Posted on 04/13/2004 12:14:43 PM PDT by freepatriot32
Edited on 07/19/2004 2:13:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
April 9 (Bloomberg) -- You don't have to ponder the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to notice the Bush administration has trouble admitting it erred.
Consider a smaller, quieter misadventure. Consider the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's war on hemp, a harmless and healthy food source.
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A distant photo of small buds isn't exactly proof of anything.
It was a infrequent joke in college in Nebraska for some to sell the hemp leaves & buds along the road to unsuspecting folk. It took some cleaning, but the joke worked. As long as you found a city kid who knew what it should look like, but was ignorant of the fact that the whole county had been heavily invested in the raw materials for rope circa WW1.
You are talking about another 35 years of intensive horticulture since then to get the over sized buds on the current high-THC variants of the hemp plant.
Hemp is a flowering plant in all varietys, and so has flower buds in all varieties. There is a very large range of bud size and THC content.
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