Don't Bogart that joint my friend....take a toke and pass it around again...
Posted on 04/03/2009 11:17:33 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Paul, Frank introduce bill to legalize hemp @ 2:04 pm by Eric Zimmermann
An unlikely duo has teamed up to legalize hemp. Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) have introduced legislation to exclude "industrial hemp" from the definition of marijuana in the Controlled Substances Act. (h/t Washington Independent).
Introducing the legislation, Paul said:
It is unfortunate that the Federal Government has stood in the way of American farmers, including many who are struggling to make ends meet, competing in the global industrial hemp market. Indeed, the founders of our Nation, some of whom grew hemp, would surely find that Federal restrictions on farmers growing a safe and profitable crop on their own land are inconsistent with the constitutional guarantee of a limited, restrained Federal Government.
Drug policy is one of those rare issues that unites libertarians and liberals, a dynamic confirmed by the list of co-sponsors. Liberals like Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), the Chairman of the Progressive Caucus, are joining forces with Reps. Tom McClintock (R-CA) and Dana Rohrabacher.
The Revenge of the Potheads.
Hemp is different than pot. The US is the only country on the planet where hemp production is illegal, mainly because of the idiot organization we have called the DEA.
I have some very old large diameter hemp rope my grandfather saved, it’s great stuff. I am all for raising it as long as they lowered the THC levels, the stuff really is a useful plant.
Why go halfway? Just legalize the stuff already!!
Why go halfway? Just legalize the stuff already!!
If conservatism is going to survive it is going to stop having tolerance for the kind of now nothing idiocy you have just exibited.
They both have been smokin’ something.
Paul & Frank. It’s like the dynamic duo!
Well corrected, sir!
folk that they can all sit around stoned
Yeah. Conservatives don’t want to be tolerant. Then we’d all be liberal Democrats.
The way I’ve read it the original banning of marijuana was mainly due to the activities of Dupont and Weyerhauser who wanted to eliminate hemp from competition with their forestry and paper products.
Hemp is different than pot. The US is the only country on the planet where hemp production is illegal, mainly because of the idiot organization we have called the DEA E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company.
Fixed!
Like Wow man Just think Hemp clothes and food Plus the head shops and all the smoker Joe rolling Paper.
I believe it also was because the manufacturers of nylon cord wanted more of a market share.
Don't Bogart that joint my friend....take a toke and pass it around again...
No. Keep it illegal, just decriminalize, otherwise all we’ll be able to buy legally is lousy commercial weed, and still have to underground for the “good stuff”. Things are fine the way they are...cough cough.
Don’t stop at hemp. The war on pot is an expensive failure. Time to end it entirely.
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