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- 1461: Hemp: The Truth About the Earth's Greatest Plant
- ... violence, another complete falsehood. Hemp is the plant scientifically known as cannabis sativa. It is referred to as hemp when it is grown for its fibers, stem, and seeds. Its leaves and flowers produce the drugs marijuana and hashish. However, sterile breeds of the plant are still illegal to grow in the U.S. Literally millions of wild hemp plants grow throughout the entire Midwest today. Wild hemp, like hemp used ...
- 1462: "Biodiversity"
- ... wide arrange of pharmaceuticals such as aspirin and penicillin. "Some 40 percent of U.S. prescriptions are for pharmaceuticals derived from wild plants, animals and microorganisms.(E.O. Wilson)" They also provide fruit, oils, beverages, drugs (including illegal narcotics), fuel, and much more. Humans also benefit from biodiversity from what E.O. Wilson calls "biophillia," which is the natural affiliation humans have for natural environments.(E.O. Wilson) Old growth forests ...
- 1463: What is A Plant?
- ... reasons, not just for food. We make furniture and shelters out of wood, and we make clothes out of cotton. Plants provide us with paper. Paper can be dated back to 105 AD in China. Drugs made from plants are essential to some people's health and if those plants were not in existence, it could mean a huge difference in our world. Fossil fuels would not be here if there ...
- 1464: Mescaline
- ... in these fields, providing relief of severe pain brought on by these conditions. Research tentatively continues, however the results of these treatments are clouded by many social and political issues involving the laws of scheduled drugs and the fear of addiction of the users. Its research usage and findings have followed a similar course to that of LSD, a similar hallucinogen and has been limited since it was classified as a ...
- 1465: Plants
- ... water and minerals through their vascular systems to elevations of more than 100 m (more than 330 ft). Only a tiny percentage of plant species are directly used by humans for food, shelter, fiber, and drugs. At the head of the list are rice, wheat, corn, legumes, cotton, conifers, and tobacco, on which whole economies and nations depend. Of even greater importance to humans are the indirect benefits reaped from the ...
- 1466: An Argument For Animal Research
- ... release tension or evil spirits. In the last one hundred years, for the sake of humanity, numerous vaccinations have been developed, disease and disorders of all types have been prevented, surgical techniques have been advanced, drugs have been developed to cure ailments and the list continues endlessly. The progress that has been achieved in knowledge as well as safety in medical practice is correlated directly to animal research. It is one ...
- 1467: Greek Orthodox Customs
- ... But these are my roots. This is my home now and forever. I miss everyone, my aunts, and even my husband. I told my own daughters, "Unless you choose a man who drinks or does drugs or who's a criminal, I will stay out of it. It's your life. I'm not he one who will sleep with him."
- 1468: Taoism
- ... achieved if the person has done what he is supposed to. At this time immortality was thought of as only physical (body and soul, not just soul). The elixir of immortality was made up of drugs and herbs. These things are said to have assisted the elixir cinnabar, gold, silver, and varieties of a plant called chih, jade and pearl. Each master (magician) had a different recipe for the elixir. Immortality ...
- 1469: Buddha
- ... to be able to gain salvation in the next life. Buddha’s Five Precepts: 1. Do not kill 2. Do not steal 3. Do not lie 4. Do not be unchaste 5. Do not take drugs or drink intoxicants. The Buddha began attracting followers from all over India. Stories of his deeds began to spread even throughout other nations. The pupils of Buddhism were called monks and later nuns too and ...
- 1470: Sexual Urges, Society, and Religion
- ... the "pill" ready for use and a growing movement of free love, a radical shift in the revolution was about to take place. The sixties will always be remembered as the hippie era of sex, drugs and rock ‘n' roll. Women were educated, independent and now chemically shielded from pregnancy. With the expansion of the university and college systems during the 1960's, a greater proportion of young people continued their ...
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