Sean P. Silverman 8 December 1999 Hurry Up Long recognized as one of God's greatest gifts to mankind, Ganja truly can heal the earth. Unknown to many today, cannabis hemp was used worldwide in paper, fiber, lamp oil and nautical applications throughout the 19th century, constituting "possibly the largest agricultural and industrial businesses in America" (Herer 83). In the early part of the 1800s cannabis was the number one medicine in the US (83). It held that spot tightly, …showed first 75 words of 2331 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2331 total…we enjoy God's truly beautiful gift without shame. It's what Ben would have wanted. Bibliography Works Cited Clark, Shan. "Man-Made Fiber… The Toxic Alternative to Natural Fibers." The Emperor Wears No Clothes. (1998): 27. "Communities of Color and the drug war." Drug Reform Coordination Network. Dec. 1999. . Herer, Jack. The Emperor Wears No Clothes. Phoenix: Paper Master Trade Printing, 1998. Rubin, Vera, and Lambros Comitas. Ganja in Jamaica-A Medical Anthropological Study of Chronic Marijuana Use. New York: Anchor Books, 1975.