The Legend of Johnny Marijuana Seed

The Story of The Legend of Johnny Marijuana Seed:

Ever since Spanish missionaries first carried plants to California in the 1700s,
explorers and pioneers have innocently brought all kinds of familiar plants to America.
The dandelion came from France and Benjamin Franklin brought the Chinese tallow.

Today, 5,000 of the 22,000 plants found in the United States are from other countries.
A report from Cornell University says 98 percent of our nations food
comes from introduced species such as wheat, rice, cattle and other livestock.

We have turned into a nation of Johnny Appleseeds.
Seeds for plants of all types are hitch hiking on planes, trains, cars, shoes
and in the digestive systems of birds and mammals.

What is this phenomena and who is this person who gave us this name, "Johnny Marijuana Seed?"

Johnny Marijuana Seed is the ideal of the Great, Great, Grand Child
of the Legendary "Johnny Appleseed."

Johnny Appleseed is the nickname given to one John Chapman.
Born on a Monday in apple-cider time on September 26, 1774 in Leominster, Massachusetts.

Its now fabled that Johnny began his nomadic life
after having a dream
in which he had a vision of a world filled with apple trees in bloom
and where no one had to go hungry, then set out to fulfill that dream.

For fourty-nine years he roamed the American wilderness,
devotedly planting apple trees from seeds he had collected from cider presses in Pennsylvania.
He created apple orchards in the wildernesses of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana.
Spanning an estimated area of 100,000 square miles.
Some of these trees are still bearing fruit after 150 years.

"Johnny Appleseed" was not just a scatterer of seeds as many people believed,
he was a practical nurseryman.
He realized that there was a real need
and an opportunity for service
in supplying both the seed and the seedlings.

Apples originated in Asia and were first grown in Europe more than 5,000 years ago.
They came to America with the pilgrims in 1629
and made their debut in Pennsylvania in the 1680s
at orchards planted by the Swedish settlers along the Delaware River near Philadelphia.

"Hemp" was also among these seeds brought to America by the pilgrims.
Before the civil war, hemp (marijuana) was the largest cash crop in America
second only to cotton.
In 1794 George Washington encouraged the young American colonists
to, "make the most of the hemp seed... sow it everywhere."

We wanted to stay independent of other nations for our needs.
Hemp gave us ropes, sails, oils for cooking, and heating,
clothing, light, building materials, medicines, and over 50,000 other useful products.

In 1920 the U.S. Department of Agriculture published a pamphlet
urging Americans to grow cannabis (marijuana, hemp) as a profitable undertaking.

Hemp laws were established at a time when synthetics were in their infancy
and corrupt governmental leaders arranged for our laws to crush hemp as a competitor
and further undermine our agricultural infrastucture.
Albeit, when the rubber hits the road,
wars have been structured to protect our agricultural interests when they are on foreign soils...
such as the Viet Nam War which was designed to protect our interests of rubber trees.
Then you recall when the Japanese cut off our supply of hemp from Manilla, Phillippines...

... in 1942, the U. S. Government distributed 400,000 pounds of cannabis seeds
to farmers from Wisconsin to Kentucky.
The U.S.D.A. required farmers to attend showings of the pro-cannabis classic,
"Hemp For Victory."

Johnny Appleseed was a nickname for John Chapman,
a true American hero and legend.

Johnny Marijuana Seed is a nickname for another true life American hero -
YOU!

You can find similar web-sites by using the keywords "Johnny Marijuana Seed"
where you are encouraged to "Strew Hemp Seeds Everywhere."
In the highways and byways, in the ditches and the thoroughfares of the cities in which we live;
the outdoor passageways that connect us to each other.

Do this.

Don't just think about it,
actually take a walk and toss those seeds in the most moist places you can find.
In this way you recycle the seeds you are given in the bounty you receive.
(Of course if the seeds you happen to get are of a particularly fine quality
then put those in a pot on the backporch.) If you have any extra, by all means, share!

Give back to the good Earth that supports your life.
Ask your "kind" friends if they'll save their seeds for you for this purpose.
Maybe ask them to take a walk with you.

We,
American citizens,
can't fight city hall or purchase lawyers to get laws passed by Congress like Big Business does...
but we can inundate the highways and byways
with the NATURAL GOD GIVEN SEEDS that go through our lives.
Get in your cars and spread the seeds in the ditches.
Toss them in your public places and over the fences that separate us.
Get your local rich person to take you up in their airplanes
and dump hemp seeds out the windows over every parcel of land you can.

(Pssss.... together we can make the difference. )

"Spread the Word ... Spread the Seed... Imagine The Harvest!"

(Oh yeah, and vote at your next local election! Mark it on your calendar! Do it!)

DON'T STOP TILL CANNABIS, HEMP, MARIJUANA IS DECRIMINALIZED, PERIOD.