[GATOR NAVY]

I'm curious as to how hemp always gets brought up in these arguements. If I'm not mistaken, this dude does not want to smoke the hemp grown for industrial use, and the specialized buds he wants to smoke aren't any good for use as hemp. So we are really talking about 2 different plants.

[Wolfie]

I think his point is that marijuana isn't some new foreign plant, and it certainly wasn't back in the 30's. If the dangers that composed the reasons for it being made illegal were true, the various acts of carnage that were attributed to mairijuana use should have been well documented by the news of the day. Only anectdotes were ever raised.

[tacticalogic]

I'm curious as to how hemp always gets brought up in these arguements. If I'm not mistaken, this dude does not want to smoke the hemp grown for industrial use, and the specialized buds he wants to smoke aren't any good for use as hemp. So we are really talking about 2 different plants.

AFAIK, "hemp" is both the plant and the fiber of the stalks. Marijuana is the buds and leaves. Hemp is also grown for seed. Typically, industrial hemp is bred to maximize the fiber and/or seed yields, with no particular attention to the THC content. As far as why it gets brought into these conversations, the official ONDCP party line is that hemp and marijuana are the same thing. At least that's what John Walters tells us.