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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get rid of the risk of lung damage all together , your article is stupid and biased, there a many ways to induce the relaxing feeling marijuana , ever heard of a steam vaporizer which is GOOD for your lungs , or eat it?
i would like to correct something that’s erroneous in this article. almost 2 yrs ago now ucsd published and a study that found that heavy habitual pot smokers had no more chance at developing lung cancer than a non smoker. which was opposite of what the scientists/dr’s were expecting. but what really blew their minds was that most of the subjects also smoked ciggerettes so they theorized that they would have a higher (no pun intended) chance of cancer but they did not. the scientists theorized that one of the dozens varients of thc found in pot somehow prevented things like tar (which there about twice as much in pot as tobacco) and other carcinogens from adhering to lung tissue. the scientists are now engaged in a study to find out why lung cancer isn’t as prevelant amoung pot smokers as it is with tobacco smokers. so put that in your pipe and smoke it.
uh…i think you might want to check you facts. Pot smoke has never caused a single case of lung cancer, in fact there are studies that have shown that it has quite the opposite effect.
You can always vaporize or eat weed
Vaporizing is much more efficient as well!
hahahaha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think hemp should be legalized world wide. It is one of the most useful plants with an endless list of possibilities which have yet to be studied in full detail.
Also here’s a fact you might not know: If mankind were to pick a single seed to survive on, the hemp seed would be the most logical choice as we can derive cotton, fuel for cars, fuel for factories, paper and many nutritional foods and medicine from that one little seed.
I believe the people who were in power were not aware of the many positive aspects of hemp and that it should be reviewed and studied immediately for the benefit of mankind and the planet we inhabit.
Marijuana ITSELF does not cause lung cancer. Smoking it will, just like smoking ANYTHING will. If you ate pure Nicotine HCL every day it would still eat away at your lungs, thats the nature of the drug. If you ate hash brownies or use a vaporizer its actually proven that it reverses the effects of lung cancer.