
An american journey on the road of the most useful and most prohibited plant in the world
Why is it that a plant that has been on the Earth for 38 million years, known and used for the last 5.000 years, has been prohibited for the last 80 years?
Why, in the U.S., are an increasing number of states today legalizing and regulating its medical and recreational use? What political and economic direction will this plants journey take? What can we learn in Europe from those who first prohibited it and are now re-legalizing it? An amazing therapeutic journey crossing the borders of re-legalization: travelling through the valleys and mountains of organic growers vs. tobacco corporations, enlightened scientists and vested interests of the pharmaceutical companies; traversing the diverse experiences of those spending years in prison thanks to marijuana related offences and others helping to build this huge new industry...dreaming of a world saved by cannabis.
Internationally honoured and recognized researcher, Prof. Gessa remains a free spirit, holding a worldview simultaneously seen through the lense of a neuroscientist balanced with youthful questioning, playfully defying his 84 years.
The only american president obliged to resign, that was not arrested. In 3,000 hours of secret recordings, evidence is revealed that his war on drugs was, in reality, a war on people.
After a traumatic brain injury, Chamelle started growing cannabis for her own personal medical use. Today she runs a dispensary that has a program offering free cannabis oil treatment to 60 kids with epilepsy, tumors, crohn's disease...
Manager of an authorized dispensary in Eugene, Oregon. Morgan advocates for building a small organic network in the Oregon cannabis industry, without stopping loving and living.
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