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.
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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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hey horsewoman, any violation of mans laws is a sin,sin separates us from God, so sinner, (you) if you don’t like the united states of America and its laws go to Russia they’ll be glad to HAVE you…a couple of weeks, and you’ll be crying like a little whipped pup to come back, what we have here is a clear cut case of idiotitis at it’s finest…do not defile the temple, the body which is to be a living sacrificial temple…open mouth overload ass….
Christian, American and proud of it !
Why should hemp not be legal. Thomas Jefferson and George Washington both had hemp crops since they could use it for clothes and rope. Plus it is a weed that grows wild in much of the country. Ask anyone over the age of 60 who grew up on a midwest farm what happened when the horses got into it. Besides, more usable pulp per acre can be used than both cotten and timber for paper. Also the clothes are softer and last longer. Look at civil war hemp clothes vs. cotten ones. Cotten ones disintegrate where the hemp can still be worn.
Finally its oils produce natural pesticides and herbicides. Funny that it doesnt just cause the pests to get lazy and pig out (ha). Also, the DEA never wanted to regulate it since it was a FUCKING WEED and not worth their time originally. Fuck this crap, I can run my car on that stuff.
I would also like to add I have never partaken, but I am smart enough to realize it doesnt do much except slows people down for a bit and it has tons of practical purposes.
Support HR 5843 “An Act to Remove Federal Penalties for the Personal Use of Marijuana by Responsible Adults”! Write your congressman, tell him you want to end this meaningless war on drugs…if you can even consider pot a “drug”!
All the pot heads love to talk about harmless and helpful pot is. It cures disease, whitens your teeth, and gives you minty fresh breath too! It does a million and one good things and nothing bad. What the potheads fail to mention is the persistent hacking cough that most of them get from all the tar building up in their lungs. Look at how dirty your bong is. What do you think the inside of your lungs look like? The potheads also fail to mention the lack of drive and ambition that comes from being high all the time. They sit around and talk about saving the world and doing all this great stuff. But, the only time they get off the couch is to go buy some ice cream, twinkies and funyuns over at the 7-11. Pot kills your ambition and drive and makes you lazy and stupid. But, you feel like $10,000,000 in your mind… so it must be doing something good for you. Right? Wrong.
I support legalized industrial hemp and I think it is a shame that our farmers are prohibited from producing it the way that other countries can. We are only hurting ourselves. There are great things that you can produce with hemp too. Oil. Plastic. Fiber. Clothing. It’s just an amazing plant!
But, don’t let the potheads fool you into thinking that marijuana is a harmless drug. It will crush your motivation faster than the IRS giving you an audit on Monday morning. Get high on being alive… not on drugs. You only have 20-60 years of life left. Use those years to do something worthwhile.
Genesis 1:29
If this country was founded on christian belief , then there’s no question about what needs to be done , Good blessed cannabis and gave it to us to use in all it’s glory , Jesus used it in oils to heal and for ritualistic purposes.
“New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;
King James Bible
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
American King James Version
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
American Standard Version
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:
Bible in Basic English
And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:
Douay-Rheims Bible
And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat:
Darby Bible Translation
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb producing seed that is on the whole earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree producing seed: it shall be food for you;
English Revised Version
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat:
GOD’S WORD® Translation (©1995)
God said, “I have given you every plant with seeds on the face of the earth and every tree that has fruit with seeds. This will be your food.
Jewish Publication Society Tanakh
And God said: ‘Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed–to you it shall be for food;
Webster’s Bible Translation
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food.
World English Bible
God said, “Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.
Young’s Literal Translation
And God saith, ‘Lo, I have given to you every herb sowing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree sowing seed, to you it is for food;”
Sir,
You are on the right page with this, but I’d like to make a comment. You need to be on the right paragraph as well.
Your primary objection to marijuana is false. It’s not your fault. It’s a very commonly repeated one.
It’s a fallacy to compare marijuana with cigarettes. No, it’s not good to breathe smoke into your lungs. But marijuana and cigarettes are different animals. Except in extreme, Rasta-style marijuana users, many tobacco smokers smoke more tobacco in a day than marijuana smokers do in a month. Tobacco is also violently addictive, supposedly more addictive than crack or heroin.
Marijuana technology has also increased dramatically. Vapor pipes and vaporizers “cook” the pot instead of burning it. With a vaporizer you get hardly any particulate matter, and only a slight whiff of aromatic oil. The bad stuff stays in the plant matter and the sweet, sweet goodness goes right to your head where it belongs.
It’s also possible to ingest marijuana in food or in tea, thereby bringing the threat level down to that of chamomile. Without the artificial scarcity caused by drug laws, this would be a far more common method.
In short, the health argument is a complete and utter red herring. These people are not talking about making cigarettes or alcohol illegal, though together they kill more than FIVE MILLION PEOPLE PER YEAR and cause untold stress on the health system.
The War on Drugs has nothing to do with your health. It has nothing to do with preventing crime or terrorism; in fact, the WOD only benefits crime groups and terror networks from Bogota to Kabul.
The War on Drugs is about social control. It provides the government with a rightless class, perfect to provide jobs for jackbooted paramilitary cops and slave labor in a rapidly growing system of jails that resembles the Soviet gulags.
Consider this: the War on Drugs is important enough to some people that they are willing to prevent sick people from taking it. The state effectively tells glaucoma sufferers THAT THEY MUST GO BLIND rather than ingest an herb.
I applaud your position on hemp, but please sir, do some research into the health implications of marijuana. The more I know about this, the more it makes me sick and ashamed to be an American. The War on Drugs is a relic of 1930s and Cold War paranoia and fascism. It’s time to end it.
I’ve never read your writing before, but you apparently have a voice somewhere. We need your help. Legalization of hemp and legalization of medical and recreational marijuana are not different things. They’re the same thing.
I think what we’re smelling in Colorado and California is change. More states will follow.
Following that logic, since it is “God’s” plant, “God” probably never intended for us to smoke it. No other creature on Earth (that we know of at least) can create and manipulate fire. Furthermore, other than humans, I don’t believe I can run out of fingers counting the number of creatures that actually enjoy the effects of a plant’s self-defense mechanisms.
Spice, for instance, is a protective device plants use to keep animals from killing and eating the plant, but humans (I for one) literally get high off spicy food. I doubt most animals enjoy the mind-altering effects of hallucinogenic plants as well.
I agree that plants that have a proven use should be grown and used for those purposes, especially hemp which literally cannot get you high - you have to smoke too much to actually get any effect from it. But smoking pot is probably not what your “God” intended to be done to the plant. It’s literally the same as running over a skunk, putting it on top of a campfire, and sniffing the odor in hopes to get high.
pothead…
well said!
What about cookies, vaporizor’s etc. If your only basis is due to smoke, that is no basis at all. While I understand the hemp problem, to me its always been the constitutional/freedom problem.
How can you say that you are free but at the same time say its ok for the state to come into your home, into your body, into your mind, and imprison you for a mental state? That concept and individual liberty can not coexist.