Loki Loc: Georgia

As usual, the overpaid and underbrained DC bureaucracy is overlooking an obvious and workable source of a brand new industry, in collusion with short-sighted state legislatures. It's much more politically correct to use unworkable and far more complicated and expensive solutions, thereby guaranteeing emploment for otherwise useless apparatchiks.


http://www.realfarmacy.com/?s=industrial+hemp

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

I agree with you, banjo, but why be so obscure? Why not just state that you are in favor of legalizing marijuana?

Loki Loc: Georgia

Industrial hemp is not marijuana. You can smoke a truckload of the stuff and not catch a buzz. The kind that gets you high is cannabis sativa indica. I am in favor of legalization, of legally growing your own, at least, but these are two different critters. You cannot make clothing and insulation out of the smokeable stuff, nor does indica oil have the omega 3 and 6, and linoleic acid that industrial hemp provides. It really is kind of a miracle plant. (I am also in favor of legal stills, and I don't drink). I'm talking personal use here.

RetNavyCWO Loc: VA suburb of DC

I agree with you 100%, banjo!

cant beleve Loc: Planet Kolob

You bet cha. All marijuana is gonna be legal soon. The feds yesterday want the Superbowl states taxes they can get and now are saying they can do banking. Happy day oh happy dsy

Loki Loc: Georgia

I don't use drugs or tobacco either, but marijuana was legal until, I believe, around the 1930s. The point is that hemp has been used for cordage, sails, livestock sileage and clothing for thousands of years. What the hell is wrong with Congress? They pay farmers not to grow crops. How about paying them to grow something useful? Clothing made from hemp is more durable and cheaper to produce than cotton. (The Carolinas used to have a thriving textile industry). It makes a very good insulation. There is a whole industry growing out of this in the UK and other parts of Europe. Hemp will grow damn near anywhere. What is the problem? Hemp oil is a complete protein and has the same Omegas as fish oil, and it's much easier to catch.

cant beleve Loc: Planet Kolob

I've been a member of NORML for 31 years mainly for reasons you've just made while watching politicians figure how to pay for stuff. Legalized hemp first and foremost and spool many things are suddenly no longer the problems they seemed.

cant beleve Loc: Planet Kolob

Meant soo many problems

Michigan Loc: Michigan

Your a good man for bring up this subject, my favorite in the whole world, next to God. Here is some more homework for those that would care to do some more research on the subject. Presidents Washington and Jefferson both grew hemp. Americans were legally bound to grow hemp during the Colonial Era and early Republic. In 1937 Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act which effectively began the era of hemp prohibition. The tax and licensing regulations of the act made hemp cultivation unfeasable for American farmers. The chief promoter of the Tax Act, Harry Anslinger, began promoting anti-marijuana legislation around the world, and if your still need more homework look up www.JackHerer.com or next time your in a bookstore pick up "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer. Another good man to research if you just by chance are Dying of Cancer is a man by the name of Rick Simpson. The responsibility is in the mirror, go look in it. I'm just another dumb trucker that thinks I have been Duked by our own government. That's not going to stop me from loving My Lord, My Country, and Thanking every Veteran I possibly can for their service. God Bless this Great Country and if you are a Believer please pray for our Leaders of this Great Land that they will make the right choices and put our country back on the right track, before it is too late.

Michigan Loc: Michigan

Look up Henry Ford and hemp, this is mind blowing stuff.

Loki Loc: Georgia

If industrial hemp got you high, Columbus would never have discovered America; his crews would have smoked all the running rigging on the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria before they were halfway here.

cant beleve Loc: Planet Kolob

But we sure would have a groovy Thanksgiving celebration imitating the first meetings between Spain and Indians and they'd view the holiday in a positive light

Michigan Loc: Michigan

Ya, Man just like John Lennon, Louie Armstrong, or Willie Nelson just to name a few pot heads could ever write beautiful music ether man or even function in the Real World man. Just kidding I believe these stoners are or mostly or were Great People even with their addiction to this Marijuana Indica/sativa strains that they loved so, and so do many other intelligent people like Tommy Chong, Woody Harrelson, they may seem dumb but they are in my book good actors. I think if you are a smart stoner weed did not make you that way, and in the same way if you are a Lazy looser weed did not make you that way, you are who you are because you chose to be that way. And If Columbus did have a Indica/sativa strain on board do you think this government would admit it and not erase from history like so many other things they deny, after all was not America found by accident? Maybe this is the case???? He was stoned and Lost, hummmmmmmm?