The simple fact that industrial hemp...

...and medicinal marijuana are not legal in the USA, after all these years, after all that we now know, and against the majority's wishes, is living proof that the USA is ran by corporate/military/fascists.

We are not "free".

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could be argued but there is NO logical reason other than corporate suppression for hemp not to be grown as a alternate fuel source, paper making, clothing, food products and probably a thousand other uses. Same applies to medical marijuana being suppressed by big pharma, they sure as hell don't want anyone using something that a person could grow for themselves.

here for awhile. It seems to be a new (but also old) meme.

People can grow lettuce and tomatoes, how many do?
People can bake their own bread, how many do?
People can make their own alcohol, how many do?

While the answer to all of the above is that, "some do", overall it just seems to me to be a mostly empty argument.

Regulate and tax it, like booze. So, some will grow it for themselves. Big deal. Lots won't.

Care to point to national polls on legalizing industrial hemp? I haven't seen any. Same for medical marijuana--I know some ballot measures have passed, but that doesn't neccessarily translate as national support.

if the authorities can arrest and imprison you because you have a plant in your garden, than they can arrest you for anything. I believe its part of an indoctrination to be a modern American.
Also what is wrong is the bullying, intimidating and coercing of other countries by the American DEA.
Other countries like here in the Philippines, where the unrestricted cultivation of hemp would be such a environmentally friendly financial boost to the economy of the country.

Its ignorant and criminal. End the prohibition and the world will change dramatically forever.

Marijuana is the flower of peace, can I get an Amen?

:)

Namaste

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"End prohibition and the world will change dramatically forever" Yes, indeed.

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It's well past time to end marijuana prohibition. It's ridiculous, counter-productive, cruel, wasteful, and fundamentally counter to any rational concept of liberty and personal self-determination for consenting adults.

for medical marijuana --

The Drug war is a crock -- drug running couldn't exist without the corruption of high govt officials and police enforcement --

We've been involved in drugs since at least the Golden Triangle/Thailand/VN --

Arresting sick people -- !!! Way to go America!!!

Meanwhile, hemp is a highly useful crop -- especially for paper and rope --
we have to bleach the paper we use -- you don't have to bleach hemp.

It also helps the environment to grow hemp -- good for the ozone layer.

Also -- makes GREAT clothing -- cool in summer -- war in winter -- wonderfully comfortable.
But -- we can't have it -- !!!???

Supposedly because it includes 1% element of marijuana -- but no one has shown that it could in any way be used as an intoxicant --

Nor has anyone ever died from using marijuana -- many have from simply using alcohol . . . long term and short term.

What a wonderful world this could be -- !!!

That I can plant every square meter. I hope I live to see that day.

Like that line from some movie..
"Son, you smell that? That sweet hempish smell? I love that smell, it reminds me of....VICTORY"

Another thread on the subject....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1296597

it would be easy to completely overrun eradication efforts by Johnny-Appleseeding it all over the place. Once it got going and self-sowing, it would be as impossible to eradicate as dandelion.

and if you have them growing so remotely that nobody can detect them you cant render the care to separate the sexes and save the potency of the herb.

if you cant do that, its just ragweed.

Or will the only progressive anti drug war choice be a protest vote for a third party?

gOD BLESS the Dems, but can they please do the right thing? PLEASE!

the hemp can be grown here....