Posted on 10/23/2013 7:19:45 AM PDT by thetallguy24
Country music icon, satirist and one-time gubernatorial candidate Richard "Kinky" Friedman has announced his bid for agriculture commissioner in 2014. Friedman will run in the Democratic primary.
The 68 year old said he’s interested in legalizing and regulating marijuana as an agricultural crop to revitalize the Texas farming industry.
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It's stupid that we don't grow such a valuable crop that does well in marginal ground just because some people want to smoke it.
/johnny
It may be on the come back:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemp
Some states have made the cultivation of industrial hemp legal, but these states
— North Dakota, Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Oregon, California, Montana,
West Virginia and Vermont — have not yet begun to grow it because of resistance
from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. In 2013, after the legalization
of marijuana in the state, several farmers in Colorado planted and harvested
several acres of hemp, bringing in the first hemp crop in the United States in over half a century.[81]
Useful for what?
For making weed to legalize which stones out the sheeple which adds to the takers which adds the tax burden which adds to the unemployment and welfare roles which adds to the liberal nonsense that adds to the world of Obama that we all love and enjoy?
Kinky, I used to like you, but now that your are supporting the baby killer, you’re dead to me.
Kinky is not even a useful idiot. He would have much work to do to even reach that level. He’s a libertarian. While some may find him amusing from his so-called entertainment value; his leftist political views leave him useless to conservatives.
Hemp farming was encouraged by the government during WWII.
You might do some research before you knee-jerk.
/johnny
Oh. A real “Gotcha” moment for you. How special.
Never mind you arguments for hemp - lets focus on the subject of Kinky. He’s a pro-doper from way back. There is no question of his intent to legalize marijuana.
And even if you wanna argue the valid reasons for growing hemp - so what? Its more cost effective to use cotton or nylon for ropes and any other values it might have are minimal at best.
Any more knee-jerk research you need?
False. Cotton requires much more energy and chemical input than the same amount of hemp. Cotton doesn't do well on marginal soils.
Hemp for agricultural use has been developed that has very low levels of THC and is useless for the dopers.
I don't think the federal government should be involved in outlawing marijuana. There is no remit for that in Art 1 Sec 8 of the Constitution. That should remain a police power of the States, for them to regulate as they wish.
/johnny
And I will vote for the guy! Not really interested in the weed, but he is a fair minded great fellow.
He is misguided on Wendy Davis and the democrats.
Great minds and all....
probably more conservative/libertarian than he would like to admit
More like gullible dumbass.
This is the idiot who pronounced that if Obama were elected we had nothing to worry about a la John McAnus.
These attention whores and their self-relevant insertion into the political world just never ends.
When will people quit being starstruck by these fools and tell them to shut the hell up??
It’s a useful crop.
We ARE going to need more rope...
What to Cut? ‘Non-essential’ federal workforce suggests gov’t has plenty of fat to trim
By Doug McKelway
Published October 24, 2013
FoxNews.co
The Department of Agriculture is fairly typical of most agencies in its sometimes incongruous responsibilities and huge — some say too huge — workforce. It employs roughly 99,000 people to service the roughly 1.4 million Americans employed in farming.
Schatz illustrates that close ratio of federal worker to farmer with a bit of dark humor. “There’s an old joke — an agriculture employee walks into a colleagues office and says, ‘What’s the matter?’ He says, ‘I’m really upset, my farmer died.’”
“It’s not quite a one-to-one ratio of employees at the Agriculture Department to farmers,” said Schatz. “But it is still a much larger operation than it needs to be.”
Under the umbrella of the Agriculture Department lies the Forest Service, school nutrition programs, food stamp programs, animal and plant inspection, meat and poultry inspection, the rural development office, and many other services — many of which, critics say, could easily be privatized.
There’s also an array of outdated subsidy and price support programs for dairy, sugar and ethanol that intentionally raise the price of any number of foods you buy at the grocery.
Ethanol, in particular, diverts tremendous quantities of corn that would otherwise be used for food, for use as fuel. Additionally, an increasing body of evidence suggests that ethanol is less efficient and more polluting than what it replaced. “Ethanol affects a very small group of companies that have a very powerful impact on Congress, similar to the dairy program... a small group of companies and co-ops that have a disproportionate impact on how agriculture policy is formed,” said Schatz.
Sideshow Mel is back
I hope nobody takes this guy seriously
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