1) You’re still not seeing a day where tobacco is more restricted than marijuana.
2) The “gateway drug” theory has been proven to be false.
3) This ridiculous prohibition also keep industrial hemp from being grown. This is a useful raw material and would give American farmers (many of who are struggling) an easy-to-grow cash crop to add to their rotation. Even though this kind of plant is no good for smoking, it’s still illegal to grow.
“This ridiculous prohibition also keep industrial hemp from being grown.”
Hemp is a bit of a miracle crop.
It produces 10x the amount of paper, per year, as an acre of trees. And high quality paper at that.
Saving 10’s of millions of trees for better use than wiping one’s backside.
It’s also a competitor to cotton, and produces a very healthy Omega 3/6/9 fatty acids.
It’s also the source of CBD oil which has proven to help many with various and sundry afflictions like epilepsy, arthritis, insomnia etc.
2) The “gateway drug” theory has been proven to be false.
3) This ridiculous prohibition also keep industrial hemp from being grown. This is a useful raw material and would give American farmers (many of who are struggling) an easy-to-grow cash crop to add to their rotation. Even though this kind of plant is no good for smoking, it’s still illegal to grow.
Pure BS! Ask any cop or prosecutor who worked or is working narcotics. Check with families who have their kids on drugs and you will find the vast overwhelming majority started with pot and went on to bigger and better things. Saw it first hand working the street and the morgue (homicide).
Given the way things are in D.C. we could use a lot of hemp rope. Miles of it.