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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Dude, chill out. Just because God made something doesn’t make it awesome. God made plenty of fucked up shit too. As a non-smoker myself, I find it strange governments try to ban drugs - people who want them will always be able to find them. If anything, it just places control of the industry in the hands of some incredibly unsavoury people - the exact opposite of the desired outcome. I wonder if collectively the human race will realise this one day. Probably not. People still think God exists.
Well first of all there are people who do not believe in
God. “Man cannot put laws on God’s plant”. So you say man shouldn’t put laws on anything that God made.
So that Man shouldn’t put laws on another man(”The hell with the DEA and ALL other forms of government control!”). So that means total anarchy , I don’t have to explain why is that bad.
Marijuana is from nature. Humans are from nature. The only laws that are binding are the laws of nature. I will never stop using what my mother Earth has given me, as it is a beautiful gift indeed. People who hate it simply have lost touch with life itself, because to hate it is to hate nature, and to hate nature is to hate yourself.
Horsewoman doesn’t know what she’s talking about-
Do these confused hippes really understand how god works? ..NO! So, selling heroine to kids is ok because it is one of gods plants?.. no.. how does he work then?? is this person saying god created - fluffy bunnies, pretty paintings, tasty food and weed for us to set fire to and breah in the tasty fumes, and Satan created - guns, george bush, fluffy bunnies and beautiful heroine for us to set fire to and breath in its fumes??
Damned if i know. We should invent a ‘’suffering meter” or something to judge weather things are good or evil. a lot of evil things are legal.. but if we banned them pot would slowly rise to the top. causes me suffering when it destroys my motivation or when i don’t have any…
My dads a dick
Pot will remain VERBOTTEN, until they can figure out a cure for all those DEA Pigs that are addicted to BIG PAYCHEQUES.
Marijuana’s effect on the lungs? NO EFFECT if you cook it to eat. If you even smoke it, it’s smoke is BIO-DEGRADABLE, unlike cigarette smoke which has a sticky, tar-like effect on your lungs. The longest the smoke buildup stays on your lungs is about two weeks from marijuana.
Although smoking cannabis is bad for the lungs, have you ever eatin it?
Nice cup of pot chocolate is amazing and the high lasts longer and is stronger, but there is nothing quite like a joint.
No one cares about the writers opinion on pot/hemp. Just report the event.
Quote: “Man cannot put laws on God’s plant.”
God made everything… so you’re saying we can’t have any man-made laws at all. That’s a really stupid argument.