Excerpt from the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission

[hozomeen]

i came across this through wiki and i couldn't find this in any post so i wanted to post part of it. i believe it comes from a 19th century document from india to britain. here's the part i thought was cool:

To forbid or even seriously to restrict the use of so gracious an herb as hemp would cause widespread suffering and annoyance and to large bands of worshipped ascetics, deep-seated anger. It would rob the people of a solace in discomfort, of a cure in sickness, of a guardian whose gracious protection saves them from the attacks of evil influences, and whose mightly power makes the devotee of the Victorious, overcoming the demons of hunger and thirst, of panic, fear, of the glamour of Maya or matter, and of madness, able in rest to brood on the Eternal, till the Eternal,possessing him body and soul, frees him from the haunting of self and receives him into the Ocean of Being. These beliefs the Musalman devotee shares to the full. Like his Hindu brother, the Musalman fakir reveres <cite>bhang</cite> as the lengthener of life, the freer from the bonds of self. <cite>Bhang</cite> brings union with the Divine spirit. "We drank <cite>bhang</cite> and the mystery I am he grew plain. So grand a result, so tiny a sin."
http://www.superluminal.com/cookbook/essay_bhang.html

for those who've never heard of it, bhang is a cannabis-laced drink that is legal in northern parts of india. i only heard of it yesterday, but i plan on trying some when i am trekking across the world in a few months and go through india. anybody tried it before?

anyway, i thought it was interesting and important to note that we are certainly not the first generations to grasp some of the greater importances of cannabis and that the prohibition and hatred of cannabis is not solely a 20th/21st century phenomenon.

[thegreenfairy]

nice find. i don't know bout it curing hunger though. lol.

[Palmer Eldritch]

oh but it does cure hunger, for a bit at least. If you smoke on an empty stomach (I mean really empty, stomach growling...) the anti-nausea effects of weed will make the feeling of hunger go away.
A bongload was my breakfast for many mornings in years past. Once lunch came around though, I was hungry as a motherfucker

[smokingjoe68]

very nice find.

[hozomeen]

Originally Posted by thegreenfairy

nice find. i don't know bout it curing hunger though. lol.

yeah, i agree with palmer. also i've noticed if i don't start munching, if i just stick with water or something, i don't really get hungry. that may just be me though.