Posted on 07/04/2013 8:00:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Fireworks won’t be the only thing flying high over the Capitol during the Fourth of July celebration.
An American flag made of hemp, a non-psychoactive variant of marijuana, will be flown over the Capitol on July 4 for one day.
Industrial hemp–which is considered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be a Schedule I substance along with ecstasy and heroin–is a type of cannabis plant that cannot legally be grown in the U.S. but is legally imported and used in hundreds of products ranging from rope to clothing.
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What specifically do you find wrong with it? America’s first flag was hemp. I don’t understand why it bothers you.
From the article:
“Many of our founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson and George Washington grew hemp,” Polis said. “Many of the very first American flags were made from hemp cloths. So there’s a real tie in to our countries history and the important rule industrial hemp played in agriculture in our country.”
The first American flag made by Betsy Ross was made from industrial hemp.
Should THEY have been "strung up"??
The last thing I give a shit about today is marijuana...
Denying someone the use of their property is a taking of that property and violates the 5th Amendment.
Marijuana was outlawed at the same time as Prohibition, all by the “we know better” abolitionists. Only true reason it wasn’t legalized with beer is that the distillers and bars had a much stronger lobby.
It is still illegal today because the states make so much money on seizing cars, money, homes without true due process, on the basis of drug money. Prosecutors can say, see, we’re tough on crime by sending pot users to jail.
Waste of taxpayer money.
I still don’t see the need to fly a damn flag.
Not even on Independence Day?? Go raise fly your d*mn bag. Then stick it over your head.
WHY! does anything surprise you anymore? :)
inhale, exhale... hemp is like, peace and love man.. We need more hemp, man.. you can keep the hemp and we’ll take the buds off your hands man..
Wrong...
Denying someone the use of their property is a taking of that property and violates the 5th Amendment.
You should be able to grow opium poppies if you want to.
It's ALL about Police State/.guv control. Hemp is a legit material.
EXACTLY!
Denying someone the use of their property is a taking of that property and violates the 5th Amendment.
You should be able to grow opium poppies if you want to.
Denying someone the use of their property is a taking of that property and violates the 5th Amendment.
You should be able to grow opium poppies if you want to.
You got it all wrong, it is a private property matter.
Private property rights...
Denying someone the use of their property is a taking of that property and violates the 5th Amendment.
You should be able to grow opium poppies if you want to.
Given it's many uses, it's more likely the flag pole rope was made from hemp, but the flag could have been also.
I think the last time hemp was officially mass cultivated was in WW-2 for rope and probably other industrial uses as well in support of the war effort, but we've declared war on it since.
Considering how many valuable things each contain and uses plants like hemp and tobacco offer, it's interesting how we only focus on what we want to and ignore the rest.
How great the ignorance to automatically reject what one knows nothing about? And, then force others to abide by that ignorance and/or those fears?
"Mind your business," as Franklin said.
Anybody here smoking or shooting up industrial hemp or rope lately?? MAYBE somebody will roll up this American Flag like a doobie....then smoke IT.
*snicker*
I did not know that!
Thanks for furthering my education-—LOL!
“Why not?
Hemp is stronger and more durable than cotton.
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It sure beats all of the “U.S.” flags people import from China.
I don’t give a damn about the history of a specific plant... it is a canard...
Denying someone the use of their property is a taking of that property and violates the 5th Amendment.
You should be able to grow opium poppies if you want to.
This all boils down to the individual rights of property owners.
Okay.
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