Hemp Flag to Fly Over Capitol on Fourth of July

ABC News ^ | July 4, 2013 | by Garrett Bruno

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Fireworks won’t be the only thing flying high over the Capitol during the Fourth of July celebration.

An American flag made of hemp, a non-psychoactive variant of marijuana, will be flown over the Capitol on July 4 for one day.

Industrial hemp–which is considered by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to be a Schedule I substance along with ecstasy and heroin–is a type of cannabis plant that cannot legally be grown in the U.S. but is legally imported and used in hundreds of products ranging from rope to clothing.

[tioga]

Didn’t read much of the article, assumed it was a statement on legalizing pot.

[tioga]

I DID read that it was industrial hemp...blah blah.....but, thanks for clarifying anyway.

[EEGator]

No, it’s rather different. Anyway, Happy Fourth of July. :)

[tioga]

Happy 4th to you and yours. We just got some rain, but I am thinking it will pass soon.

[EEGator]

Hopefully so. You have to barbecue outside on the Fourth.

[TribalPrincess2U]

Uh, I’m talking about a MJ flag.

I accept your apology.

[GBA]

Probably stronger and longer lasting than a cotton flag. I would guess cheaper, easier to grow and less labor intensive to prep and spin the fibers into that more durable, but less comfortable thread.

I saw something, History channel?, about how slavery would have just gone away all by itself over a fairly short time, but the sudden popularity of cotton just as suddenly made slavery very necessary and very popular, which made cotton more profitable and desirable, and hemp much less so, in fact, effectively banned all the way into obscurity.

There's a weird sort of circular irony(?) in there somewhere, if some fear of black Americans somehow justified the reason to make hemp illegal after what cotton's success put us all through, that has even lead to this war on drugs, common sense and the Bill of Rights.

Where the hell is that Reset button?!? We need to reboot this conversation.

[leaning conservative]

Agree 100%!!!!! It is also completely perverse that I can drink all day on July 4th (I’m not drinking all day!)& people can’t smoke marijuana. That I will never understand.

Happy 4th!

[TribalPrincess2U]

I should have been clearer—A flag with a MJ leaf on it.

I read it wrong.

[EEGator]

[Hulka]

Hate to burst your bubbler, but illegal drugs from cartels still flood Colorado and other states.

Alcohol is legal but still we have illicit trade in it.

Cartels won’t simply walk away and haven’t.

[USS Johnston]

Uh, I’m talking about a MJ flag.

I accept your apology.

You should spank you yourself for your ambiguous comment, then apologize. TO YOURSELF.

;-)

[USS Johnston]

Apology accepted.

[USS Johnston]

Just my suspicion and definitely no disrespect to any of our Founding Fathers was intended.

Thank you, Sir.

[Katya]

exactly..

[TribalPrincess2U]

:>)

[USS Johnston]

Glad you took that in the same humor it was given :-)