The DEA is cracking down on hempseed oil in tortilla chips

Post-Gazette ^ | December 09, 2001 | Ann McFeatters

[Pay now bill Clinton]

WASHINGTON - And now, for something completely different, to borrow a phrase from Monty Python.

The three earnest young men burdened with plastic bags came to the office bearing food. Pretzels with seeds. A snack bar. An energy bar. Tortilla chips.

[Pay now bill Clinton]

Your tax dollars at work.

[dead]

Oh, I guess now that we've rid the world of terrorism, disease, and socialism, we can conconcentrate on the really important stuff.

[alpowolf]

This was posted a day or two ago. But I don't mind seeing it again. I'm still waiting to see how the Holy Drug Crusaders defend the War On Pretzels.

They had better ban potato chips too. Potato chips are the gateway drug to pretzels.

[Dakmar]

They'll never get my Cheesey-Poofs while I'm alive.

[Lumberjack]

Amazing.

Yet another bureaucratic buffoon who thinks she owns We the People, and acts accordingly.

[Labyrinthos]

The bureacratic taliban lives on.

[Lysander]

... food with hempseeds sends a pro-drug message to children and is camouflage for a campaign to legalize marijuana.

Oh boy, they would rather send a "stupidity" message to the kids. I want government to do what it is supposed to do. Being stupid is not it.

[Orangedog]

Sooner or (obviously) later this country is going to have to start taking a more pragmatic approach to the drug issue. This is a waste of resources. Personally I don't see the appeal of ingesting something that makes me goofy, hungry and tired...I have a job that does that for me. But I hate seeing tax dollars going down the 'war on drugs' rat-hole.

[LarryLied]

Your tax dollars at work.

No...our advertising dollars at work. Left Wing Affirmative Action idiots combing through everything the Feds do to find this nonsense.

[Leto]

Sounds like this hempseed oil is more heart friendly than other oils (the crap in margarine for example). So we can eat the bad stuff which causes heart attacks, but we can't eat the good stuff cuase we might get high if we eat 1 million tortilla chips....... You gotta be kiddin.

[Bommer]

Hutchinson says, "Many Americans do not know that hemp and marijuana are both parts of the same plant and that hemp cannot be produced without producing marijuana."

This is one serious idiot in a job he is overwealmingly unqualified for! They are not the same plant! Hemp part of the Marijuana family, but has vertually no THC. This PR garbage sounds like it came from the film "Reefer Madness!" In order to get a good joint buzz, you would have to smoke about 1/4 of an acre of hemp.

[dead]

Left Wing Affirmative Action idiots combing through everything the Feds do to find this nonsense.

Yeah. Best we peons who pay the bills not know about such embarrassing efforts.

[Lazamataz]

Oh, I guess now that we've rid the world of terrorism, disease, and socialism, we can conconcentrate on the really important stuff.

Any time I hear the word 'pot', it makes me feel a little high.

We need to ban the word.

[Orangedog]

I's like to see a heavily accented hispanic lookalike to the obese, good-natured sgt. in the original Zorro series advertise this one on my TV. Crunching and munching his doritos! For diversity's sake in America.

The Freeto Bandito!

[tacticalogic]

I guess those poppy seeds on your hamburger bun are next.

[MissAmericanPie]

You have got to be kidding me. Do they just sit around up there in D.C. looking for something controversial and damaging to heap on the public? She should be ran out town on a rail, but she blends so well with the rest of the D.C. abominables.

[Smedley]

The DEA is too stupid to stem the flow of cocaine from Columbia or heroin from Central Asia, so they have to crack down on Hempseed and Hempoil products.

Laugh -- but I see the DEA coming after your poppy-seed bagels next!

[Orangedog]

but I see the DEA coming after your poppy-seed bagels next!

Nah, the poppy-seed bagel people are a voting constituancy.