Hemp is one of the oldest crops domesticated by man The history of hemp in Holland also goes back for thousands of years

Cannabis sativa L is the scientific name given to the cannabis or hemp plant in 1753 by the Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus

# 1 Rosie Boycott, Independent on Sunday, 28 Sept 1997 "If alcohol is a tiger, cannabis is merely a mouse" # 2 Jon Owen Jones, UK MP "We have tried the prohibition route for 30 years and it obviously, patently isn't working" # 3 Judge James Grey, Orange County Superior Court, Santa Ana, CA, at the DPF Conference, November 1996: "If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one" # 4 President Jimmy Carter: "Penalties against possession of a drug should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself" # 5 The Economist March 28th 1992: "Medicines often produce side effects