Think you know a lot about cannabis and it’s history? Could you relate the ‘history of hemp’, thousands of years worth of human experience, in just four minutes and twenty seconds?
Comedian and pot activist extraordinaire Steve Berke’s 4 Twenty Today production company’s first video ‘History of Marijuana in Four Minutes and Twenty Seconds’ achieves such in high fashion and invoking laughter all the way.
Two of Steve’s previous pro-cannabis law reform pot song parodies are found here, the Macklemore parody has been seen by almost 14 million viewers:
The next production of 4 Twenty Today is set for release on September 8th (an absolutely hysterical parody of a classic American movie musical!), which is meant to correspond as being supportive for this fall’s big election in Florida on Amendment Two (which will legalize medical access for qualifying patients if 60% of the voters approve the initiative).
This brought smile after smile to my face. I wasn’t even stoned!
I hope it becomes legal in all states.
-A history of cannabis, focusing on American policy, that is.
Here’s a link to a song protesting the government’s stubborn anti-medical marijuana stance:
https://soundcloud.com/freewilljenkins/mymothersnamewasmaryjane
It is NOT humorous.
I tried to entice NORML into splitting the proceeds with me by letting me sell it on this site, but I guess they thought I was just some kind of spaced out stoner.
Canni-History in 4:20, by Julian
1.7 million years ago
In a Himalayan bliss
Our ancestors speciated
From a fire made of cannabis
They dragged their seeds through the garden
While the sun slowly set with Mars
And as the sweet smoke billowed up
They kicked back n contemplated the stars
Sweet aroma, just like pine
We recognized our sins
Then laughed as sparks rose up
N discussed our origins
And their in the Creation
Of our own Imagininz
We saw the road go on forever…
…And the party never ends…
Four Thousand years ago…
Across the plains and desert sands
Kanneh Bosem anointed Kings
And lead us to the promised lands
Prohibition started
In Exodus 30-22
Said oil’s for the Priest and Kings
But not for me and you
So Jesus took the healing oils
2000 years ago
And used them on the sick in prison
That caused his blood to flow
But from the blood and crosses
On that fateful day
If you don’t believe there was cannabis
You can ask Sulah Benet
And so it was when we asked ourselves
Who we are with all our friends
And the road goes on forever…
…And the party never ends…
Hemp was the canvas of the Rennaissance
It even made the sails that sailed the seas
built the Chinese Empire n made Indians dance
And turned the barren fields back into trees
Cannabis wove our flag n built America
Filled the pipes of Washington and Jefferson
Butit all hit the fan w/ Henry Ford’s caravan
of hemp fueled model-T’s were built and done
Prohibition’s bout the price of petrochemicals
That never could compete w/ local grown heaven
Nobody knew hemp and marijuana were identical
To the Marijuana stamp Act of 1937
So DuPont Hearst and Anslinger made propaganda
Blamed our violence on blacks n Mexicans
Patent-rich Kochs got more rights than Miranda
And…
The road goes on forever…
…But the party never ends!
In 1970
they passed the Controlled Substance Act
We blamed our inequality
On some hippy kickin back
Nixon used to spend more
On drug education
But in 1972
He had to win reelection
So prison lobbies grew
And nonviolent people’s days were through
Then Big Pharma they joined in
Till people were scared to grow herbs too
Tobacco paid their due
And prohibition grew and grew
It’s been a snowball of sin
While alcohol’s legal for you…
And old Robert DuPont
Made a fortune pissin you
Into a cup that only checks
For the safest thing you do
In 1987
Reagan made us the cartel
The ATF sold guns, made civil wars
The CIA made Spanish Hell
In 1993
Clinton made the S.O.D.
The DEA could fabricate
Evidence to fantasy
But in 1996
The endocannabinoid system
Helped California fix
Mari-med-legislation…
And with a drop of truth
The ripples grow as they begin…
And the river goes on forever
And the party never ends…
In 2001
Health and Human Services
Patented cannabinoids
While they’re separating kids
But state by state the truth
Keeps growing back again
Because the road goes on forever
And the party never ends…
And round a warm campfire
There’s some herb passin with friends
While the sparks fly up to heaven
They contemplate their origins
Lord knows what will transpire
When freedom truly ascends
While the road goes on forever
And the party never ends…
“And so it was when we asked ourselves Who we are with [a little help from] all our friends” — is your name Julian Lennon? Got to get you into my life.
(Today 50 years ago Bob Dylan turned on the Beatles, see article on marijuana.com)
P.S. Man’s Best Friend:
____animal__________vegetable____
….canis………..cannabis
….dog………….dagga
….Hund…………Hanf
….poodle……….pot
….retriever…….reefer
etc. etc.
@ the other “julian” who posted as “Julian” on a later post I already published copywrite on the above poem. Good luck getting the lyrics in rythem. ( hint, try Keen Robert Earl and a little Bob Dylan to make it work.)
Had another poll this week and it was 88 percent for mm
I don’t think these people are naming the strains properly according to their seed combinations.
In 2 thousand & 2
There came a different point of view
From U.C. at Berkley
Michael Pollan told it true
He said 15 thousand years ago
The THC got potent
Cannabis made psycho-treats
To keep our feets transportin
We know that antioxidants
Plants make using the sun
To protect from ultraviolet rays
That mutate everyone
But THC and CBD
Was genius of Creation
A plant could make a man forget
His painful destination
In fact I don’t remember where
The Hell I left my stash!
