not a pot head, just wondering

[Mark David Morris]

Michael,

Thanks for the clarification on hemp.  I think you are right about the
English tradition of the word. So, this hemp with yellow flowers which
grows wild in sandy soils in the midwest is Massane and is native to the
Americas? Thanks also for explaining tlasotlaloni.  I promise to
read Carochi more carefully before asking further questions.  Mark

On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Michael Mccafferty wrote:

> The term "hemp" has been used to designate other plants beside cannabis.
> <Massane>, used by the early French in the Illinois Country and translated
> consistently into English as "hemp" was not cannabis. I believe the early
> historic use of "hemp" refers to any twine-producing plant.
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> MIchael McCafferty
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> On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Mark David Morris wrote:
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> > Simeon's dictionary gives the following definition:  Planta que tiene el
> > olor y el sabor del anis; se la echaba al fuego en ves de incienso.
> > Servia para curar gran numero de enfermedades, particularmente las de los
> > ojos (ref. Sahagun, Clavijero and Francisco Hernandez).  That about the
> > eyes sounds like marijuana (African hemp?) but I've never thought it had
> > the smell nor taste of anis.  This yauhtli, then, may or may not be a hemp
> > plant, with common characteristics with the marijuana plant, which again,
> > I believe originates in Africa--but maybe the Rastafarians just convinced
> > me of that. It deserves further investigating, and I could recommend the
> > Florentine Codice (Sahagun) or this Nova plantarum animalium et mineralium
> > mexicanorum historia by Francisco Hernandez.
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> > For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more
> > grief. Eccl 1:18
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> > To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, this is a noble insight. To
> > regard our ignorance as knowledge, this is mental sickness.  Only when we
> > are sick of our sickness, shall we cease to be sick.  The Sage is not
> > sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.  TTC 71
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> > MDM, PhD Candidate
> > Dept. of History, Indiana Univ.
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> Michael McCafferty
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For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more
grief. Eccl 1:18

To realize that our knowledge is ignorance, this is a noble insight. To
regard our ignorance as knowledge, this is mental sickness.  Only when we
are sick of our sickness, shall we cease to be sick.  The Sage is not
sick, being sick of sickness; This is the secret of health.  TTC 71

MDM, PhD Candidate
Dept. of History, Indiana Univ.