Mark:
Right on!
By the way, there is a reason why you won't find marijuana in the 1905 Websters. Up until the mid 1930's, cannabis was usually referred to as cannabis, hemp, or India hemp. When Harry Anslinger, (new chief of the Bureau of Narcotics - forefather of the DEA), decided to convince the states to outlaw cannabis, he catered to racially based fear and ignorance in the Southwest states against Mexican migrant workers. He and Randolph Hearst engaged in a campaign of pure false propaganda, spreading reefer madness stories about how these Mexicans smoked the evil narcotic, marihuana, and raped the farmer's daughter, then hacked up the farmer's family with a hatchet, etc.
It doesn't say much for the intelligence of our species when a natural product that has been scientifically proven to help a myriad of illnesses and has an unlimited number of industial uses - uses that can help save this planet - and is virtually harmless, (1100-1500 people die from aspirin poisoning each year in the U.S. In the entire recorded history of man, not a single person has ever died from cannabis poisoning. It is estimated that the fatal dosage level of cannabis would require a person to smoke a joint the size of a telephone pole in 15 minutes!), is treated as a pariah by the gov't. It is nothing short of insane that the U.S. gov't continues to not only jail it's own citizens for possession of this amazing herb, but plays bully to the rest of the world on this issue, threatening other nations, most recently Canada and Mexico, when they try to approach this issue in a more reasonable manner. Of course, in the U.S., putting humans in cages is a major industry, not to be trifled with. We're number 1 in both numbers of people in jail, and percentage of population in jail and we're kicking ass - number 2 ain't even close!
Like you, Mark, any excuse to spread the truth.
Bill, fhtffotmapoi
(Former High Times Freedom Fighter of the Month, and proud of it!)
