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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Horsewoman, this isn’t the fucking bible. Not everyone believes in God, and the government sure as fuck isn’t going to change their opinion on legalizing marijuana because “GOD” created it. “power to the people” doesn’t have anything with religion.
“Now I’m not in favor of marijuana, primarily because of its affect on the lungs.”
Considering there are MANY alternatives to smoking the herb, your disapproval is moot. I for one use a vaporizer, which minimizes the effect on the lungs. Plus the list goes on of whats available in the hundereds of dispensaries in cali.
You can own the beach man, thats gods beach!
Dr. Paul, a medical doctor, introduced a bill (HR5842) decriminalizing the use of medical marijuana.
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Congressman Barney Frank and Dr. Paul introduced legislation (HR 5843) to remove federal penalties on personal marijuana use on April 17, 2008.
http://www.house.gov/frank/marijuana041708.html
Give me a break Horsewoman, you’re a goddamn hypocrite.
God also created anthrax, would you like it if religious fundamentalists (not unlike yourself) were allowed to use it to cause widespread death and terror?
I agree that our current government has too much control, however to say something like “the hell with all forms of government control” just highlights the fact that you’re an ignorant, uneducated hick.
Have a nice day
Horsewomen, though you may be right about that, Man came up with the idea of smoking it, so man can make it illegal. I mean I don’t smoke it, but it has medicinal value and should be legalized. But your point is ridiculous. No one will listen to you if you go around saying its god’s will to legalize pot.
We citizens have lost control of our government. The government is telling us what to do when it should be the other way around.
> puffing joints till the air turned blue.
There was a huge cloud of smoke hanging over Boulder that day, from a brush fire in the foothills just west of town.
We should stop wasting money trying to stop the use of Pot and use to stop the use of the real killer drugs out there that cause most of the crime in the US and the world for that matter. They need to stop the Cocaine and Crack from entering the Us now, but we all know that the government really doesn’t want to put an end to that. Way to much money to be made here to have that happen.
Horsewoman, you have smoked yourself retarded.
This happens every year all over the country.
Still can’t understand why the Gov’t would rather people (read “drug dealers”) not pay taxes by keeping a plant illegal.
How much $ of a pack of cigarettes is Tax.
Make marijuana prohibitively expensive and it will stay out of the schools.
Those in adolescence can get illegal drugs much easier than cigarettes or alcohol, so who is to blame?
I blame the war on drugs.