Posted on 08/26/2002 10:29:03 AM PDT by Willie Green
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:40:49 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
America's war on drugs is roiling the small but growing industrial hemp business, throwing the industry's customers into doubt and confusion. It is also causing something of an international flap.
Caught in the middle is John Roulac, a Sebastopol businessman, who says he has found himself enmeshed in a Kafkaesque tale of circular logic and rigid, incomprehensible bureaucracy.
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Demand for hemp fiber stood at 1/2 of 1 percent of that.
Even so-called "empty" calories can be converted to usable energy.
And most alcoholic beverages (such as beer and wine) contain other, non-alcoholic nutrients.
In what way would the cultivation of hemp serve as a smokescreen for the legalization on marijuana?
You've been misled by that masonic propaganda, once again.
A truly informed "monarchist" such as yourself would know that most of the respected crowns of Europe enjoyed a little snort of liquor now and then, to aid with their digestion.
One PA farmer tried to hide 40 or 60 acres inside his corn field. I had a friend and his brothers that scattered the seeds in the woods and had a 5 lb. harvest one year stashed in the attic of their parents farmhouse to dry out. They were dealing MJ, hash and who knows what else.
Another guy (a city refugee) did the same thing from his apartment. Don't know how he made out.
The stuff grows wild in PA, but I don't know if it's any good or not. My grandparents even got a plant in a small potted flower or vegetable. They grew it for awhile, thought it was neat, until someone pointed out that they could get prosecuted -- and it wasn't good example for the grandkids.
Good point. We need to increase the fines that are levied to make this program pay for itself.
Makes sense, I wasted a lot of Trout Unlimited money testing for E coli samples in one very productive river (and others as requested). Even the headwater samples had small Bac-T counts, if I remember right bears s*** in the woods -- and so did the Indians, except the Indians drank downstream.
Nah. Socialism requires taxpayer subsidies.
I'm talking about making the WOD self-sufficient with higher fines.
Maybe we can even make it more efficient by deregulating and privatizing this facet of law enforcement.
Anybody who catches and turns in a druggie and their stash to proper authorities is entitled to all their other assets.
Something like that oughta work!
You're either an idiot or a troll. Which is it? Or was that supposed to be funny?
Hmmmmm.... must be some merit to my "privatization" plan...
looks like I struck one of the few nerves not damaged by substance abuse.
Quick, dude! Hide the stash! The neighbors might spot ya!
Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away
The pro WOD folks are trying, without much success, to plug the leaks in a sinking ship.
These leaks are occuring in foreign arenas such as Britain, Canada, and Switzerland. And leaks are occuring at home, in areas such as State medical marijuana laws and legalization referenda in AZ and NV.
Personally, I think you all would have a better chance if you went back to the lurid films of the 30's.
At least they had women taking off their clothes and going for a midnight swim in the ocean!
OTOH, I am not ruling out my alternative explanation that you might just be an idiot.
Are you also going to apologise to the rest of us constitutional conservatives who also hold that this is a useless and dangerous abuse of government power, but who resent your slanderous druggie label.
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