Hemp Is Not Pot: It's the Economic Stimulus We Need

alternet.org — We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it still illegal? Because as history shows, industrial Hemp was the REAL target when Cannabis was made illegal, but a racist reefer madness fear campaign would not have worked against it as well as it did 'marihuana'. Mar 26, 2009 View in Crawl 4

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hippymick Mar 26, 2009

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i think it might be good news for the farming community thoFTA""Hemp will create jobs in some of the hardest-hit sectors of the country -- rural agriculture, equipment manufacturing, transportable processing equipment and crewsits got so many different uses - paper cloth etcetc - it might be a better idea than farmers growing corn for ethanolComment is buried, click here to see the rest.

markofthedead Mar 27, 2009

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I hope that in your lifetime you outgrow your juvenile need for forcing your beliefs on other people.

cran Mar 27, 2009

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I realize none of you know that I'm very close to some very pro-hemp people. Most pro-hempers are pot-heads. Hemp is cannabis. Cannabis. I know the difference between the smoking kind and t-shirt making kind, but either way, it's cannabis. Cannabis. Hemp is pot.Saying hemp isn't pot is like arguing that vegetable oil isn't fuel. Yeah, you can't smoke hemp. But, somehow, you still can. Why is that?

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No, I call BS here. IMO they've never done an adequate job of covering pot and race, either from a present-effects standpoint OR a historical standpoint. f**k, I can even give an example. I saw a s**tload more coverage in the media about Ron Paul's 2 decade plus old newsletters than I saw about the racism of the tax and spend drugwar in the past year. Newsletters he didn't even write are irrelevant to some black dude being held in a cage for a "crime." And it only SEEMS like the anti-pot people are outnumbered when their side includes mental giants like Steven Baldwin, ok? They get the same time, but STUPID tends to show...

snypez Mar 27, 2009

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Near monopolies are called oligopolies. The fed has its place but it is out of control. Other than that I 100% agree.

lilhelper Mar 28, 2009

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Ah yes, Spend money that you have. You added something into the equation.Don't use credit. Use money that you have.

itdude472 Mar 29, 2009

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You don't know what you are talking about, hemp and marijuana are 2 different species of plant that are in the same family. It is nearly impossible to get high using hemp plants.

hempwerx Apr 20, 2009

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"The remainder of the plant — stalks and sterilized seeds — is what some people refer to as “hemp.” However, “hemp” is not a term that is found in federal law." (DEA clarifies status of Hemp in the Federal Register - 2001)"Haven't you heard it's a battle of words, The poster bearer cried..."" ...The paper holds their folded faces to the floor, And every day the paper boy brings more" (Pink Floyd - 1973)