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Hemp Flag to Fly Over Capitol on Fourth of July
ABC News ^ | July 4, 2013 | by Garrett Bruno

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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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 5thamendment; cannibis; hemp; libertarians; marijuana; medicalmarijuana; privateproperty; tyranny
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To: EEGator

Didn’t read much of the article, assumed it was a statement on legalizing pot.


61 posted on 07/04/2013 11:50:05 AM PDT by tioga
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To: EEGator

I DID read that it was industrial hemp...blah blah.....but, thanks for clarifying anyway.


62 posted on 07/04/2013 11:52:57 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

No, it’s rather different. Anyway, Happy Fourth of July. :)


63 posted on 07/04/2013 11:52:59 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Happy 4th to you and yours. We just got some rain, but I am thinking it will pass soon.


64 posted on 07/04/2013 11:54:16 AM PDT by tioga
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To: tioga

Hopefully so. You have to barbecue outside on the Fourth.


65 posted on 07/04/2013 12:08:54 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: USS Johnston

Uh, I’m talking about a MJ flag.

I accept your apology.


66 posted on 07/04/2013 12:12:20 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: EEGator
Probably stronger and longer lasting than a cotton flag. I would guess cheaper, easier to grow and less labor intensive to prep and spin the fibers into that more durable, but less comfortable thread.

I saw something, History channel?, about how slavery would have just gone away all by itself over a fairly short time, but the sudden popularity of cotton just as suddenly made slavery very necessary and very popular, which made cotton more profitable and desirable, and hemp much less so, in fact, effectively banned all the way into obscurity.

There's a weird sort of circular irony(?) in there somewhere, if some fear of black Americans somehow justified the reason to make hemp illegal after what cotton's success put us all through, that has even lead to this war on drugs, common sense and the Bill of Rights.

Where the hell is that Reset button?!? We need to reboot this conversation.

67 posted on 07/04/2013 12:12:46 PM PDT by GBA (Our obamanation: Animal Farm meets 1984 in A Brave New World. Crony capitalism, chaos and control.)
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

Agree 100%!!!!! It is also completely perverse that I can drink all day on July 4th (I’m not drinking all day!)& people can’t smoke marijuana. That I will never understand.

Happy 4th!


68 posted on 07/04/2013 12:17:26 PM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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To: USS Johnston

I should have been clearer—A flag with a MJ leaf on it.

I read it wrong.


69 posted on 07/04/2013 12:17:54 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: GBA

70 posted on 07/04/2013 12:30:17 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: SpeakerToAnimals

Hate to burst your bubbler, but illegal drugs from cartels still flood Colorado and other states.

Alcohol is legal but still we have illicit trade in it.

Cartels won’t simply walk away and haven’t.


71 posted on 07/04/2013 12:48:54 PM PDT by Hulka
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To: TribalPrincess2U
Uh, I’m talking about a MJ flag.

I accept your apology.

You should spank you yourself for your ambiguous comment, then apologize. TO YOURSELF.

;-)

72 posted on 07/04/2013 12:55:47 PM PDT by USS Johnston (Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains & slavery? - Patrick Henry)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Apology accepted.


73 posted on 07/04/2013 12:56:47 PM PDT by USS Johnston (Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains & slavery? - Patrick Henry)
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To: Mouton
Just my suspicion and definitely no disrespect to any of our Founding Fathers was intended.

Thank you, Sir.

74 posted on 07/04/2013 12:58:06 PM PDT by USS Johnston (Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains & slavery? - Patrick Henry)
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To: stockpirate

exactly..


75 posted on 07/04/2013 1:54:26 PM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: USS Johnston

:>)


76 posted on 07/04/2013 6:30:09 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

Glad you took that in the same humor it was given :-)


77 posted on 07/07/2013 5:45:18 AM PDT by USS Johnston (Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be bought at the price of chains & slavery? - Patrick Henry)
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