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- 641: Atlantis: We Will Never Know
- ... Europe and Asia the Athenians, on behalf of all Greeks, defeated the Atlanteans to avoid enslavement. (4) The works of Plato opened the floodgates to endless speculation on whether the continent described was fact or fiction. Atlantis has since been placed in Spain, Mongolia, Palestine, Nigeria, the Netherlands, Brazil, Sweden, Greenland and Yucatan. Every nook and cranny of the globe has been hypothesized; mountain peaks, desert lands, the ocean floor and ...
- 642: Tequila And Agave
- ... tequila. Some of the other products that are made with the sap include soap, tortilla flavoring, a chemical for stunning fish, a vitamin mixture for livestock, and a chemical to enhance the whiteness of the pulp in paper making. Agave is actually a monocot in the Sisal Family, Agavacae. There are 12 genera and 400 species that make all sorts of products from sisal hemp (rope like fiber) to medicines and ...
- 643: The Drinking Age
- ... but drinking excessively is. Another upside to this matter is that doctors are now saying that moderate alcohol intake is good for the heart. Fact: American college students drink excessively. Fact: Most drinkers are underage. Fiction: Drinking age laws prevent adolescents form drinking. The bottom line is that exposure works. Not just things like exposure and education make this issue stronger, but other incentives that would help the country more and ...
- 644: George Washington and Thomas Jefferson Grew It, Why Cant We?
- ... and newspaper chain owned by William Randolph Hurst, a relative of Harry J. Anslinger. This deal would provide Hearst with a source of really cheap paper. Better quality hemp could provide four times as much pulp per acre as trees, threatening to ruin Hearsts whole plan. Consequently, the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 was passed. The growing of hemp was eventually outlawed and those unemployed police officers now had jobs ...
- 645: The Push For Legalizing Marijuana
- ... of the Declaration of Independence (Young 25). Hemp is safer for the environment. Hemp requires 40% fewer chemicals to produce paper, and, over twenty years, one acre of hemp can produce four times as much pulp as can an acre of trees (NORML 4). The production of hemp would save trees and clean up the air. The push for legalization of Cannabis is making news across America just as it did ...
- 646: A Few Media Commandments
- ... individual right of privacy? THOU SHALL PRINT THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH What about printing the truth? Magazines like The Star and The National Enquirer are not interested in printing fact but only fiction. Headlines reading, Woman gives birth to serpent baby and Man swallowed by whale lives to tell about it. These types of stories give true journalism a bad name. Words like integrity and honesty have no ...
- 647: History and Uses of Marijuana
- ... then moved across North Africa, appeared in Latin America and the Caribbean, and finally entered the United States in the early decades of this century. Marijuana can even be used as "Biomass" fuel, where the pulp (hurd) of the hemp plant can be burned as is or processed into charcoal, methanol, methane, or gasoline. This process is called destructive distillation, or 'pyrolysis.' Fuels made out of plants like this are called ...
- 648: Abortion: Life or Death Who Chooses?
- ... killed legally in our country in 1973, many noisy and emotional people are campaigning for abortion on request. They are aided by a crusading, misguided press and media which continues to utter as fact, the fiction of fertile imaginative minds. We have been told by the media that the majority of Canadians wish to have abortion legalized but the latest census taken by the Toronto Star in March of 1989 reports ...
- 649: Why Drugs Should Be Legalized!!!!
- ... fossil fuels." The problem that Rawlings foresaw was the lack of a viable substitute for wood, for paper, and for fossil fuels. The solution? There is "such a plant that could substitute for all wood pulp, paper, all fossil fuels, would make most of our fibers naturally, would make everything from dynamite to plastic, grows in all 50 states, and that 1 acre of it would replace 4.1 acres of ...
- 650: Weed
- ... then moved across North Africa, appeared in Latin America and the Caribbean, and finally entered the United States in the early decades of this century. Marijuana can even be used as "Biomass" fuel, where the pulp (hurd) of the hemp plant can be burned as is or processed into charcoal, methanol, methane, or gasoline. This process is called destructive distillation, or 'pyrolysis.' Fuels made out of plants like this are called ...
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