In 1938 the word ‘marijuana’ was introduced to Australia by Harry Anslinger and the US Bureau of Narcotics as ‘a new drug that maddens victims’. Marijuana was said to come from the plant Cannabis sativa, which was said to be 20 times more potent than Cannabis indica, the source of hashish, “well-known for its violently sex-stimulating effects.” It was sensationally described as an ‘evil sex drug’ that caused its devotees to be satisfied with only the most appalling of perversions. By the 1970s, prohibitionists were arguing the complete opposite. Now they claimed there was conclusive evidence that smoking marihuana caused “genetic imbalance” effeminising young men, causing them to grow long hair and become impotent. The third Age of Reefer Madness began in the 1990s with a scare campaign about cannabis causing schizophrenia. That decade saw the start of a moral panic about “skunk”, a new kind of cannabis said to be thirty times stronger than earlier cannabis, which sent people mad. This “Reefer Madness II” had many similarities to Anslinger’s “Reefer Madness” of the 1930s, including the claim that there was a new kind of cannabis that was many times stronger than previous forms of cannabis.

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Hemp seed as a human food Hemp is one of humanity’s oldest cultivated plants, with evidence of use reaching back into prehistory. In the older non-Christian religions Hemp and its products were venerated as unique gifts provided for human use. The last century has witnessed an unprecedented interference in the natural order by the avaricious activities of agricultural and pharmaceutical corporations. Natural products everywhere have been replaced by petrochemical derived synthetics including fibre for fabric, building materials and food.

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