Quotes from Rowan Robinson

The concentration of cannabinoid receptors in the areas of the brain devoted to the higher mental processes—memory, cognition, creativity—is striking. Hemp seems custom designed to sustain our soul as well as our body.

We're saying you don't take a two-hundred- to five-hundred-year-old plant—namely a tree—to make a house that lasts fifty years. You take a plant that takes one hundred days to grow to make a house that lasts fifty years. That gives you sustainability.

In fact, one of the most remarkable qualities of cannabis is its safety as a medicine. With a lethal-to-effective-dose ratio of 40,000 to 1, cannabis is far safer than aspirin and most other legal medicines, which commonly have a lethal dose only ten times greater than their effective one.6

Anything you can make out of a tree you can make out of hemp.

The realization occurs that hemp is not a deadly "drug" but simply a God-given plant, one with a long and distinguished history of service to mankind.

Hemp is a low-maintenance crop that can be grown in most climates, it does not deplete the soil of nutrients, and its deep root system can help to prevent erosion.

Growing hemp as an energy crop is a viable, long-term fuel alternative for the United States, which consumes about 60 percent of the planet's annual energy production.

However, there is only one plant helper used all over the world, since prehistory, that gives us food, clothing, building materials, fuel, medicine, and has the power to affect our consciousness, our imagination, and the way we see that world. That plant is hemp, Cannabis sativa.

Only the arrogance of the modern mentality, worshipping at the altar of the church of progress, would reject and deny the history and virtues of hemp.

We now have scientific evidence for what so many world cultures have known all along: that only a handful of plants on Earth are welcomed as naturally by the human mind as is hemp.