10,000 Pot Smokers Have Marijuana Smoke-Out While DEA Says No To Industrial Hemp
Anyone See The Irony Here?
You’ve probably read the story about an estimated 10,000 people gathered on the University of Colorado’s Norlin Quadrangle Sunday, puffing joints till the air turned blue. University police stood by to maintain order, but no one was busted for smoking pot.
In the meantime, the DEA is staunchly defending its policy against American farmers legally growing industrial hemp, citing the law that says all hemp is marijuana.
How’s your war on drugs coming along, anyway, DEA? The sun is shining, and if you’d pull your heads out, you’d see it. Pot is here, lots of it available, if this number of people can show up and get loaded on just one day in one city and no one is arrested.
Where did these pot-heads get their stuff, it surely didn’t come out of a couple of bags, and there was apparently enough to go around to get some 10,000 heads high. How many more smoke-outs were held on April 20th, the annual, internationally recognized celebration of marijuana? How many tons of pot went puff?
Now I’m not in favor of marijuana, primarily because of its affect on the lungs. Pot heads will tell you there’s no danger, but the cigarette companies told us that decades ago, and a lot of us are dying of COPD everyday.
My point here is that while these young people are getting loaded on an illegal drug in public as cops stand by, two farmers in North Dakota are trying desperately to legally grow industrial hemp. Their fight is now in Federal Appeals Court, hoping to overturn a lower court’s decision upholding the DEA’s position.
You can read more about the campaign to legalize industrial hemp cultivation in the U.S. at Vote Hemp.
Farmers in Vermont are ramping up their efforts to the the government to allow farmers there to grow hemp, and other states have passed, or are considering legislation to change the law.
Currently before congress is H.R. 1009, (PDF) the “Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007″
Why have legal hemp? It’s one of the most useful plants on earth. It’s been cultivated for thousands of years and used for everything from food and medicine to clothing and automobile parts. It’s grown legally in many countries, except in the US, so to take advantage of the many products made from hemp, we must import them.
So what can we do to get the government to change it’s position on hemp? Do you think it will ever change?
Source: Daily Camera
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UPDATE: We’re so pleased that so many of you are chiming in on this topic, and have created a discussion forum for this topic. Come by, and continue to chime in…
Forget about the morons who want to kill americans, but who also supply high quality weed.
The best thing that could ever happen is to buy a bag of weed with a label stating “MADE in the USA”!!!!!
All we need to start with is the seeds. I think we’re set.
So all you folks with the DEA (I know you’re just doing your job) try to concentrate on the Meth and Cocaine and drugs that ARE a public threat!!!!
Leave WEED and WEED USERS and growers alone “PLEASE”!!!!
this article has made me feel so positive knowing that this was capable of being done in such an orderly manner. what a great step for the future.
…a new study declared that Pot doesn’t cause lung cancer at all…if fact, they theorize that THC somehow PROTECTS You from the disease.
WOULD LOVE TO DO THIS IN WASHINGTON DC! Like we use to do all the time in the 70’s and 80’s! maybe they will get the point. Could possibly accommadate a million plus people. and suggest April 20 to do it!
It is true that inhaling SMOKE from anything burning is harmful to the airways. It causes tiny leasions and does cause damage that leads to many diseases. However, Marijauna is not smoked as often on a daily basis. For example, Even if you smoke Pot every day, Multiple times a day- It still does not equate the number of ciggarettes the average smoker consumes each day. You smoke Pot until you achieve your goal- Which is getting high. Ciggarettes are more frequently smoked throughout the day. Also, there are 11 known Chemical additives that are individually known to cause cancer. So on top of inhaling smoke which causes microscopic tears on your airways, your also inhaling multiple deadly cancer causing chemicals at the same time. But isn’t it funny how Ciggarettes are the only product available for public consumption that is NOT REQUIRED to provide an ingredients lable? Now WHY would you think that is???
Hey yeah btw weed doesn’t hurt your lungs, it is true what the companies say but it makes you WAY MORE SENSITIVE to the smoke of cigarettes. Marijuana has never caused a death ON RECORD, IT IS A FACT. NO ONE DIES FROM MARIJUANA WHO DOES NOT SMOKE CIGARETTES. EVER. LOOK IT UP. However, someone who smokes marijuana is more liable to die of certain lung related diseases. Also, marijuana can give you short and long-term bronchitis if used very irresponsibly, but this cannot be lethal and is more like a constant sore throat. But I’m down with your hemp thing.
PEACE