[Pay now bill Clinton]

Your tax dollars at work.

[dead]

Oh, I guess now that we've rid the world of terrorism, disease, and socialism, we can conconcentrate on the really important stuff.

[alpowolf]

This was posted a day or two ago. But I don't mind seeing it again. I'm still waiting to see how the Holy Drug Crusaders defend the War On Pretzels.

They had better ban potato chips too. Potato chips are the gateway drug to pretzels.

[Lumberjack]

Amazing.

Yet another bureaucratic buffoon who thinks she owns We the People, and acts accordingly.

[Lysander]

... food with hempseeds sends a pro-drug message to children and is camouflage for a campaign to legalize marijuana.

Oh boy, they would rather send a "stupidity" message to the kids. I want government to do what it is supposed to do. Being stupid is not it.

[LarryLied]

Your tax dollars at work.

No...our advertising dollars at work. Left Wing Affirmative Action idiots combing through everything the Feds do to find this nonsense.

[Bommer]

Hutchinson says, "Many Americans do not know that hemp and marijuana are both parts of the same plant and that hemp cannot be produced without producing marijuana."

This is one serious idiot in a job he is overwealmingly unqualified for! They are not the same plant! Hemp part of the Marijuana family, but has vertually no THC. This PR garbage sounds like it came from the film "Reefer Madness!" In order to get a good joint buzz, you would have to smoke about 1/4 of an acre of hemp.

[tacticalogic]

I guess those poppy seeds on your hamburger bun are next.

[MissAmericanPie]

You have got to be kidding me. Do they just sit around up there in D.C. looking for something controversial and damaging to heap on the public? She should be ran out town on a rail, but she blends so well with the rest of the D.C. abominables.

[DancesWithTrout]

How will I ever get rid of my munchies when all the best munchies contain THC (leading cause of the munchies). A vicious, vicious cycle. Requires way too much thought. Someone pass me the bong.

[Benson_Carter]

when I think of all the gun control laws, all the beurocratic nonsense laws, all the tyranny, all the socialism, all the un-American, spirit-crushing crap peddled by the elite class and the tyrannical government, it's weird to think that taking this country back by force scares me more than it does them.

But that is the basis for the Declaration and the Constitution.

"That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted amongst Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Gverned, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundatoin on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing Forms to which they are accustomed.

and it is a scary thought, indeed...

[TADSLOS]

Explains my incessant case of the munchies for tortilla chips.

[mafree]

Boy, you can get the munchies and do something about it in one crunch!(/sarcasm)

[Dan from Michigan]

Geez Asa, you got too much time on your hands.

BTW - What happened at MENA Asa, you hypocrite?

[Jefferson Adams]

Oh thank God they're protecting us from this Great Evil.

Good Grief. Idiots.

[headsonpikes]

'Your tax dollars at work'...forging your chains.

If you're happy and you know it, Klank your chains...;^)

[jungleboy]

It's an attack on the "natural foods" manufacturers. The big boys don't want the competition, and know how to stop it. Bribe a politician.

[Phantom Lord]

Quick, get rid of your tortilla chips you druggie!

[NC Conservative]

You can get high and curb the munchies all in one sitting.

[JSteff]

What an idiotic, wasted effort on the part of the governemnt. Hemp seed oil is the PERFECT balance of essential fatty acids for humans which is critical for life. Over 75 percent of the fatty acid in hemp oil are polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA's). A high percentage of these PUFA's are the Omega 6 fatty acids.. great Addtionally Hemp seed is primarily composed of 65% Edestin protein, a highly stable and classified as a globulin type of protein. The amino acids found here are said to be far superior to levels found in soy protein isolate, and it does not have the soy negatives such as affecting hormone levels in women.

Additionally, (though it is all technical), only certain types of hemp actually have the required ingrediants that will allow the THC to have a "high' in humans. On top of that there is a way that the hemp can be, and is ussually "sterilized" to remove the THC thereby allowing any hempseed product to have a drug effect. I understand most hempseed oil used in foods has this process done.

Even if not sterilized I have read you would need to ingest over a very short period of time about a 50 gallon drum of chips using hempseed oil to get any sort of "buzz".... and at that it would be barely noticeable. No squinty eyes, no craving for junk food, no desire to watch all 8 or so hours of Monty Python episodes, no ability to see the wisdom or better appreciate the messages Pink Flyods Dark Side of the Moon

To top all this off, hempseed oil, as mentioned above, is the perfect balance of essential fatty acids and would be much better to use as a cooking oil (and has a better flavor I am told) for virtually everyone. I would love to see the reasoning and forces behind this crack down. Show me the money as they say.

You see, hemp is a weed and will grow just about anywhere, requires no special care to grow relatively well, and is super hardy. In other words a reason for big business like the agriculture support industries to hate the plant. Tough to make a buck selling farmers stuff the don't need like special fertilizers, insecticides, soil preparations.

Here are some links which include much more info and are very interesting reading.
Hempnut.com
A more scientific site.

Do a web search for hempseed, hempnut, or hemp oil 'cause there is interesting info out there.

[spycatcher]

Stuff like this is the sign of a sick society. Reminds me of British bureaucrats who drive around like the Taliban trying to find clandestine TV watchers to fine.