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Der Kaiser Trägt Keine Kleidung Elftes Ausgabe

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Chapters

Table of Contents follows the chapter buttons below.

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Overview of the History of Cannabis Hemp

Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp

New Billion Dollar Crop

The Last Days of Legal Cannabis

Marijuana Prohibition

Medical Literature on Cannabis Medicine

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Therapeutic Use of Cannabis

Hempseed as the Basic World Food

Economics: Energy, Environment, & Commerce

Myth, Magic, & Medicine

The (Hemp) War of 1812, Napoleon & Russia

Cannabis Drug Use in 19th Century America

Prejudice: Marijuana and Jim Crow Laws

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Appendix

Initiatives

Bibliography

Bonus Section

More than Sixty Years of Suppression

The Official Story: Debunking “Gutter Science”

The Emperor’s New Clothes

Original Sources

Recommended Reading

Table of Contents

 Introduction

• “Intro” video
• “Hemp Hemp Hooray” video
• “Jack Rap” video
• Dedication
• Introduction
• Preface
• Foreword
• Prologue
• Copyright Info
• Editor’s Note 1995
• Editor’s Note 93/94
• Editor’s Notes 1992
• Editor’s Notes 1991
• Author’s Preface
• Producer’s Preface
• Programmer’s Preface
• Art Director’s Preface
• Instructions

 Chapter 1: Overview of the History of Cannabis Hemp

• Explanatory Notes
• Cannabis Hemp
• What’s in a Name?
• American Historical Notes
• World Historical Notes
• Great Wars Were Fought
• Why is Hemp So Important?
• Footnotes
• Peasants harvesting hemp

 Chapter 2: Brief Summary of the Uses of Hemp

• Ships & Sailors
• Textiles & Fabrics
• Paper
• Rope, Twine, & Cordage
• Art Canvas
• Paints & Varnish
• Lighting Oil
• Biomass Energy
• Medicine
• Food Protein
• Building Materials & Housing
• Smoking, Leisure, & Creativity
• Economic Stability, Profitability, & Free Trade
• Plant Diagram
• The Challenge
• Footnotes
• When Hemp Saved Bush
• Ship Rigging
• The Greenhouse Effect and the Bureaucrat
• G.W. Schlichten and the Decordicator

 Chapter 3: New Billion Dollar Crop

• Popular mechanics
• Mechanical Engineering
• Kentucky Hemp Fields
• The Many Uses of Hemp

 Chapter 4: The Last Days of Legal Cannabis

• Breakthrough in Papermaking
• A Plan to Save Our Forests
• Conservation & Source Reduction
• “Social Reorganization”
• Hearst’s Disinformation
• Bigotry & Apartheid
• Marijuana Tax
• “Did Anyone Ask the A.M.A.?”
• Others Spoke Out
• Protecting Special Interests
• Self Perpetuating Lies
• Bulletin 404
• Man-Made Fiber
• Roundup of Headlines

 Chapter 5: Marijuana Prohibition

• Crushing Dissent
• Pot & Threat of Peace
• A Program of Control
• Criminal Misconduct
• The Bush/Quayle/Lilly Pharmaceutical Sell Out

 Chapter 6: Medical Literature on Cannabis Medicine

• Affordable Health Care
• 19th Century
• 20th Century
• Popular Acceptance
• Asilomar Conference
• Research Banned
• DEA Judge Rules in Favor of Medical Marijuana
• Pharmaceutical Companies
• Fox & Chicken Coop
• Undermining the Natural Competition
• Poisoning the Third World
• Rewriting History
• They Call it CRAP

 Chapter 7: Therapeutic Use of Cannabis

• Asthma
• Glaucoma
• Tumors
• Nausea/Cancer Chemotherapy
• Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Back Pain & Spasms
• Antibiotics & Antibacterial CBDs
• Herpes, Cystic Fibrosis, Arthritis & Rheumatism
• Expectorant
• Sleep & Relaxation
• Emphysema
• Stress, Migraines
• Appetite
• Salivation
• AIDS, Depression, Etc.
• Acceptable Risks
• One Man’s Determination
• Compassionate Cannabis & Cruel Cops
• Merck Manual
• War on Drugs

 Chapter 8: Hempseed as the Basic World Food

• Humanity’s Best Single Food Source
• Spectre of World Wide Famine
• Fundamental Link in the Food Chain
• Hemp Seed Nutrition

