What is Green Brighton all about?
For a long time the public have been told by authorities, governments, councils and lawmakers that the naturally growing plant known as cannabis is detrimental to our health. However, more recent discoveries have proven it to not only be one of the most remarkable and versatile natural medicines on the planet, but in some cases the only known cure for a number of diseases and ailments without severe side effects. There are a number of recent reports that clearly prove the benefits of Cannabis, specifically the CBD's (cannabidiols) contained within the plant. More shockingly there are now a number of people who, after using cannabis to help with illness, are now either labelled as criminals or in some cases incarcerated.
Now you may be thinking that these people have broken the law and it is simply justice being served, but I put it to you that once upon a time you may have been imprisoned or executed for speaking out of turn about God, or your king etc. The idea of people being imprisoned or worse just for voicing their views in this day and age is in itself criminal. But this was the law of the land, implemented by the leaders and governments of the time. Since then we have evolved mentally to allow people to have the freedom to say whatever they choose and hold whatever view they want. Now Cannabis is certainly different from what it used to be, and there is no doubt that it can have a negative effect if used improperly and without a certain respect. But this should be a choice made by a person who has been educated to understand the pro's and con's of using this plant, much in the same way alcohol is today (even though alcohol causes between 6 and 8 thousand deaths a year in the UK alone and costs the UK £21bn.....yes BILLION.... a year in healthcare). The fact remains that most people just don't know much about cannabis except what they have been told by the media and government and end up spouting the same sound bites that they have picked up along the way without doing any research of their own.
My aim on this site is to change that. I want to change the mindset of the public, not to necessarily get cannabis legalised (as good as that may sound to cannabis users, there's a whole other can of worms yet to be realised by most!), but I would just like the public to realise what a concocted lie we've been told about this incredible plant. The uses don't stop at a method of relaxation and mind calming, or the many, MANY medicinal benefits it holds when grown in its proper balanced state, but also what financial and environmental benefits it can bring to our society. Did you know that hemp in its male form can be manufactured into materials that can replace almost any item in your household? Or that one of Henry Fords first vehicles was "The car you can grow", made using hemp fibres that have a higher tensile strength than steel and which ran on hemp oil? Or that cannabis was the basis for almost every medicine and tincture in mainstream medicine up to the mid 1930's. Now bearing in mind that hemp is a weed that grows in almost any climate, in abundance..... Would giving that power to the common man not worry the oil industry, the pharmaceutical industry or the timber/logging industry? In fact that one of the men who first started the fight against cannabis in the United States was a man by the name of William Randolph Hearst, who owned a major logging company that produced tree pulp paper and was an American newspaper publisher who built the largest newspaper chain in the U.S.A that influenced journalism as we know it today. These facts should ring alarm bells in the public's minds, but it does not. Why you ask? The answer is simple, a calculated effort to keep the public blind to the truth in order to remain in profit. I truly believe that it's time for this to stop.
With your help, I aim to create a website that will help educate people from all walks of life on the truth about cannabis. I will be updating this site with historical information as well as modern discoveries, cultural happenings around the world and the latest news. I hope that in time we will see a change in our perception of this amazing plant and, with a little bit of education, a change in the laws that govern what is probably the most important and essential bit of vegetation you will ever know.
Now you may be thinking that these people have broken the law and it is simply justice being served, but I put it to you that once upon a time you may have been imprisoned or executed for speaking out of turn about God, or your king etc. The idea of people being imprisoned or worse just for voicing their views in this day and age is in itself criminal. But this was the law of the land, implemented by the leaders and governments of the time. Since then we have evolved mentally to allow people to have the freedom to say whatever they choose and hold whatever view they want. Now Cannabis is certainly different from what it used to be, and there is no doubt that it can have a negative effect if used improperly and without a certain respect. But this should be a choice made by a person who has been educated to understand the pro's and con's of using this plant, much in the same way alcohol is today (even though alcohol causes between 6 and 8 thousand deaths a year in the UK alone and costs the UK £21bn.....yes BILLION.... a year in healthcare). The fact remains that most people just don't know much about cannabis except what they have been told by the media and government and end up spouting the same sound bites that they have picked up along the way without doing any research of their own.
My aim on this site is to change that. I want to change the mindset of the public, not to necessarily get cannabis legalised (as good as that may sound to cannabis users, there's a whole other can of worms yet to be realised by most!), but I would just like the public to realise what a concocted lie we've been told about this incredible plant. The uses don't stop at a method of relaxation and mind calming, or the many, MANY medicinal benefits it holds when grown in its proper balanced state, but also what financial and environmental benefits it can bring to our society. Did you know that hemp in its male form can be manufactured into materials that can replace almost any item in your household? Or that one of Henry Fords first vehicles was "The car you can grow", made using hemp fibres that have a higher tensile strength than steel and which ran on hemp oil? Or that cannabis was the basis for almost every medicine and tincture in mainstream medicine up to the mid 1930's. Now bearing in mind that hemp is a weed that grows in almost any climate, in abundance..... Would giving that power to the common man not worry the oil industry, the pharmaceutical industry or the timber/logging industry? In fact that one of the men who first started the fight against cannabis in the United States was a man by the name of William Randolph Hearst, who owned a major logging company that produced tree pulp paper and was an American newspaper publisher who built the largest newspaper chain in the U.S.A that influenced journalism as we know it today. These facts should ring alarm bells in the public's minds, but it does not. Why you ask? The answer is simple, a calculated effort to keep the public blind to the truth in order to remain in profit. I truly believe that it's time for this to stop.
With your help, I aim to create a website that will help educate people from all walks of life on the truth about cannabis. I will be updating this site with historical information as well as modern discoveries, cultural happenings around the world and the latest news. I hope that in time we will see a change in our perception of this amazing plant and, with a little bit of education, a change in the laws that govern what is probably the most important and essential bit of vegetation you will ever know.