Posted by Sigismund on March 13, 2009, at 21:07:00
In reply to Re: In Defense of Cannabis » sukarno, posted by Larry Hoover on March 13, 2009, at 17:53:06
Some things from memory which may interest you.
"One River" is a great book about Richard Schultz, a Harvard ethnobotanist who explored the Amazon basin looking for psychoactive plants and the ways they were used by the indigenous peoples.
He was so reactionary that he refused to recognise the results of the American War of Independence, and voted for Queen Elizabeth for president in the presidential elections. When he was asked if he wanted to see the Manaus Opera House he refused, saying it was built with the blood of Indians.
Anyway, he was a major authority on cannabis, and during the 60s made himself available free of charge as an expert witness in cases of possession. His evidence was that it was impossible to determine if the sample involved came from cannabis sativa, and since he was the world expert, it worked, at least for a bit.
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