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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4/22/08
The PLANT kingdom is God’s kingdom and NOT man’s! God made the plant Cannabis Sativa not man! Man cannot put laws on God’s plant. It is wrong and should be considered illegal for him or any government to do this act. I like to say this quote to people, “MAN’S LAWS, ARE A BURDEN, TO GOD’S PEOPLE!” The hell with the DEA and ALL other forms of government control! POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Right on…….
“So what can we do to get the government to change it’s position on hemp? Do you think it will ever change?”
^^We could have elected Ron Paul, who authored the bill to which you refer.
You mention marijuana effecting the lungs but there’s a big difference between pot and cigarettes. People who smoke a lot of cigs (and have lung problems) tend to smoke a LOT of cigarettes (20+ a day) - Even the biggest pot head doesn’t smoke that much pot. It just doesn’t work that way. It’s really not comparable. Which is why pot has never been linked to any such health problems.
I celebrated 4/20.
“Now I’m not in favor of marijuana, primarily because of its affect on the lungs.”
What about Vaporizers? With them, your dumb generalization (above) is absolutely and completely false.
Secondly, who the hell cares about hemp? Don’t use 420 as some kind of tool to push your pro-hemp agenda; these people want to get high, not save America.
Piracy is society’s answer to the pitfalls of Capitalism; if you won’t provide it for us, we’ll just go ahead and take it.
The US Govt is the one bringing it in. You might say, “say what?????”. Yep, the same one that is arresting you for it is the same one bringing it in. The same one who committed 9/11 are the same ones benefitting from the “War on Terror”. Once you figure out how it works, your life will never be the same.
Wow, Horsewoman, I can’t begin to describe how asinine you sound, and I’m for the legalization of marijuana. I personally abstain from it, as it clogs my mental faculties, but I don’t have a problem with others smoking it. Taxation and regulation are the way to go, I think. Capslock and exclamation points aren’t the way to bring the change about, though.
the poster above me is a retard.
god can eat a dick.
Haha, I didn’t know the 20th was marijuana day, but I was all out anyway. I’ll smoke a fattie after work today to show my respects.
10,000 people smoking .125 grams of pot (assuming an average consumption of 1 “bowl” per day of a weeks supply 3.5 grams) is 1250 grams or 44 ounces.
Technically ONE grower could have supplied the entire event covertly, just to bring attention to the marijuana laws.
Now, assuming this is not the case, the DEA would have to see if the volume of marijuana and number of arrests do not balance…business wise…the bust would not make sense. Unless the city was also running PR to show how safe and clean the streets are. In that case plenty of money to arrest 1% of the 10,000 people would exist.
Anybody local to that area who can speak on actual experiences?