Post by Julian I on Apr 20, 2008 20:16:29 GMT 1
If any staff have time, could you take another look over my reforms?
They're the first set I've written this game, but I'd appreciate it if they were taken seriously.
I can see why Annatar might think they're a piss-take, but Hemp (Cannabis Ruderalis, a plant that would do nothing but give you a headache if you smoked it) was, at this time, an essential crop - it was needed to make canvas for sails, rope for rigging, military uniforms... Altogether very important for a colonial power, to the point that Elizabeth I of England required all farmers with more than 60 acres to grow it.
As for the Sanitoriums reform, why exactly can I not use opium poppies and cannabis to treat the sick? Both plants were used medicinally at the time, and both are included in the "50 essential herbs" of Chinese medecine - the whole point of the reform is to combine Western and Eastern medical traditions. Hell, we still give patients opium today, in the form of morphine and diamorphine. Also, both plants are already in common use in Malaysia where I'm trying to set them up, and can be grown in those countries without too much difficulty.
I know staff are busy with increases, but it doesn't really seem fair to me that the reforms I spent quite a long time researching and writing should be dismissed out of hand like that.
They're the first set I've written this game, but I'd appreciate it if they were taken seriously.
I can see why Annatar might think they're a piss-take, but Hemp (Cannabis Ruderalis, a plant that would do nothing but give you a headache if you smoked it) was, at this time, an essential crop - it was needed to make canvas for sails, rope for rigging, military uniforms... Altogether very important for a colonial power, to the point that Elizabeth I of England required all farmers with more than 60 acres to grow it.
As for the Sanitoriums reform, why exactly can I not use opium poppies and cannabis to treat the sick? Both plants were used medicinally at the time, and both are included in the "50 essential herbs" of Chinese medecine - the whole point of the reform is to combine Western and Eastern medical traditions. Hell, we still give patients opium today, in the form of morphine and diamorphine. Also, both plants are already in common use in Malaysia where I'm trying to set them up, and can be grown in those countries without too much difficulty.
I know staff are busy with increases, but it doesn't really seem fair to me that the reforms I spent quite a long time researching and writing should be dismissed out of hand like that.
