Medical Growing
A Garden of Peace
Written and Photographed by
By Daniel P. Boughen
Foreword by Joe Pietri
Medical Growing: A Garden of Peace
Copyright 2012. Daniel P. Boughen, All Rights Reserved.
Presentation Copyright 2012 TrineDay.
Photo Art by Van M. Bigelow
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2012935024
Boughen, Daniel P.
Medical Growing: A Garden of Peace1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliography.
Epub (ISBN-13) 978-1-936296-97-2 (ISBN-10) 1-936296-97-7
Kindle (ISBN-13) 978-1-936296-98-9 (ISBN-10) 1-936296-98-5
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I dedicate this book to those persecuted and incarcerated by the War on Drugs, to my Father, who was organic before there was a movement, to Mum, who told me to Write what I know, and to my love, Penny.
One has a Moral Responsibility to disobey unjust Laws.
Dr. Martin Luther King
This handbook will take you straight to the finished product in the shortest possible time with less power and effort, yielding healthier, happier plants, productive crops, and the best Cannabis you ever had! I hope you enjoy it.
Daniel Boughen
Table of Contents
Foreword
Canna in ancient Greek meant cane, sativa in ancient Sanskrit meant easily grown, hence Cannabis Sativa cane easily grown. Cannabis has grown around us since before written history. Prior to prohibition in 1937 Cannabis plants were grown for medicinal as well as commercial purposes, the recreational use of Cannabis had always been secondary. Though prior to prohibition it is estimated that there were only 55,000 smokers in the US, there were millions of people who used Cannabis-based medicines. Cannabis was sold at the pharmacy in two natural forms as whole product or as resin, as well as tinctures and dozens of concoctions that were Cannabis based. Some of the major pharmaceutical companies like Lilly and Parke Davis made their initial fortunes on Cannabis based medicine. Parke Davis sold raw Cannabis to pharmacies that was imported from India at around $1.80 a pound wholesale in 1908. Most folks just grew their own Cannabis in their vegetables gardens. You see Cannabis was an ordinary thing, only prohibition made it extra ordinary.
1840- 1940 were the golden years of medical Cannabis. It was legally farmed for the pharmaceutical industry and grew in many gardens. Farmers would feed it to livestock who went off their feed, as the munchy effect would make the livestock ravenous. It was a common herbal remedy for many ailments.
1940-1990 were the glory years of medical Cannabis. Many risked their lives to supply Cannabis to human beings who had been using Cannabis as medicine since before recorded time. All Cannabis use is self-medication.
1990-today is the Weed Greed era, in which control of Cannabis information and a tightly controlled Cannabis media would be the envy of Joseph Goebbels. Its as if they created a year zero for Cannabis and everything since 1990 has been designed to get us to spend more and grow less. Much of the Cannabis today is grown for recreational use, and is not medical quality, as the medicine has been bred out and THC bred in. The ditch weed that grows wild in Kansas has more medical value than most recreational Cannabis because it can have a very high percentage of CBD: as much as 2-7%, with very little if any THC.
The importance of this book is that it is the first written outside of the Cannabis Industry and that true technique is taught. There is no separate botany for Cannabis. Here flower industry standards which have been left out of all Cannabis grow books taught, making medicinal Cannabis easy and inexpensive to produce.
Prior to 1990 most Cannabis products were imported from third world countries, they were cheap and good and grown organically, today the price of Cannabis is inflated due to backward technique. The Cannabis industry has not made one improvement in the processing of Cannabis, and in many cases actually diluted not only the medicinal quality but original ol skool recipes in order to sell bogus products based on fraud technique. Obsolete methods are taught that only enrich the status quo and dilute your medicine. They have genetically modified Cannabis and have introduced terminator technology, in order to make you a seed junkie one seed one plant. The Cannabis industry decides what you should know and what you should not learn, and spends your $$$ freely for you.
My hope is that this book is the start of a revolution of truth about the growing of Cannabis and the production of Cannabis products.
Joe Pietri
Author, King of Nepa l
Introduction
Cannabis will soon be legal. The bigoted treatment and moral wrongs being committed against Cannabis smokers must come to an end in the name of our civil and constitutional rights, our health and environment, and for our peace and humanity. Cannabis prohibition laws are now under attack, and the rest of the world watches as citizens who are now better educated than ever about side effects, drugs and addiction decide for themselves that Cannabis is safe in spite of decades of state propaganda.
With legalization, the production, distribution and regulation of Cannabis could be taken out of the hands of organized crime, where poor product quality and the presence of impurities, violence and association with hard drugs presently makes purchasing Cannabis dangerous. Cannabis must be put back under the control of the people who need and enjoy it.
The billions that the sale of Cannabis generates on the black market could instead pay unionized workers in a legal industry, where the funds will be contributing to local economies and federal social welfare instead of propping up organized crime networks. It would instead support our communities.
We need the unity within the Cannabis community to expand to the general public, and so we must keep providing proper information and publicly calling a bad policy what it is. We must mobilize human rights groups to once again overturn unfair prohibition laws in our respective countries. This is an international human rights issue and deserves to be treated as such. To grow Cannabis for your personal medicine is now an act of patriotism.
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