Essays Tagged: "Hemp"

Marijuana

Wether you call it Hemp, Mary Jane, Pot, Weed; it doesn't matter. It is still Cannabis Sativa, or cannabis for short. A ... 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 proc ...

(3 pages) 101 1 3.8 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Marijuana

cultivation of themarijuana plant began as far back as theJamestown settlers, around 1611, who used hempproduced from the marijuana plant's fibers to makerope and canvas. It was also used in making cl ... ssed the border seekingjobs duringthe Depression. The specific reason givenfor the outlawing of the hemp plant was it'ssupposed violent 'effect on the degenerate races'(Schaffer, pg. 86).Beginning in ...

(2 pages) 90 0 5.0 Feb/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Legalization of Marijuana (Anti)

y from marijuana in turning you against this dangerous drug.Many supporters of marijuana claim that hemp can be a very resourceful plant. Hemp is considered to contain less than one percent tetrahydro ... percent tetrahydrocannabinols (THC) (Pluff 1). THC is the psychoactive chemical found in marijuana. Hemp can be confused with marijuana and considered the same, but do not let this fool you. Marijuana ...

(5 pages) 245 0 4.3 Dec/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Effects Of Pot

on humans. Marijuana, or cannabis sativa, is apreparation of the crushed flowers and buds of female hempGood Paper. 4 pages long B+plant. The existence of the plant has been reported asearly as 1500-1 ...

(5 pages) 84 0 3.8 Nov/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Hemp

Hemp : A Help or a Hindrance?Hemp, also known as Cannabis sativa, marijuana, grass, and by many othe ... l crop in the United States for almost sixty years. As common two centuries ago as cotton is today, hemp is not seen on the market. As many groups fight for hemp to become legalized as a drug, many pe ... ed for its industrial and medical uses. From Disney Indiana Jones hats to fuel for our automobiles, hemp is a hardworking, environmentally sound renewable resource. People have become so wrapped up in ...

(9 pages) 91 0 4.3 May/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Legaliize marijuana

n of the population is committed to using drugs. (Inciardi and McBride 260)Marijuana comes from the hemp plant, which can readily be grown on fields across the nation and was cultivated heavily in col ... ve that it will benefit society in three ways, including revenue enhancement, medical benefits, and hemp production. The ingest argument for marijuana legalization is revenue enhancement for the U.S. ...

(10 pages) 545 1 4.6 Apr/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Chronic Swamp Murders.

One day while Joe and Jill Hemp were walking through Chronic swamp they cameacross a trail of blood in the water. They followed ... you finda dead hunter just lying in the middle of a swamp? Even with these questions police toldthe Hemps that it was an accident and they were in no danger.The Hemp's life went on with no interruptio ... of a struggle so the investigators said that it was some type offreak accident. They also told the Hemps to stay out of the swamp.The Hemps never went back into the swamp again, but one night they we ...

(2 pages) 30 0 2.3 Jan/1997

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Hemp

The wonders of hemp. none received yetPREAMBLEAs we enter a new millennium, we find ourselves reevaluating the path ... law, sociology, the corporate agenda and conspiracy theories. Since the early part of the century, hemp has been considered a drug, though it has no euphoric attributes. Hemp: the wonder plant and po ... ulk of our problems is illegal only because it is seen as guilty by it's association with marijuana.Hemp is a herbaceous plant called 'cannabis sativa', which means `useful (sativa) hemp (cannabis)'. ...

(8 pages) 85 0 4.0 Mar/1997

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

This was a creative editorial about Why Hemp should ne leagalized in America.

Hemp came to America on the Mayflower-woven into the ship's sails and rigging. It covered Conestoga ... ched it into that famous flag, and Levi Strauss sewed it into the first pair of gold miner's jeans. Hemp was a cash crop for rope, twine, canvas and cellulose in the United States until 1937, when it ... e time for the comeback of the world most versatile and oldest cultivated fiber plant in the world. Hemp can be used for body care (such as cosmetics, shampoo, etc.), foods and beverages, building mat ...

