Robert asks…
What is in all these Shisha Tobacco?
What are the ingredients in all these Shisha Tobacco products I see in smoke shops? It always just says flavored tobacco. Flavored with what?
Like if I grew my own tobacco what would I have to mix with it for it to be considered “shisha tobacco“?
GardenersCardiff answers:
The base of most shishas is molasses, honey, vegetable glycerin or a combination of them. You have to use essential oils and commercial flavorings to create your own flavor. The base will help pull those flavors into the tobacco. It’s doable and it’s a lot of work.
Donna asks…
What is the official government given reason for marijuana being illegal?
I often hear the real reason is because it can’t be efficiently taxed like tobacco and alcohol because you can just grow your own marijuana at home and they wouldn’t be able to say “that’s illegal because it’s inconvenient for us”, so they just clump it together with all the genuinely bad drugs like heroin in some big “evil drugs” image.
Is this the officially claimed reason, literally the Government saying “we want your money so you can’t have a cheap alternative”? I can’t imagine health issues being a problem seeing as they’re fine with tobacco (lung cancer spreading to themselves and those they smoke around) and alcohol (damages brain cells and causes accidents and violence affecting the drinkers and those they’re drunk around).
I especially can’t see it as a self harm issue: Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think there are any laws against self harm. If I cut myself, I won’t get a fine or jail time for it, so the whole “we’re going to fine you/ give you jail time for your own good because that stuff is bad for your health” wouldn’t make sense.
So what IS their claimed reason?
@garrytoo: They made it illegal because it’s against the law? That makes no sense. It only because against the law when they made it illegal, and I’m asking what happened beforehand that made them think “shucks, we can’t let this stuff stay legal”.
To those saying “it’s believed to be harmful”, tobacco and alcohol are KNOWN to be VERY harmful, yet not only legalised, but used to make a tidy profit. Harmfullness of the drug clearly isn’t the issue until it gets to the harm levels of stuff like heroin and cocaine. Even addictiveness, tobacco and alcohol aren’t exempt from.
GardenersCardiff answers:
Do you want the 100% historical truth? Here it is:
In the 1930s, this dude named William Randolph Hearst was heavily affiliated with the paper industry. Marijuana/ hemp is actually a more economic substitute for this because 1 tree for hemp is the equivalent of 4 trees we use for paper.
Hearst didn’t want to lose a penny, and this would crush his net worth. So, he and politicians endorsed this movie “Reefer Madness” an incredibly biased propaganda film about how marijuana causes people to go crazy and kill each other. They also did horrible tests on monkeys in labs by putting gas masks on them and burning pounds of cannabis indica, (the weed that gets you high) into the animals’ lungs.
This spawned the myth about how weed kills brain cells. If normally ingested, less than a few grams of weed on a strictly occasional will actually stimulate the mind with positive effects for creativity (the right side brain). The monkeys, aren’t people, so this was way off from the beginning, and the monkeys basically became brainless from too much marijuana.
In 1937, the government thought that the people would buy into this. So, they passed a law in 1937 that said, the possession, selling or ingestion of marijuana *indica* is illegal (and today it is classified as dangerous as heroin).
The main goal was to get rid of the cannabis sativa (the industrial kind used for paper and what not.)
But the government seriously raped marijuana and today ruins the lives of people for just simple possession.
The claimed reason that it is “it is dangerous to society” yet alcohol and cigarettes are legal and faaaar more dangerous than marijuana. Nobody has died from ingestion of marijuana itself. If you die from doing stupid stuff while on it, that’s your fault. The same can go for alcohol, yet it is still legal. Once marijuana is legalized (which people project it to be legal within the next decade) it will hurt not only the paper industry, but the alcohol and tobacco industry as well.
All of this is completely factual. Look this up if you have a doubt about any of it.
John asks…
how do i grow my own tobacco?
i’m from louisana and i like to do things myself and want to know how to grow my own tobacco to make my own cigars and just smoke out of a pipe…..tell me how to do it….like time of year to plant how to take care of it when to cut them etc etc…
GardenersCardiff answers:
Here you go.
Http://monsterguide.net/how-to-grow-tobacco
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