Wish I could submit to my "quote" group at Vox.
It's always interesting to take a look at the news and see big, colourful photographs of hemp and marijuana, side by side, kind of like milk (hemp) and chocolate milk (the other stuff).
I'm not around too many folks that debate "Legalization" but it's my opinion that the hemp issue should have been settled long ago. Like other issues that effect the public at large the US is way behind :cough: Canada:cough: again.--Cyn
"There's probably more arsenic in your red wine, there's more mercury in your water and there's definitely more opiates in the poppy seed bagel you ate this morning," ~Shaun Crew, president of Hemp Oil Canada Inc., praising Canada's foresight in differentiating between hemp and marijuana. Marijuana THC levels can range between 3 and 20 percent, Canada demands its hemp contain no more than 0.3 percent.
Love some of the sloganeering here. This is priceless:
"This is actually an anti-drug. It's a healthy food," Adam Eidinger of the Washington advocacy group Vote Hemp.
Story Highlights
- Fast-growing hemp used for food, paper, textiles and car parts
- Hemp and marijuana have tetrahydrocannabinol, but the level in hemp is lower
- North Dakota is one of seven states that have OK'd production or research
- The DEA will not approve permits for two farmers in that state
Industrial hemp, left, looks a lot like its cousin in the cannabis family, marijuana.
And finally~
"I've got a state Legislature saying they aren't and the entire world saying they aren't. This is about a crop that is a legitimate crop every place else in the world," Johnson said. "It's not a crusade thing. It's a crop. Let farmers grow it. We don't want anyone to be growing drugs." North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Roger Johnson is backing the farmers and has proposed modeling North Dakota's hemp laws after Canada's strict regulations.
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives
Thank you for leaving this comment. I can't imagine the sentiments better articulated.
Posted by: Cyn | October 22, 2007 at 03:39 PM
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-65), U.S. President.
Speech, 18 Dec. 1840, to Illinois House of Representatives
Posted by: Kevin W. | October 20, 2007 at 04:28 AM