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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:17 AM
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Are people just not interested in H.R. 3037?
This is the bill being floated to legalize Industrial Hemp in the country. I rarely get responses when I post about it. This would be a good thing for our country. Call your reps, we need to support it!
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Atman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:19 AM
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1. It's a great idea, but there is a lot of other hi-profile shit going on
Sure it would be a good thing for our country. So would ending the war and removing Bush.

Americans in general and DUers in particular, I think, are in "cause overload." There are too many battles to fight as it is. As well-intentioned as it may be, I think many feel there are higher priorities.
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:23 AM
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4. Should look at the uses for it..link below. Environmentally very important
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:24 AM
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6. Your points are true but...
We need to make room to support this one, as it will go a long way towards reducing our energy dependence on other countries, and therefore minimize the need for any more illegal resource wars. Not to mention the CO2 reduction.
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:27 AM
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7. Another one. They do believe it could be used for fuel sources.
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:30 AM
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11. The first diesel engines were made with it...
Edited on Sat Sep-24-05 10:33 AM by slor
in mind. Look up Henry Ford and his visionary plans for Hemp.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:33 AM
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16. A hemp biodiesel hybrid would be awesome
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:35 AM
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18. It really could be the answer to our oil dependence problem among
others. The Duponts and oil companies were the ones who made it illegal anyways. Didn't want competition.
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firefox Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 12:02 PM
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23. No. All the causes are related. Solution is to end fascism.
Here again we see the Democrats involved in prohibition and we hear their silence on the subject just as well as the Republicans.

All these single issues are not going to be wrestled from the fascist monster running the country. You have got to beat on the fascist monster to get anything to change.

Reasoning on an issue does not matter to the fascists. It is all about money and power and as long as they have that they do not want to hear any reasoning.

There cannot be a more visible wrong than prohibiting hemp. You do realize prohibiting is on the opposite side of freedom don't you? Just imagine if Washington and Jefferson came back to a land that prohibited hemp and confiscated your farm if you grew it.

Even if cannabis were a deadly drug instead of the greatest medicinal plant in the history of mankind, there is no way that reason could call for prohibiting hemp. It took drug warriors like Clinton, Gore, Kerry and the others in Washington serving their corporate masters to think in such a twisted manner. They and the other drug warriors cannot defend their prohibition on hemp, so they adopt a strategy of silence.

The hemp issue is a good test for finding the fascists in government, but then again so is the cannabis legalization issue.
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:20 AM
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2. I hadn't heard of it. I am very excited. Should have been done decades ago
Thanks.
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:21 AM
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3. I don't think people understand the environmental impact legalizing it
could have. The uses of it and how easy it is to grow.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:27 AM
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9. Can you build levees with it? n/t
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:28 AM
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10. I wouldn't doubt it.
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:32 AM
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14. Well I have seen a picture of Henry Ford hitting...
a vehicle made from a hemp based material with a wrench, and it seemed not to even scratch it.
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Dez Donating Member (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:24 AM
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5. Is there a link for it?
I'll write my reps about it. We NEED hemp, more than ever now, with oil as pricy as it is, we can replace it with hemp for fuels!
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slor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:27 AM
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8. Here is a link...
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Dez Donating Member (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:31 AM
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12. Thanks so much!
I'll write the worthless repugs here in Az. about it.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:32 AM
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13. Thanks, I am big-time in favor of this.
Edited on Sat Sep-24-05 10:33 AM by GreenPartyVoter
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parasim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:32 AM
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15. Absolutely!
Thanks for bringing this up again. You're right, people need to get behind this.

Here's another good link for more info:
http://www.thehia.org/hempfacts.htm
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:34 AM
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17. Take note
That Jim McDermott and Pete Stark also have their names attached to this (Ron Paul is the sponsor). Some attaboys are in order for a pair of dependably sensible and nervy Democrats.
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Dez Donating Member (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:37 AM
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19. I voteed for Jim
when I lived in Wa. .. we need more politicians like him!
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 10:39 AM
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20. Fantastic. Thanks for letting us know!
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kikiek Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 11:05 AM
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21. We need to keep this thread going. It ties into everything going on
in this country. If we had developed hemp for fuel decades ago we wouldn't be where we are at.
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Dez Donating Member (826 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-24-05 11:09 AM
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22. Exactly!
America starts wars for it's corporate interests.. and this is why hemp is illegal to grow, because it is competition to so many American corporations. We need to get our voice heard, and let the politicians know that we DEMAND change, and we want hemp to be legal, so that we can use bio fuels, that would cost a fraction of what oil costs us. It's all about money in America, it has ALways been about moeny, corporate money, and we need a change now!
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