 Chapter 9: Economics: Energy, Environment, & Commerce

• Energy & Economy
• Clean Renewable Fuel
• Biomass for Energy Abundance
• Family Farms or Fossil Fuels
• What’s the Catch
• Energy Security
• Free Enterprise, High Profit
• Change in High Fashion
• Sturdy Paper Products
• Biodegradable Replacement for Plastic
• Spin Off Trades & Taxes
• Green Economy
• Land & Soil Reclamation
• Natural Guard
• Henry Ford’s Biomass Car
• World War II

“Hemp for Victory” movie

 Chapter 10: Myth, Magic, & Medicine

• What’s in a Name (2)
• First Known Marijuana Users
• 2,300-1,000 B.C.E.
• Hemp & Scythe
• Thread of Civilization
• Hemp to Enforce Law
• Cannabis Herbal Medicine
• Mystic Philosophers
• Natural Mind
• Cloaked in Secrecy
• Judaic Line
• What the Bible Says
• Early Christianity
• Holy Roman Empire
• Church/State Aristocracy
• Politics of Paper
• Cannabis Medicines Banned
• Legal Medieval Medicines
• Contradictions
• Yet Hemp Endured
• Age of Enlightenment
• Economic Model of Forfeiture Laws
• Jefferson’s Comparison to Tobacco

 Chapter 11: The (Hemp) War of 1812, Napoleon & Russia

• The untold story of hemp’s role in an important era of history
• From 1740 to 1815

 Chapter 12: Cannabis Drug Use in 19th Century America

• Marijuana Medicine
• Literary Inspiration
• Hashish Candy
• Turkish Smoking Parlors
• American as Apple Pie
• The Smear

 Chapter 13: Prejudice: Marijuana and Jim Crow Laws

• Smoking in America
• Blackface
• All That Jazz
• Mexican Americans
• South Africa
• Remnants
• Anslinger’s Hatred of Jazz

 Chapter 14: More than Sixty Years of Suppression

• Factories, the Navy
• Privacy is a Right
• Urine Testing
• Babe Ruth
• Dividing Families
• Surveillance & Seizures
• UnAmerican Policies
• Police, Secrets, & Blackmail
• Public Humiliation
• Feudal Law
• Entrapment, Intolerance, Ignorance
• PDFA
• DARE
• Media’s Stupor
• Ongoing Injustice
• LaRouche Against Rock
• Paul McCartney/Band on the Run
• Ultimate Hypocrisy

 Chapter 15: The Official Story: Debunking “Gutter Science”

• Wasting Time & Lives
• Doublespeak
• Brain Damage Reports
• Lingering Effects
• Lung Damage Reports
• Radioactivity in Tobacco
• Nahas’ Studies
• & So On
• Alcohol
• Studies the Feds Don’t Talk About
• Coptic Study
• Jamaican Studies
• Costa Rican Study
• Amsterdam Model
• Bush Strikes Again
• Corruption/Carlton Turner

 Chapter 16: The Emperor’s New Clothes

• The Parable
• Logical Analogy
• Smithsonian’s Suppression of Facts
• Truth & Consequences of Prohibition
• High-Tech Repression
• Wasting Our Tax Money
• Double Standards
• Policies of Ignorance
• What is the Law?
• Conclusion
• What Justice Demands
• What You Can Do

 Bibliography: Recommended Reading

• Bibliography: Recommended Reading

 Appendix: Original Sources

• Appendix: Source Materials
• Appendix: Documentation
• Appendix — Cultural
• Voices for Legalization
• Controlled Substance and the Tarbaby
• Appendix — Environmental
• Response to Ed Rosenthal’s “Hemp Realities”
• Energy Farming
• Appendix — Industrial
• Hemp Products
• Appendix — Medicinal
• How dangerous is marijuana?
• Appendix — Historical
• Reefer Madness Propaganda Through the Ages
• Appendix — Legal
• Seizure & Forfeiture Laws

 Initiatives

• text of California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative
• text of Proposition 215 (Compassionate Use Initiative of 1996)

 Bonus Section

• starting a college hemp club
• Brawley research report
• Arizona stamp tax case
• proposed industrial hemp law
• how to open a hemp store
• Woody Harrelson arrested

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