Hemp trade nipped in the bud

The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | Sunday, August 25, 2002 | David Armstrong

[AdA$tra]

Haven't you ever heard of smokin' rope?

[decimon]

The benign uses of hemp have all been superceded by the technological development of superior alternatives. The marginal and insignificant economic impact that hemp use would have is vastly outweighed by the detrimental effects of widespread substance abuse.

Yes Comrade Commissar! We must not let market forces decide this issue. The capitalist-roader, running dogs must never again gain a foothold on this soil.

[vin-one]

you know willie, if done correctly canabis plants could completely replace the logging industry for pulp production. It is a renewable source and grows much quicker, than trees, and has many more byproducts than plain wood has. It's not always about the MJ, which by the way if that is your real issue should be legal.....

[AdA$tra]

Punny headline too.

[Wolfie]

Shoud read "Hemp Trade In America Nipped In the Bud". The rest of the world carries on wihtout us. Not to worry, I hear our farmers are doing fine.

[Willie Green]

I alway's laugh(politely) when someone touts the superior technical advancements and replacements for basic, simple, materials and equipment.

Well then you probably will have an interest in this thread: Environmentalist Laments Introduction of Electricity.

Have fun with the other "back-to-nature" technophobic luddites.

[tacticalogic]

Haven't you ever heard of smokin' rope?

Now that you mention it, I have. I've also heard of "getting baked". Maybe we need to look at banning ovens.

[Roscoe]

The marginal and insignificant economic impact that hemp use would have is vastly outweighed by the detrimental effects of widespread substance abuse.

And who doesn't realize that the "hemp" issue is just a smokescreen?

[Willie Green]

you know willie, if done correctly canabis plants could completely replace the logging industry for pulp production.

That would increase economic damage sustained by Forest Fires.
Didn't you hear Dubya's message on the subject this past weekend?
Dang! Your attention spans really ARE short, aren't they?

[weikel]

Ah I get it you are a propagandist for DuPont chemical? Hemp was briefly legalized again during WWII( the drug warriors made the same arguement with the marijuana tax act mainly written to enrich the DuPont family but when WWII came around all the sudden industrial hemp was good again).

[Willie Green]

Why don't we let the marketplace figure this out. If you are right, the industrial hemp market will dry up.

The market has already reacted and the demand for industrial hemp HAS dried up.
Advocates are merely interested in burning the dry hemp so they can inhale the smoke.

[weikel]

Yep. I knew about the DuPont angle I never knew about Hearst. BTW do you really ussually agree with what Willie post? I thought better of the dread pirate Roberts.

[weikel]

It dried up because the DuPont family and according to Bloody Sam WR Hearst wanted it off the market because they had competing products.

[headsonpikes]

"Have fun with the other 'back-to-nature' technophobic luddites'."

Where to start???

Frankly, Willie, I think you're funnin' us. Unless you're about to start ranting against all free-marketers as 'back-to-nature' sociophobic anti-socialists.

Who knows? Perhaps you might.

Your faith in government would be pathetic, were it not so pernicious.

[Willie Green]

Ah I get it you are a propagandist for DuPont chemical?

How'd you figure that out???
I've posted here for 4 years and nobody has ever suspected that I'm actually a Build-D-Burger spy, working behind the scenes to bring about a New World Order.
Now my cover is blown. Dang!

</sarcasm>

[tacticalogic]

The market has already reacted and the demand for industrial hemp HAS dried up.

And the decline in demand by manufacturers is totally in response to a decline in consumer demand, and completely unrelated to the DEA's seizing shipments in transit. When manufacturer's order materials, they really don't care if they get it it 2 weeks, or 6 months, or not at all, do they?

[vin-one]

That would increase economic damage sustained by Forest Fires. Didn't you hear Dubya's message on the subject this past weekend? Dang! Your attention spans really ARE short, aren't they?

Willie, maybe you should learn a little about forestry, rather than assume, I stoned.
the forest issue is that they were not allowed to clear out underbrush
and other dead trees which become a major fire hazard.
it had nothing to do with logging.
A waste is a terrible thing to mind......

[Roscoe]

http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/ages001E/ages001El.pdf

[BikerNYC]

All told, hemp is a $200 million-per- year business in the United States, up from $75 million in 1997, according to the Hemp Industry Association.

All dried-up businesses should have that kind of growth.

[vin-one]

very interesting Roscoe, I don't believe the USDA is being honest...

but that is for a different day...