Forbes recently published a thoughtful piece about the legendary Jack Herer, father of modern cannabis activism (pictured above with Dennis Peron, who himself is as much a pillar of the cannabis movement as Jack) without whom our modern moment of sweeping decriminalization and legalization of cannabis and hemp use– medical, recreational and industrial– would not have occurred.
It occurs to us to wonder, however, what Jack would have thought about the intensive, nearly strangling controls that we have accepted in trade for the moderate legal tolerances we we have achieved for access to this benevolent plant. In an era of burdensome and costly licensing, regulation, batch tracking and child proofing that we all are blithely accepting in exchange for this tolerance, were Jack here right now he might be the one trying to remind us– like the charming and wonderful children’s educational book of the same title— that “it’s just a plant.”
Minnesotans are seeing green, and the new law legalizing pot has made an immediate impact on the accessibility and popularity of beverages with THC, the key ingredient from hemp and cannabis that gets someone high.
The earliest Egyptian references to the healing properties of the plant are found in the fragments of an almost 4000 year old scroll of medical instructions, known to scholars as the Papyrus Ramesseum III.
1300 years ago, the seafaring raiders, traders and explorers from Denmark, Norway and Sweden collectively known as Vikings began to sweep across Europe, the Mediterranean, North America and even the Middle East. This period of furious activity is known as “the Viking age”.
We never use synthetic alternatives like chemically-modified Delta-8-THC. Accept no substitutes for nature!
