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GEORGE WASHINGTON
George Washington and his slaves grew hemp at his Mt. Vernon home in Virginia. "Father of the U.S.A., first President, Revolutionary War General, and hemp farmer, Washington said: "Make the most of the Indian hemp seed, sow it everywhere." I couldn't have said it better!
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The forth U.S.A. President, Statesman, author of the Declaration of Independence, hemp farmer, and slave owner, Jefferson said: "THE GREATEST SERVICE WHICH CAN BE RENDERED ANY COUNTRY IS TO ADD A USEFUL PLANT TO ITS CULTURE."
Article by Diane Ackerman, PARADE MAGAZINE, July 15, 2001. "Gardening is a favorite activity in more than 50 million American households, but for THOMAS JEFFERSON -who, in his spare time, was President -it was an all consuming passion...As a slaveholder, he had an almost endless supply of labor for the task."
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER
George Washington Carver was the greatest agricultural researcher in American history. He showed you could make almost anything from farm products and agricultural waste. Carver developed hundreds of products out of the peanut. Henry Ford was a friend and used Carver's ideas in building his early Ford cars.
LYSTER H. DEWEY
Dewey was a botanist with the Bureau of Plant Industry, U.S. Department of Agriculture. He wrote articles on hemp for the U.S.D.A. Yearbooks (see U.S.D.A. Yearbook, 1901, p.540-554. Dewey also testified for the hemp plant at the hearings of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937.
MARY JANE "BROWNIE MARY" RATHBUN (1925-1999)
Brownie Mary Rathbun made marijuana brownies to give to AIDS patients. She was recognized in San Francisco, in 1992, for her years of service at the AIDS ward of San Francisco General Hospital, by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, who declared a "Brownie Mary Day." Shortly after Brownie Mary was arrested in Sonoma County, in the kitchen of a friend doing what she did so well. Baking. She was in possession of 2.5 pounds of marijuana leaf. She testified before many governmental bodies in an attempt to legalize the medicine she knew worked and was safe.
RE
Brownie Mary Rathbun
LETTER SUBMITTED TO THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
APRIL 18, 1999.
Now that marijuana is legal for medical use in California, one of my favorite hero's in the struggle to accomplish that will always be Brownie Mary Rathbun. As a colleague in the movement, I mourn her passing and celebrate her compassion and courage in the face of incredible odds. What a woman!
Richard M. Davis,
Curator U.S.A. Hemp Museum
BOB MARLEY (1945 - 1981)
"Why people drink is they want feeling I get when I smoke herb. Everybody need to get high but some people getting high with the wrong things." - BOB MARLEY: IN HIS OWN WORDS. By Ian McCann, 1993.
PETER McWILLIAMS (1950 - 2000)
Peter McWilliams, best selling author, was an advocate and activist for the medical use of marijuana. He was arrested on a federal charge of conspiring to manufacture and sell marijuana, and denied the use of marijuana for his personal battle with AIDS, by the federal government. He died while awaiting sentencing in the court of Judge George H. King, who denied his defense. All this was after the passage of Proposition 215 by the people of California.
DONALD SCOTT (? - 1993)
The legal nightmare of hemp prohibition went on long enough to cause the home invasion murder of Donald Scott. No drugs were present. The various police agencies had already divided up Scott's 4 million dollar property on paper. These tactics over a relatively harmless plant are an outrage. The government will only be stopped with re-legalization of hemp, all hemp.
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