Like this for example. 
Posted on 10/13/2009 3:59:55 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — Farmers from North Dakota and Vermont and four others trying to plant hemp seeds at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Administration have been arrested.
Arlington County police spokeswoman Detective Crystal Nosal says six people were charged with trespassing on Tuesday. They were among 21 people protesting the ban on farming of hemp, which is related to the illegal drug marijuana.
The Hemp Industries Association says the protesters turned to civil disobedience for the first time. The group is lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill. They want to grow hemp for non-drug products.
North Dakota farmer Wayne Hauge and Vermont farmer Will Allen were among those arrested. Police say they had shovels in hand but did not appear to have any drugs and caused only minor damage to the lawn.
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Seems like people are not free to make a living growing what they want...why does government have to make everything so hard for the working class?
Glad to see the government is keeping us safe from these dangerous criminals. Of course the murderers, rapists, armed robbers, carjackers and street thugs all walk free.
Not to mention all the rope, sails, clothing, etc. on the ships which Columbus and friends sailed to America on.
I am incorrect in thinking that hemp can’t make a person high the way MJ does? Wrong or right, do you know?
The gubberment must insure that the plant remaines illegal because so many jobs are created due to its illegality.
Freegards
Like this for example.
The funny thing is that you can buy hemp products legally in America. You just can’t produce it here.
Its kinda like CFLs an incandescent lights. First ban the incandescent bulbs, then ban making CFLs here.
Sometimes I think it's a North vs South thing.
Hemp and the MJ are the same plant.
If you plant the individual stalks close together, you get MJ. If you space them further apart (I don’t know the exact distance, but, apparently George Washington did) you get hemp.
(Apparently, according to his diary, GW about smoking Marijuana)
My understanding is the hemp production industry is a potential billion dollar industry. Unfortunately, the war on some drugs is too profitable for LE, the IRS (seizures), and the prison industry, so the US economy is unable to benefit.
a very high quality paper can be made from it as well.
and it’s not even rolling paper...
I agree.... Industrial hemp fibre is great stuff. We should be dumping cotton and going for hemp. It could be grown all over the USA and would be a good crop using waste water from sewer plants.
If only Barney’s name was attached to that bill.
Hemp seed is a great source of livestock feed and can be processed into fuels. Its really a wonder plant.
Right. You couldn't smoke enough of industrial hemp to get high.
Thanks to the mentally challenged DEA, the US is the only country on the planet that outlaws the growing of hemp. Pretty embarassing for the US. It is like having a retarded inlaw in charge.
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