(2 pages) 69 2 4.8 Jan/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science

An explanation of the major problems the United States faced in 1789, how they were overcome by 1800, and at what cost.

erate more business many of the Chesapeake tobacco growers switched to wheat and others expanded to hemp, but this had little effect on the entire region. In the mid-Atlantic there was a high demand f ...

(3 pages) 42 0 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

This essay about marijuana.

ltivation of the marijuana plant began as far back as the Jamestown settlers, around 1611, who used hemp produced from the marijuana plant's fibers to make rope and canvas. It was also used in making ... ed the border seekingjobs during the Depression. The specific reason given for the outlawing of the hemp plant was it's supposed violent "effect on the degenerate races" (Schaffer, pg. 86). Beginning ...

(3 pages) 57 0 4.3 Dec/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

What made the English settlers who came to the New World (America) make the transition from Englishmen abroad to Americans, and what made them come together in the end for a Revolution?

n by increasing their control over colonial affairs. Parliament added articles such as fur, copper, hemp, tar and turpentine to the list of items produced in the colonies that had to be shipped to Eng ...

(3 pages) 40 1 5.0 Dec/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Paper for my health class assessing the use of medical marijuana. I received an A on this paper. My sources are listed at the end.

juana is scientifically known as cannabis sativa. It goes by the aliases of Pot, Dope, Grass, Weed, Hemp, Chronic, Reefer, and many other street names. Marijuana that people smoke or eat comes from th ...

(6 pages) 160 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Should it be legal?

long time. It has been around since the days of colonial America when Washington and Jefferson grew hemp. It wasn't until the 1930's that the government really became interested in this very questiona ...

(4 pages) 223 7 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Marijuana Legally Introduced To Society

re marijuana was banned by the marijuana tax act of 1937, new technologies were developed that made hemp a potential competitor with the timber industry and the newly founded synthetic fiber and plast ... February 1938 issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine explaining how a newly invented machine can turn hemp into valuable materials. One quote from the article says that the 77% cellulose from hemp,"can ...

(2 pages) 55 3 3.3 May/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Anti-Marijuana Propaganda

h of a gram of THC is enough to make you high. Hashish is an extract from the THC-rich resin of the hemp or marijuana plant. Hashish oil has the highest concentration of THC. One to two drops equal on ...

(2 pages) 48 0 3.9 Jul/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Persuasive Writing

Persuasive speach on why marijuana should be legalized

use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. This "medicine" also known as pot, weed, bud, herb, ganja, hemp and grass, would suppress the nausea and make you feel much better and make you eat. This is on ...

(4 pages) 71 1 4.8 Dec/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

"How The 13th and 14th Amendments Changed American Society."

ith agricultural economies, relied on the slavery system to ensure the cash crops, such as; cotton, hemp, rice, and tobacco. Slaves were not unknown in the North, but abolition in the North was comple ...

(2 pages) 51 0 3.8 May/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

Marijuana and its uses throughout history

fects, yet it was not widely employed for its psychoactive properties; instead it was cultivated as hemp and for the manufacture of rope and fabric.It wasn't long before the uses of marijuana spread a ... ore the uses of marijuana spread across Asia and into Europe. The Greeks along with the Romans used hemp for making clothing and sails for there ships. Not yet discovering marijuana's intoxicating eff ...

(2 pages) 20 0 0.0 Mar/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Legalization Of Marjiuana: The Facts: Speech

Hemp was the primary crop grown by George Washington at Mount Vernon, and a secondary crop grown by ... he was acquainted with both the Hearsts Newspapers and the DuPonts, of DuPont plastic fame because hemp seed oil derivatives could of replaced DuPont's petroleum derived compoundsAnslinger's Testimon ...

(5 pages) 34 2 2.2 Sep/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol