Cannabis Sativa
	Common name: Marijuana Botanical name: Cannabis Sativa Family: Cannabaceae Active chemicals: Tetrahydrocannabinol, Cannabidiol Preparations: Hashish Effects: Depressant, Intoxicant, Psychedelic, Stimulant
Cannabis has be used for medicinal purposed since 2700 B.C. when the first written record of cannabis use was made in the pharmacopoeia of Shen Nung, one of the fathers of Chinese medicine.

Articles

Consciousness

Cannabinoid Consciousness by Pete Brady
Ingesting marijuana or other entheogens is a deliberate act of consciousness evolution. Physiologically, it can accurately be described as temporary neurosurgery: using cannabis as a tool, you reach inside your head, you literally alter your mind. Let's face it, "mind-altering drug" is not a metaphorical term.

General Info

Entheobotany II by Reverend Damuzi
We would learn a hallucinogenic cure for tuberculosis and how getting high will save the world. We would discover that certain African tribes secretly use cannabis as a sacrament, and that South American shamans once stuck gourds up their asses to get high.

Growing Info

Grow Lights FAQ
The purpose of this FAQ is to help limit the spread of misinformation regarding effective artificial lighting systems, and help those who choose to grow plants under artificial lighting make an informed decision before buying a lamp.

Geurilla Farming 101 by Ganja Guru
For all you geurilla farmers out there heres a technique to live by. Unless marijuana grows all year round in your climate, the best time to put your plants in the ground is between April and July. In warm, tropical climates such as the Caribbean theres no need to worry about planting time since the temperature never drops below freezing point and never becomes extreme enough to kill the seedlings.

Literature

Aleister Crowley and the Devil's Weed by Chris Bennett
The action of hashish is as varied as life itself and seems to be determined almost entirely by the will or mood of the 'assassin,' and that within the hedges of his mental and moral form. I can get fantastic visions, or power of mind analysis, or spiritual exaltation, or sexual excitement of various kinds, or ravenous hunger, or vigor of imagination, whichever I please, absolutely at will, on a minute dose of the Parker Davis extract. This is simply because I have discovered the theory and perfected the practice of the instrument.

Medicinal Plants

Medical Marijuana - The History of Medical Marijuana
The debate rages on regarding the effectiveness and wisdom of partaking in medical marijuana. Marijuana, also called cannabis, is derived from the hemp plant. Its leaves, stems, and seeds may be smoked, vaporized into inhalable form, and made into a pill or liquid form. Its color may be green, brown or gray. Its active chemical ingredient is THC, which is short for "delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol".

Marijuana - Global Use of Medical Marijuana
Marijuana has been used as an illegal, recreational drug for many years but around the world it is also used as a health aid. Another name for medical marijuana is "Medical Cannabis". Cannabis is another name for this drug that is derived from the hemp plant.

External Links

• www.overgrow.com - Marijuana growing - cultivation articles, marijuana seeds, pictures and FAQs. Overgrow fights for the legalization of marijuana by teaching people to grow.

• www.ganja.com/

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"If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution - then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."
- Aldous Huxley