washingtonindependent.com — Well, you might have a bit more if Reps. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Ron Paul (R-Texas) get their way. The two lawmakers have plans to reintroduce legislation to legalize the domestic farming of industrial hemp, a genetic but non-psychoactive relative of marijuana.
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fiatfauxApr 2, 2009
Senator Barnie Frankly "sucks", & helped shove Freddy's Mack up our Fannie!but as the officially Distinguished Chairboy of the Senate Banking Committee...Frank recognizes the potential of rebudding a home-grown green growth industry!Re-legalizing hemp will give his Senate Banking Committee MEGA-BILLION$ offresh green to appropriate, without Big Ben BERNIE'S FED killing every last tree!!
frankyfan3Apr 2, 2009
The Squeaky Wheel gets the grease ;)
cxrfreemanApr 3, 2009
The emperor wears no clothes.
Closed AccountApr 3, 2009
I was just speaking to a delivery driver the other day. He says he watches TV news nightly. He knew NOTHING about hemp. 0.0 Nada. Squat. His ignorance was so amazing it almost seemed deliberate, but he wasn't a neoprohibitionist. He was just a result of the public education system and the media. He could not believe that hemp has fiber like cotton, only stronger softer & more-absorbent. He didn't know the Founders grew the stuff (and separated the male & female plants!).Anyway, the bottom line is this: Until the tax & spend drugwar quits costing me ANY money on April 15th, I hereby pledge to digg EVERY pot story no matter how many go to the front page. Furthermore, I pledge to bury ALL comments whining about how many stories about this stupid hemp bulls**t make the front page. The delivery driver's ignorance cemented my informal policy. It's now formal.
johnehubertzApr 4, 2009
...I'm assuming pretty much everybody who isn't a multinat citizen or Govt elected person has by now visited the Cato site or whatever and read the Dec of Indy and the Bill o Rights, yeah?Ok.... and now we know it was an anti-government government, and that everything was to be approved 100% at the tiny hamlet and city and county level before even a STATE (which is sovereign btw) could pass a LAW.Now, rational things - building a school (not the books, the school) by states or maybe universities by feds....constitutionalSame with highways, and of course pollution and no dumping in rivers etc....But, regulation of commerce like licensing (Indiana LICENSE law is a bookshelf 13 ft 4" long I measured it at my atty's office earlier) NOT and never was and never will be legal - totally and specifically it is unCONSTITUTIONAL except at local levels - but maybe just maybe State licenses for maybe airplane or truck drivers, but not barbers or lawyers or etc etc etc even doctors - local control. All power belongs to you, and only if your neighbors get tired of you setting off fireworks at midnight in the nude on top of police cars can they make a law against it. You know what - common sense would be the best law - in about 99% of the cases, if business interest wasn't allowed. Pharmacy regulations - where a druggist can't sell drugs - if he is city or county licensed as a good guy at that? Nope. Hell, my Uncle was a pharmacist, and he dispensed drugs - he'd call the doc, the doc could write notes, but he had the right to sell or not sell. Common sense. If the doc wasn't available and a guy has a busted leg, sell him some vicodin. Common sense.Those are neat documents - I have a Master's in communications etc.... And the neat thing is the wordsmithing - I'm a word guy - and believe me, they cooked and smelted and welded those words to those documents. Unalterable, undeniable and not subject to interpretation as a nine year old can see the intent from the tip of the Declaration of Independence to the last of the Bill of RIGHTS. RIGHTS are one level above laws. THEY ARE THE LAWS FOR THE LAWMAKERS AND THAT IS HOW THEY PUT IT THEN.Now folks - for the kids - peace prosperity and freedom, and no more terror- governments blaming and sending overflights with our kids in them to other countries - to start another tasty distracting war. What I still don't understand is how such a condition exists - it is worse then child molesting or murder, the evil bully-government and business influence has wrought in the last 300 years is sickening.
johnehubertzApr 4, 2009
Unity is not odd.Anybody who cares about kids sees the pot issue as the kind of speedometer... on whether the govt thinks of us even a little anymore.The answer is already no - only the viral momentum of screams from every single rational mouth has them waking up and calling Eli Lilly and Phillip Moris etc - to find out how to react.My government puhhhhhhhleeeeeeeez (give me a f*kin break)evil MalCorp owned SPAMlaw asshats - yep, that fits good.