I took the seed and dried the herb
And traded it for cash!
So was this how religion
And consciousness was born?
Or was the Herb an origin?
Like the red man did with corn?
Just because a plant had found
A better friend than birds
A human spreading seeds around
While coevolving words…
The more the weed made us forget
The more that we remembered
Societies’ varieties
Built nations yet surrendered
We knew Plato was high
And so was Homer’s Odyssey
The message of the herb
Created new philosophy
We used the plant for food
We needed it for shelter
We smoked the herb to speak with God
Born from the Womb we felt Her
It taught us to forgive
Medicine that let us live
So who are we to patent
Or prohibit love we give?
I write this word
For all of you
The sick or those in prison
It’s so absurd;
Let Jesus do
The End of Prohibition.
For when did we
See you my Lord
Naked or in prison?
And bring you clothes
We could afford
To see the prophet risen?
“Amen,” He said
“What you did for
The least of these, my brothers
You did for me,
Stop this Drug War;
Return them to their mothers…”
And to all Nations
Let the Patent
Of Life be Open Source.
Let celebrations
Of cannabis
Be shared and take their course.
And that concludes
Our History
Of MJ in 4:20
Now spread these words
Of mystery:
Make Freedom before Money!
Hi Julian (jewel-ian)
I just read all your poems and what you wrote got my emotions flowing”; what you say is true; the War on Herb(s) must end today!
The Herb is too valuable to be “wasted”.
So here is more good news (from stopdrugwar.)
http://www.jollofnews.com/index.php/national-news/health/511-gambia-reduces-penalties-for-cannabis-possession
Says “Gambia; Africa” reduces penalties for cannabis possession”; see how far reaching “Norml’s and other peoples work is”?
The gov war will fall like a house of cards.
Key line from article:
Minister Sonko stated.
He added: “Moreover, without such an amendment, the number of young ex-convicts who would be out in the streets in the near future would be so huge that it may potentially create a social problem and other acute social vices.
“Such imprisonment of young first-time convicts may expose them to hardened criminals in prisons who may negatively influence their lives forever. That is one of the reasons why we want to scale down the fines depending on the quantity for first-time offenders in cannabis possession.”
This is the problem in every country !!! Anne
@ Anne,
Thanks for the cheer, though I don’t think I had to go through what Jewel had to go through just to write songs… Jeez! I was just poking some fun at whoever else posted as “Julian” on another blog right after I posted the 4:20 History Song. No worries; I’ve been posting here enough years to know which “Julian” I am.
But in the interest of “open source” cannabis… the way I truly believe cannabinoid patent 6330507 oughtta be… I hereby dedicate this song as open source… if anyone can use parts of it or all of it and make it into their own and expand upon whatever rythem suits their soul, then by all means go ahead. Momma always said if you got something good you need to share it. The only rule to open source is pass it, don’t harass it.
Hi Julian:
Hemp and Marijuana are not the only plants outlawed by corrupt or outside people; there was “Amaranth of the Mayan Culture; a small shrub with thousands of edible seeds and oil.
The Spanish outlawed the Herb altogether. The Mayan Empire once flourishing; the Amaranth fields bare. Save the Herbs today!
The FDA recently outlawed “Sassafras Bark/Oil
Sassafras is what Sarsaparilla in Root Beer; so these days only “Artificial Sassafras used
artificial sassafras…there is no such plant
(however there is a “Terpen-tine Tree!!!)
I did not mean anything when I wrote “jewelian; merely a play on words. anne
In 1960, the FDA banned the use of sassafras oil and safrole in commercially mass-produced foods and drugs based on the animal studies and human case reports because safrole is a carcinogen.[11] Several years later, sassafras tea was banned,[11] a ban that lasted until the passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act in 1994.[12] Sassafras root extracts which do not contain safrole or in which the safrole has been removed are permissible, and are still widely used commercially in teas and rootbeer
Wikipedia Sassafras New England Native Tree.
I get Sassafras and chew the greenleaf like gum this is why they call me Greenie Girl.:)
There’s something catchy about that number 6 3 3 0 5 0 7, you could use it as a refrain to a catchy tune, think about it, pluck your gitarre or whatever, write something the masses will repeat in their headspace.
Oh By the way Johannes Brahms was born (18)330507 i.e. May 7, 1833, might start with that. Unfortunately he never discovered cannabis, died of cigar cancer short of age 64. Where were the Beatles when we needed them.
The 18 versus the 6… 6/18 was Paul McCartney’s birthday (“Got to Get You Into My Life”). The Sextet op. 18 was Gustav Mahler’s favorite Brahms piece. It contains more passages you can sing “Jo-ha-nnes BRaahms” to than any other except maybe the Beethoven Sym. 5.
These coincidences might not be any more coincidental than the H. sapiens/C. sativa co-evolution was/is. How many julians does it take to spice up a website?
Correction: the cannabis product patent held by govt. is 6 6 3 0 5 0 7. Therefore entire preceding comment invalid, apologies.
6330507 turns out to be:
“Automatic vehicular velocity control apparatus”. Good for them, maybe it will save lives. You can toke while the car does the driving.