{"id":19589,"date":"2019-10-23T12:03:54","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T18:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=61014"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:03:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T18:03:54","slug":"letter-marijuana-is-a-beautiful-gift-from-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/local-news\/letter-marijuana-is-a-beautiful-gift-from-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Marijuana is a \u2018beautiful gift from nature\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.skyhinews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2019\/05\/letters-shn.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>I applaud <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/opinion\/letters\/letter-grand-county-needs-to-lose-the-stigma-with-cannabis\/\">Alejandro Perez Stark\u2019s letter<\/a> in the Oct. 4 edition of the Sky-Hi News. Also, I am so proud of our state for leading our nation in this long overdue righting of a wrong. As with any commodity, there will be use, abuse \u2014 and everything in between \u2014 as it is with money, alcohol, food, pharmaceuticals and power, especially.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe the People\u201d had the wool pulled over our eyes by the<br \/>\ngreedy politicians and their even greedier champions, big businesses, when the<br \/>\n\u201cMarihuana Tax Act\u201d was slid through without a vote by the American public.<br \/>\nWhat a sad reflection that is upon our federal government, and it\u2019s high time<br \/>\nwe pull that wool from our eyes. It\u2019s all about power and control over people,<br \/>\nas we see our hard-earned taxes being wasted.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two facts: The word, \u201ccanvas,\u201d can be traced back to Greek or Latin and comes from the word, \u201ckannabis.\u201d That is where humans derived our first fiber crop, woven into hemp, which is much more pliable and breathable than animal skins, and desirable in the warmer climes of middle Asia, where cannabis originated. Also, the U.S. government, in a moment of clarity, briefly promoted the growth of Cannabis during World War II, as canvas and rope were needed for the military because plastic products hadn\u2019t quite caught up. Check out the federally produced, 14-minute movie \u201cHemp for Victory,\u201d released in 1942. The USDA initially denied making this movie, but eventually had to own up.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a couple more interesting tidbits: George Washington grew cannabis and used the medicinal extracts to help alleviate pain caused by his wooden dentures. It shouldn\u2019t be surprising that the human brain has cannabinoid-specific receptors, as humans and plants have evolved together, as far back as we can trace humanity. Let\u2019s be truthful about this beautiful gift from nature.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2014 Jill Jacobsen, Tabernash<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/opinion\/letter-marijuana-is-a-beautiful-gift-from-nature\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Sky-Hi News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I applaud Alejandro Perez Stark\u2019s letter in the Oct. 4 edition of the Sky-Hi News. Also, I am so proud of our state for leading our nation in this long overdue righting of a wrong. As with any commodity, there will be use, abuse \u2014 and everything in between \u2014 as it is with money, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19589","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-15 05:30:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}