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[Stephanie739]

Am I and the DEA the only ones that realizes the potential abuse of growing hemp in light of the fact it resembles pot?

What's wrong? Will your tax payer provided income be jeopardized if cannabis prohibition is lifted?

 

[Stephanie739]

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9586 We need cannabis based medicines too, to help with health cost. God gave the people this plant.

You can search the National Institute of Health for just about any ailment and the wondrous ability of cannabis to treat it. http://www.nih.gov/ (key word: cannabinoids - "any of a group of related compounds that include cannabinol and the active constituents of cannabis")

 

[cassie]

Hemp is a very useful plant. The seed makes an excellent feed. I think it is found in some cage bird seed mixes. Hemp is used for rope, and certain varieties make some of the best fabric in the world. It is similar to linen, but it is soft and clothing made from it lasts forever. By the way, the hemp that is best for fabric doesn't have enough of the joy juice in it to make anyone very high. Interestingly enough, I recently read where Israel has developed a variety of Marijuana (sp) that retains pharmaceutical benefits, but won't get the user high.

There are places in the midwest where hemp grows wild. Years ago, some governmental agency or other came up with what seemed like a great way to control it. They put goats on a field of hemp. The trial showed great promise. The goats ate the hemp down to ground level. However, the next year the field produced a bumper crop of hemp. Trouble was, the seeds went through the goats' digestive tracts undigested and came out the other end in those little round pellets of fertilizer that the goats deposited generously throughout the field. The best laid plans of mice and men.....

 

[Royd]

Well I am trying to get them to switch to hemp and leave the corn for the food supply. We also need to end the mandates. I have faith in the American public to work towards a cleaner, more sustainable future without the government making them.

I think most all the dems supported this.

We could all just eat brownies...Don't they make brownies from hemp?

 

[Royd]

Just curious. How many of you "Hemp" proponents have copies of High Times fanned out on your coffee table?

 

[chickened]

What's wrong? Will your tax payer provided income be jeopardized if cannabis prohibition is lifted?

Seeing how I am in the land clearing business and hemp will grow in marginal farm ground I welcome it in that regard. And like any other crop that has not found it's way to self sustainability in the free market the government will undoubtedly subsidize it.

 

[chickened]

http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9586 We need cannabis based medicines too, to help with health cost. God gave the people this plant.

You can search the National Institute of Health for just about any ailment and the wondrous ability of cannabis to treat it. http://www.nih.gov/ (key word: cannabinoids - "any of a group of related compounds that include cannabinol and the active constituents of cannabis")

I think the researchers are using a little too much of their specimens.

 

[chickened]

Hemp is a very useful plant. The seed makes an excellent feed. I think it is found in some cage bird seed mixes. Hemp is used for rope, and certain varieties make some of the best fabric in the world. It is similar to linen, but it is soft and clothing made from it lasts forever. By the way, the hemp that is best for fabric doesn't have enough of the joy juice in it to make anyone very high. Interestingly enough, I recently read where Israel has developed a variety of Marijuana (sp) that retains pharmaceutical benefits, but won't get the user high.

There are places in the midwest where hemp grows wild. Years ago, some governmental agency or other came up with what seemed like a great way to control it. They put goats on a field of hemp. The trial showed great promise. The goats ate the hemp down to ground level. However, the next year the field produced a bumper crop of hemp. Trouble was, the seeds went through the goats' digestive tracts undigested and came out the other end in those little round pellets of fertilizer that the goats deposited generously throughout the field. The best laid plans of mice and men.....

Won't garner many petition signatures promoting that aspect.

 

[Stephanie739]

Then why grow it? The farmland is too valuable and if it were a good cash crop it would be legal most likely. Enforcement would be a nightmare in trying to distinguish a hemp field from a few well placed pot plants.

The marijuana tax act of 1937 (the beginning of prohibition) was a plastics and paper corporate response to the inexpensive (earth friendly) substitute. The corporations were going to lose money to the hemp competition, so with the help of the newspapers (go figure!) the anti cannabis propaganda began. Its been a corrupt war since its inception and the true abuse is found on the side of drug war enforcers.

 

[chickened]

The marijuana tax act of 1937 (the beginning of prohibition) was a plastics and paper corporate response to the inexpensive (earth friendly) substitute. The corporations were going to lose money to the hemp competition, so with the help of the newspapers (go figure!) the anti cannabis propaganda began. Its been a corrupt war since its inception and the true abuse is found on the side of drug war enforcers.

You must remember that farmers get subsidies also and they grow crops that make money AND ones that are not difficult or controversial. I really think if money was in it everyone would be growing it and if everyone was growing it there would not be much money in it. That is just the way it works.