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The DEA is cracking down on hempseed oil in tortilla chips
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| December 09, 2001
| Ann McFeatters
Posted on 12/14/2001 10:39:32 AM PST by Pay now bill Clinton
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:34:32 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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To: getsoutalive
Not at all likely.
61
posted on
12/14/2001 2:19:59 PM PST
by
mvscal
To: Pay now bill Clinton;Dane
Dane, can you spell "Ann McFeatters" correctly?
Prove it here ____________. There's a special prize for all the good little citizens.
62
posted on
12/14/2001 4:20:39 PM PST
by
Dakmar
To: alpowolf
.... the War On Pretzels.What! Someone declared war on pretzels? That's it, they've gone too far now. They'll never get my bag of Rold Gold pretzels all twisted into cute little holiday shapes from me. Never.
63
posted on
12/14/2001 4:46:08 PM PST
by
barker
To: barker
The world becomes more like "Demolition Man" every single day, doesn't it?
64
posted on
12/17/2001 8:58:56 AM PST
by
mvpel
To: Dakmar
Freedom Bump
65
posted on
12/17/2001 8:18:05 PM PST
by
dcwusmc
To: Orangedog; Joseph Warren
I's like to see a heavily accented hispanic lookalike to the obese, good-natured sgt. in the original Zorro series advertise this one on my TV. Crunching and munching his doritos! For diversity's sake in America. The Freeto Bandito!
How about "Pancho Tortilla"?
To: Orangedog; Joseph Warren
IyEEEE IyEEEE
IyEEEE IyEEEE
I'm called Pancho Tortilla
I smuggle tortillas
And bring them to you
I give some to police
'Cause they like them too!
IyEEEE IyEEEE
IyEEEE IyEEEE
I'm called Pancho Tortilla
To: Pay now bill Clinton
"The DEA has decided..."
No more congress...we have the alphabet soup agencies with all the power they need to make law. Congresscritters are sissies to make law anymore. They make law so general as to basically say, "Alpha agency, you go make the rules. Here is a law that allows you full discretion."
To: LarryLied
Why are the feds wasting MY tax money DOING this BS? Get a grip. She's done us a GOOD TURN finding this!
69
posted on
12/20/2001 10:16:02 PM PST
by
dcwusmc
To: Pay now bill Clinton
We should end the war on drugs, and use the profits (from taxing the heck out of legal drugs) to fund the war on terror (I don't want to pay for it! Let the potheads!). We really can't keep two of these wars going at once... (plus the WoD just plain sucks)
70
posted on
12/20/2001 10:21:15 PM PST
by
xm177e2
To: Pay now bill Clinton
heh...heh,heh...
breakin' the law, breakin' the law...
heh,heh heh
71
posted on
12/20/2001 10:25:57 PM PST
by
d4now
To: spycatcher
Reminds me of British bureaucrats who drive around like the Taliban trying to find clandestine TV watchers to fine. What's this?
72
posted on
12/20/2001 10:37:18 PM PST
by
Danielle
To: Bommer
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.Yep. The huge amount of food product a person would need to ingest in order to have any THC effect is that the ton of food product would severely damage harm the person.
The DEA claims their proposal is valid for no other reason than "there's already a law that says we can". The DEA has absolute zero regard for the fact that it is a non-problem from the get-go. The DEA is creating a problem that need not exist. Their position if followed through will do much harm while doing zero good. I would expect that the hemp oil is a healthier choice than the alternative oils.
Somebody needs to look into what food-oil companies would benefit from the DEA's proposal. I mean, what does the DEA have to gain by outlawing hemp oil? Zero, zip, nada, nothing. Unless, certain high ranking DEA officials are holding their hands out for a payoff from one or more non-hemp oil producers.
The DEA's proposal needs not only to be shot down but their highly probable criminal collusion with private sector companies needs to be scrutinized.
73
posted on
12/20/2001 11:21:24 PM PST
by
Zon
To: 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.Considering the integrity of businessmen and high ranking DEA officials I lay odds that it was the DEA that put the offer on the table. For an upper-management businessman it's hard to resist the DEA's rationalization for the proposal. The businessman likely figures, "well, if it's the law then I'm justified too."
Forty years ago the FDA banned saccharin. The report and test results they based that on was a complete sham. They gave rats the equivalent of 700 cans of soda that a person would have to drink for saccharin to have a harmful effect. Get this, 700 cans of water consumed by a person over that same time span would harm the person far worse than the saccharin in 700 cans of soda.
I could probably dig up hundreds more cases that the FDA used invalid test results. Why do they do it? To justify their jobs. They create a boogieman based on junk science then claim compassion for the consumer. Then ban the product or device. There's also collusion form the private business sector. Considering the integrity of each and I lay odds it was the FDA put the offers on the table most of the time.
74
posted on
12/20/2001 11:41:21 PM PST
by
Zon
To: JSteff
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.That and...
Read the two posts #73 and #74
75
posted on
12/20/2001 11:44:50 PM PST
by
Zon
To: Pay now bill Clinton
How do you feel about a beurocracy being able to outlaw snack foods by decree?
To: 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.Sick yes. But not society. Rather an epistemology disease of the mind. Just one proof of that politicians and bureaucrats routinely compromise their honest principles. The encourage people to vote for the lesser of two "evils". People follow along and compromise their own principles by voting for the candidate they think is the less bad. That's not a choice. It's slow suicide.
Read the posts #73 and #74.
77
posted on
12/20/2001 11:51:22 PM PST
by
Zon
To: E. Pluribus Unum;capt. norm;bukkdems; getsoutalive;TightSqueeze
;mvpel;PatrioticAmerican...
Read posts #73, #74 and #75
78
posted on
12/20/2001 11:57:34 PM PST
by
Zon
To: Zon
And read post #77.
79
posted on
12/20/2001 11:58:32 PM PST
by
Zon
To: riley1992
Oh boy! I feel safer now!
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