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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Your stance on marijuana’s taxation on the lungs does not make any sense, as many people either vaporize or bake their pot, thus eliminating ANY harmful effects on the lungs.
I don’t think that everyone believes in “God,” so I think that this argument isn’t that relevant. If you said that it belongs to everyone, then I’d agree. If you are going on that logic, isn’t “God” in everything? So, therefore through my powers of deduction, isn’t pot “GOD”? I don’t know…just tossing that out there.
Can you OD on pot? It is pretty much impossible. How many people you know died because of alcohol poisoning? How many people do you know died from a drunk driver?
How many people do you know died from lung cancer from smoking cigarettes or cigars? How many people do you know died from mouth or trachea cancer because of chew? How many people do you know died from liver or kidney failure because of their alcoholism? How many people die from being too high? How many people die from being high, driving and crashing. How many people die from marijuana overdose? Smoking Marijuana has been proven safe to smoke than cigarettes. Hemp was required to be grown during WW2. There are references to smoke some type of state altering drug in the bible. Some of our founding fathers smoked pot. Marijuana is safer with your life than alcohol that is why people want to legalize and not cocaine or heroin. Because, they prefer the effects of it and we as people just don’t understand why they hold our go given right for the natural substance; when it is safer than what is legal today?? Because if it really was so horrific than the news would read 10,000 pot smokers got arrested at a protest!
Now if we legalize Hemp, Where is the goverment going to get money for all of its little secret programs
PROTIP: People who smoke cigarettes habitually usually smoke much more in a day than cannabis smokers.
Funny how a long time ago people would get arrested if they weren’t growing hemp and now they get arrested if they do grow it. IRONY =P
Amen.
Umm.. Cannabis plants evolved here just like everything else. I agree with you that it should not be illegal, but leave the ‘God’s kingdom crap’ out of the argument please - it just makes you look like a lunatic.
Get rid of this bloated federal government that is making our founding fathers roll over in their graves.
“What did we work so hard for?” They would say, “to let your apathy and laziness turn this country into exactly what we were fighting against.” Oust the men behind the curtain. Down with the criminal cartel called the Fed.
Horsewoman, did you pull the quote from out of your ass? Try not raving like a lunatic, and then maybe someone will take you seriously.
Myself, I couldn’t care either way if H.R. 1009 passed or not. I’ve seen friends and family turn into complete morons after getting completely blitzed from smoking pot, and have yet to see an instance of someone not doing something they regret later.