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Promote Your Page TooBlog: When Government Fails In Kentucky Topics:Commerce, Hemp, Kentucky HAMS Harm Reduction
"The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental or spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest."
John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859HAMS - Drug Harm Reduction Network
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Kentucky Marijuana Party- Has U.S. started an Internet war? June 18, 2013
- Talking Marijuana with Dr. Jeffrey Miron June 18, 2013
- Stop Tossing Billions Into The Tax Pot Trying to Fight Pot June 17, 2013
- U.S. Supreme Court sides with Oklahoma in water case June 15, 2013
- Ky.’s senators blocked in effort to legalize hemp June 7, 2013
- Anger swells after NSA phone records collection revelations June 7, 2013
- A Starbucks for Pot? National Chain of Marijuana Stores in the Works June 3, 2013
- In Honor of Richard James Rawlings 1961-2013 February 28, 2013
- Hemp vs. marijuana: Deciphering the differences is full of complexities February 10, 2013
- State Lawmaker Wants To Take All Misdemeanor Offenders' DNA February 9, 2013
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“Dark and Dangerous Ground”
The Dark and Bloody Ground The popular belief that the name Kentucky means "Dark and Bloody Ground" is apparently without foundation. Yet through the years, the image has persisted in literary and oral tradition as a description of the Kentucky country. One traditional explanation sites Delaware legend in which the ancient tribe of the Lenni-Lanape allied with the Iroquois to fight the Allegewi, the original inhabitants of Kentucky. In a single bloody battle the Allegewi were virtually exterminated. The land where an entire nation had been eradicated became known as the "dark and bloody ground". The violent clashes between the Iroquois and the southern Indians only helped reinforce the image. In his book, "Historical Sketches of Kentucky" (1874), Richard H. Collins says that a northern Indian once asked Indian fighter Joseph H. Daveiss how white men could live in land that had seen so much bloodshed. The Indian said that the ghosts of those killed in the Indian wars haunted the land making it dangerous. At the execution of the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals the Cherokee Cheif Dragging Canoe is said to have told Col. Richard Henderson that the lands south of the Kentucky river were "bloody ground"and would be "dark and difficult to settle". However Ruben T. Durrett said in his book, "The Centenary of Kentucky"(1892) that the phrase was used to discourage Henderson from purchasing the land.Top Posts & Pages





