Marijuana Mythbusters - Seattle Hempfest 2008 (1 of 6)

Doug McVay, David Guard, Chris Conrad, Ngaio Bealum, Mason Tvert, Dominic Corva

Seattle Hempfest 2008
http://hempfest.org/

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Seattle
• Hempfest
• 2008
• Marijuana
• Mythbusters

[saiyoice]

Deaths per year resulting from alcohol: 100,000

· Deaths per year resulting from tobacco: 430,000

· Deaths per year resulting from aspirin: 180- 1000

· Deaths per year resulting from legal drugs: 106,000

· Deaths that have ever occurred in direct result of Cannabis: 0

[buttonsputon]

VOTE HEMP alongside MEDICINAL cannabis use for health liberty and economy!

farmers and patients unite with understanding citizens.

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[paranoid492]

@teasnax good shit man standing up for yourself is mentally rewarding

[darktreason]

thats a cool water bottle! Anyway I 'd like to add that I get perinoid when I see cops LMAO.

[h4x0rman1]

Make it legal and say bye bye paranoia.

[teasnax]

@baragon69 ~ a) thanks for showing me what i've already read and b) you still aren't winning with me. i'm just not saying more because you are set in what you saw and you will just waste my time going in circles. good day.

[baragon69]

@teasnax terms for one of the chief natural medicines, 'cannabis,' and for the premiere industrial resource, 'hemp,' had been pushed out of the language."

[baragon69]

@teasnax According to Jack Herer, William Randolph Hearst, "through pervasive and repetitive use, pounded the obscure Mexican slang word 'marijuana' into the English-speaking American consciousness. Meanwhile, the word 'hemp' was discarded and 'cannabis,' the scientific term, was ignored and buried. The actual Spanish word for hemp is “cáñamo.” But using a Mexican “Sonoran” colloquialism – marijuana, often Anglicized as “marihuana” – guaranteed that few would realize that the proper

[baragon69]

@teasnax "Well excuse me". And fyi, I didn't get that info on the web. I found it in a book on learning the Spanish language. The writers had gotten it wrong. It's a slang term for cannabis in Mexico, just like weed is a slang for it here in the states.

[teasnax]

@MrIMONFIRE ~ you don't need to tell ME;^) it just won't be full on indica/afghanica unless i'm trying to go to sleep or kill some pain. for pussy's sake....

[teasnax]

@baragon69 ~ @baragon69 ~ i second JesseISAwesomeO. no where in any Spanish-speaking country will you hear "marijuana." the only real Spanish word i've seen for cannabis L. is canamo [with an enye over the n]. get your shit straight and don't contribute to the web of misinformation out there....