

• What’s in a Name (2)
• First Known Marijuana Users
• 2,300-1,000 B.C.E.
• Hemp & Scythe
• Thread of Civilization
• Hemp to Enforce Law
• Cannabis Herbal Medicine
• Mystic Philosophers
• Natural Mind
• Cloaked in Secrecy
• Judaic Line
• What the Bible Says
• Early Christianity
• Holy Roman Empire
• Church/State Aristocracy
• Politics of Paper
• Cannabis Medicines Banned
• Legal Medieval Medicines
• Contradictions
• Yet Hemp Endured
• Age of Enlightenment
• Economic Model of Forfeiture Laws
• Jefferson’s Comparison to Tobacco

  Chapter 11 The (Hemp) War of 1812, Napoleon & Russia

• The untold story of hemp’s role in an important era of history
• From 1740 to 1815

  Chapter 12 Cannabis Drug Use in 19th Century America

• Marijuana Medicine
• Literary Inspiration
• Hashish Candy
• Turkish Smoking Parlors
• American as Apple Pie
• The Smear

  Chapter 13 Prejudice: Marijuana and Jim Crow Laws

• Smoking in America
• Blackface
• All That Jazz
• Mexican Americans
• South Africa
• Remnants
• Anslinger’s Hatred of Jazz

  Chapter 14 More than Sixty Years of Suppression

• Factories, the Navy
• Privacy is a Right
• Urine Testing
• Babe Ruth
• piding Families
• Surveillance & Seizures
• UnAmerican Policies
• Police, Secrets, & Blackmail
• Public Humiliation
• Feudal Law
• Entrapment, Intolerance, Ignorance
• PDFA
• DARE
• Media’s Stupor
• Ongoing Injustice
• LaRouche Against Rock
• Paul McCartney/Band on the Run
• Ultimate Hypocrisy

  Chapter 15 The Official Story: Debunking “Gutter Science”

• Wasting Time & Lives
• Doublespeak
• Brain Damage Reports
• Lingering Effects
• Lung Damage Reports
• Radioactivity in Tobacco
• Nahas’ Studies
• & So On
• Alcohol
• Studies the Feds Don’t Talk About
• Coptic Study
• Jamaican Studies
• Costa Rican Study
• Amsterdam Model
• Bush Strikes Again
• Corruption/Carlton Turner

  Chapter 16 The Emperor’s New Clothes

• The Parable
• Logical Analogy
• Smithsonian’s Suppression of Facts
• Truth & Consequences of Prohibition
• High-Tech Repression
• Wasting Our Tax Money
• Double Standards
• Policies of Ignorance
• What is the Law?
• Conclusion
• What Justice Demands
• What You Can Do

  Bibliography Recommended Reading

• Bibliography: Recommended Reading

  Appendix Original Sources

• Appendix Source Materials

• Appendix: Documentation
• Appendix — Cultural
• Voices for Legalization
• Controlled Substance and the Tarbaby
• Appendix— Environmental
• Response to Ed Rosenthal’s “Hemp Realities”
• Energy Farming
• Appendix — Industrial
• Hemp Products
• Appendix — Medicinal
• How dangerous is marijuana?
• Appendix — Historical
• Reefer Madness Propaganda Through the Ages
• Appendix — Legal
• Seizure & Forfeiture Laws

 Initiatives

• text of California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative
• text of Proposition 215 (Compassionate Use Initiative of 1996)

  Bonus Section

• starting a college hemp club
• Brawley research report
• Arizona stamp tax case
• proposed industrial hemp law
• how to open a hemp store
• Woody Harrelson arrested