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Posted on 06/19/2005 6:30:01 AM PDT by blabs
> "I grew hemp" - George Washington
* Thomas Edison constructed the first electric light bulb out of hemp. The Pony Express stage coaches were made from hemp.
* Not only did George Washington smoke hemp, but Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, Samuel Adams and Governeur Morris did too. The Declaration of Independence was made out of hemp, and after they all signed it, they smoked it.
* The real reason hemp is illegal is that the military-industrial complex, the Republican Party, Haliburton, Microsoft, the Boston Red Sox, and the entire state of California stand to lose Trillions!
Yes, but that's indicative of almost everything.
We would be much better off if congress was limited to only 3 months of sessions per year. And they were paid accordingly.
Many people of this forum can discuss hemp in a mostly intellectual fashion. However it appears that blabs has something other than an intellectual motive for posting the article.
Conspiracy or not, it's obvious there's been a lot of questionable tactics used by the government on the issue from the very beginning. Why name a bill the "Marijuana Tax Act" at a time when very few people had ever heard the term, but virtually everyone knew what hemp was? The only reason to do something like that is if you're trying to hide something, and just serves to fuel speculation on what it is.
I haven't seen any "devastation". WHat I have seen are hardworking, taxpaying, otherwise law-abiding citizens who prefer a joint to a six-pack, myself included.
Wish I had the time to refute some of the junk in the dissertation.
You should read the Federalist Papers, and other writings of the founders on the issue of what is and is not "commerce", as well as what their concept of what "regulation" of said commerce involved. I don't beleive you can objectively justify that statement without rejecting their definitions of those terms and replacing them with others that are substantially different.
Very poor job of sarcasm.
Point me to an authoritative source for any of these. An authoritative source is NOT a pro-legalization website that makes these claims.
Powerful central governments run by two political parties that agree they should run a powerful central government is great for giant corporations and powerful special interests. They can pay the party leaders to get one of the most valuable agricultural products in history (hemp) morphed into a deadly weed (marijuana).
How much would commercial forest land owned by giant forest products corporations be worth if America's family farms were meeting a significant portion of America's fiber needs with commercial hemp? How much market share would oil companies lose if hemp based lubricants were allowed to compete with petroleum based lubricants?
How much would the U.S. Litigation Industry lose in lawyer fees if hemp were legal? How much would the U.S. Incarceration Industry lose in taxpayer funded government checks if hemp were legal?
Powerful political parties are not designed to protect the individual liberty and promote the private property rights of citizens. Non-partisan elections at all levels of government is the only conceivable way for a democracy to protect individual liberty and promote the private property rights of citizens. In a democracy, political parties should be lobbying organizations and nothing more.
yeah, it was meant to make a hypocritical point..
It takes just as much time to take a cheap shot. You have convinced no one except those who believe as you do. Preaching to the choir is easy.
democracies are not designed to protect individual liberties. The are collective in their nature. A democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner.
The free flow of products across state lines is the purview of the Federal Government. For instance, a farmer may grow corn in one state and ship it to, or through, another state which also grows corn, without worries that the corn will be taxed by the neighboring State or some other State. Commercial hemp would fall under that type of regulatory protection also. If it is shipped from one state to, or through another, it is interstate commerce.
Your post reminded me of a Churchill quote:
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
This is stupid. Hemp is not linen. Linen is another plant.
Linen is a generic term often associated wih cloth. Surely you must have better points...
I don't favor the legalization of marijuana. I do however, favor the legalization of commercial hemp growing, and I support medicinal marijuana. For reasons known only to you, you linked porn to hemp as an example of hypocrisy. You might have chosen a better example of hypocrisy.
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