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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You know, marijuana can be ingested through food, or ’smoked’ through a vaprozier, both of which have nil effects on the lungs!
Although i do agree with legalizing both hemp and marijuana (stupid industrialist deforesting the world, cotton, etc when hemp can and have solved all those needs for thousands of years), and the fact that God put plants here for us to use.. However, i don’t necessarily agree with smoking copious amounts of marijuana.. Marijuana makes you stupid (while on it), and if you believe in God, i think it makes you weak to spiritual attack. You’re basically giving anything (demon or not) the right to come near or into you. So to the above poster, if you believe in God - heck if you smoke a lot of bud, be careful.. The enemy is real. Also, to the argument of plants are God’s domain etc, well, what about the fact that there are hundreds of poisonus mushrooms out there, or the fact that there is food out there that will kill you if consumed/smoked it or what have you. Just because God put it here doesn’t mean you have to consume it.. just a thought.
If she hates law so much, Ms. Horselady can go to Somalia and experience the nature of anarchy first hand.
Never smoked it myself, free thinker though I am, but son, you go ahead and smoke your asses off because I don’t care and I ain’t gonna try to stop you. I’m not giving you permission, it’s your right as human beings to stay nicely toasted, as long as you don’t threaten my or mine, or ask me for a handout if you fail to take care of yourself.
Nobody in recorded history has ever died from smoking pot. Your concerns about its affects on the lungs is unfounded. Certainly pot smoke is not HELPING a person’s lungs, but again — zero recorded deaths.
Arguments against pot legalization are equally unfounded and biased. Rock on to these kids for making a statement, even if it was the most productive thing they did all week.
Big No from me. Few of my friends were smoking a lot of it and become really different (even the look) in just few years.
God created the elements, and the formulas to change those elements into every non-naturally forming compound, cocaine, lsd, mdma, wait a minute, this article isn’t about god, its about hemp laws and restricting the production of possibly dangerous psychoactive chemicals. I am going to have to agree with the author, hemp is one of the most versatile plants on this planet, to not farm it would be throwing away a very inexpensive tool. There are plastic replacements made of hemp, go green.
Don’t forget god is a fictitious character…..lol Religion if based on fantasy fiction and has been a much bigger burden on men and women then any stupid anti pot laws…. Yes the laws need reworking or even be dumped but don’t involve god that just leads to a lot of innocent people getting hurt….
Pot laws and god talk are evil cousins.. (((yuck)))
I agree. Cannabis has been proven to kill cancer cells within rats. I think the reason Weed and Hemp are banned is because hemp is useful, clothes made by hemp can last 100years easily, so the clothe industry would lose money. Remember, weed has been legal WAY longer than it’s been illegal.
Amen!