84 lines
4.5 KiB
Plaintext
84 lines
4.5 KiB
Plaintext
|
|
%%% %%% %%%% %%% %% %%%%%
|
|
%%%% %%%% %% %%%% %% %% %%
|
|
%% %%% %% %% %% %% %% %% %%
|
|
%% % %% %% %% %%%% %% %%
|
|
%% %% %%%% %% %%% %%%%%
|
|
|
|
// // //// ////// ////// //
|
|
\\ \ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\
|
|
// /// // //////// ////// ////// //
|
|
\\\\ \\\\ \\ \\ \\ \\ \\
|
|
/// /// // // // // // //
|
|
|
|
[ Mind Warp - Volume #5, Issue #01, File #072 ]
|
|
[ "American Folk Stories : 2129 A.D." by Raven ]
|
|
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
American Folk Stories : 2129 A.D.
|
|
[raven]
|
|
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|
|
|
"...You know, son," the man started, "we wouldn't have any of this
|
|
if not for a man who roamed across this vast country planting seeds that grew
|
|
into luscious, beautiful plants for us to use and enjoy."
|
|
"Do you mean Johnny Appleseed?" inquired the boy.
|
|
"No, son," replied the man, "I'm refering to Davey Hempseed."
|
|
|
|
* * * * *
|
|
|
|
The father quickly but neatly packed another bowl into his pipe.
|
|
"Many years back, there lived a man by the name of Davey Hempseed. Well, he
|
|
was just called Dave back then, but you get the idea. Anyway, Davey Hempseed
|
|
was a great man who realized the importance of hemp for the continued success
|
|
of this nation. He was determined to educate the people of America as to
|
|
the benefits of cannabis..."
|
|
"But didn't they already know how wonderful the herb is?" asked the
|
|
boy.
|
|
"No," chuckled the man, "People back then were savages and not very
|
|
intelligent. Computers had only recently been invented, and they used
|
|
devices called microchips that were made of silicon, haha.." the man sighed,
|
|
"They had also made hemp illegal."
|
|
The boy's mouth dropped upon hearing this last statement.
|
|
"Yes, people sure were stupid back then. Alas, thanks to Davey
|
|
Hempseed we've come along way, but without him who knows."
|
|
The man paused to take a long deep toke from his pipe. "Davey
|
|
started off with just one brick of marijuana. He smoked it all with his
|
|
friends, and found that he had a over a hundred seeds. Since they didn't
|
|
know how to extract the protein and nutrients from the seeds to make a
|
|
hemp-burger or other fine hemp product from the seeds back then, Davey set
|
|
off on a road trip to follow the Grateful Dead's summer tour."
|
|
"The Grateful Dead?" exclaimed the boy, "Was this before Jerry Garcia
|
|
died?"
|
|
"No," replied the man, again pausing to toke his pipe, "this was
|
|
shortly aftwerwards, but the rest of the Grateful Dead members were sell-outs
|
|
and continued to go on tour to make more money, but that's not the point."
|
|
The boy pulled his hempen blanket up around him, and begain rolling
|
|
a joint.
|
|
"Davey Hempseed," continued the man, "followed the Dead everywhere
|
|
in his Volkswagon bus. Seattle, Chicago, New York, DC, Atlanta, New Orleans,
|
|
Austin, Los Angeles, everywhere. And everyplace he went, he would plant the
|
|
hempseeds from the last brick he smoked, and buy another brick. He planted
|
|
the seeds in public parks, private property, landfills, anywhere they would
|
|
grow."
|
|
The boy fired up his tightly wrapped J.
|
|
"The following year, Davey followed Pink Floyd around on their US
|
|
summer tour."
|
|
"Pink Floyd?!?" the boy exclaimed in pure awe.
|
|
"Yes, Floyd had sold out by this time as well, but they still played
|
|
some great tunes. Anyway, as Davey Hempseed went to each city he had
|
|
visited the previous year, he found marvellous fields of hemp already growing
|
|
where he had planted them. Soon hords of concert goers followed in Davey's
|
|
footsteps. They would smoke the plants that Davey had planted and then
|
|
replant the seeds. After a few years the entire country was green with hemp.
|
|
All because of one man and a dream. Davey also did some political stuff,
|
|
but I can't remember what right now. Pass me the herb..."
|
|
|
|
|
|
raven(69) <raven96@hic.net>
|
|
|
|
==============================================================================
|
|
Call Omniverse, the Mind Warp WHQ - (301) 718-0225
|
|
==============================================================================
|
|
|