Answer for: What herb have you used that you KNOW is good for something?
#1 Cannabis
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My aunt Concha's response to this answer: HM! Bola de Marijuanos! Ponganse hacer algo!
[Typical! Potheads! Get off your buts and do something]
What's "typical" about saying that cannabis is an herb with positive benefits? Why would she assume that I'm a "pothead" or that I need to get off my butt and do something because I believe that?
You can tell Aunt Concha that she best get to know a person before she goes making all of these grand leaps and assumptions; Here's a few "potheads" off the top of my head that managed to get off their asses and accomplish one or two things:
Al Gore
Bill Murray
Bruce Lee
Carl Sagan
Douglas Adams
Dr Francis Crick
Edgar Allen Poe
Elvis Presley
Ernest Hemmingway
George Washington
Jack Nicholson
Lewis Carroll
Mike Bloomberg
Newt Gingrich
Pablo Picasso
Rudyard Kipling
Steve Jobs
Stephen King
Victor Hugo
William Shakespeare
True... My aunt Concha is just a cleaning lady. I think she DID clean Bill Murrays place at the World Golf Village in St. Augustine though... if that gives her any more credibility.
Cannabis is a very popular herb around where I live in Washington State.
It is the sixth largest cash crop in the state coming in just behind cherries at about $350,000,000 annual revenues. It is a major pillar in our state's overall prosperity.
In 2000 my state was number 28 in the nation for domestic production, since then it has moved into the top ten.
Production is increasing even now. Canadian growers of "BC bud", having discovered increasing difficulties at the border since 9/11 are moving their grow operations into the state, preferring large houses in quiet suburban neighborhoods as grow sites, and as recent busts have revealed, they are being assisted in finding those houses by mortgage, and real estate companies.
Several years ago the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran a series of articles about the regional drug scene and said if you parachuted out of an airplane at any random place in the five country Seattle metro area, you would land less than a quarter miles from a major indoor growing operation.
Say what you want about cannabis, but apparently it is being integrated fully into the main stream economy, and is here to stay.