Comments on: Hemp, hemp, hooray: Bill aims to aid farmers with new but controversial crop

By: jeff t.

jeff t. — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:37:32 +0000

No reason to cut all the trees when we could use this versatile plant for so many uses…

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By: Cassandra

Cassandra — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:28:02 +0000

There is no good reason for the government and the DEA to control what would create jobs, help keep us healthy and help our Mother Earth. Itd save money by keeping good people out of jail as well. Talk about stupid and pointless!

By: darkmark

darkmark — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:50:44 +0000

hemp cars ten times more capable at taking a beating then steal cars. think of all the computers we throw away, computers, keyboards, monitors, plastic and paper bags on and on it goes. why not throw away a weed instead.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:52:00 +0000

If California actually has its’ way and does get to tax the sale of Marijuana; the next logical step is to open up the whole of the State to the growing of this amazing plant.

By: End the Prohibition

End the Prohibition — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:34:03 +0000

The DEA tried *very* hard to criminalize hemp foodstuffs.

When they failed, nothing happened. Our people didn’t go crazy, armed bandits didn’t roam our streets, absolutely nothing happened.

The DEA was proved to be 100% wrong about hemp foodstuffs but now we’re supposed to believe them when they say hemp growing should remain illegal and marijuana should remain illegal?

Tell your legislators “No”. Contact them and tell them to end the prohibition. It has no benefit to society and costs us and our neighbors dearly.

By: crohnsguy

crohnsguy — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:12:26 +0000

The term “protectionism” has come up a lot recently with respect to the economic downturn. However, protectionism has been alive and well for many years in the form of Hemp prohibition. Can it be any more obvious that the special interests control policy in relation to hemp and marijuana? The lower environmental impact of paper production alone makes hemp a very compelling commodity. Not to mention ridding ourselves of the destructive practice of ethanol production which takes food out of peoples’ mouths worldwide. Law enforcement once again can butt out. They are not doctors nor are they scientists or farmers. I’m absolutely tired of law enforcement chiming in as “experts” on these issues. Their job is to enforce the law, not to write or influence it. I’m sure people will cower in fear as (gasp) fuel, clothing, food, and other products are produced and provide jobs and tangible goods. Oh dear, the sky is falling!

By: opit

opit — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:43:38 +0000

This article cites hemp as a valuable component of crop rotation and soil conditioning. If the stats on ‘marijuana’ control are to believed, the criminalization of a native medicinal weed has as its greatest effect makework job security : bureaucratic empire building.
http://www.innvista.com/health/foods/hemp/growhemp.htm

By: bob caarf

bob caarf — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:22:25 +0000

The one thing that separates hemp cultivation from marijuana cultivation is that the male plant is cultivated for hemp and not the female plant–the male plant has little or no bilateral branching which makes for a nice long strand of hemp fiber. Furthermore, the hemp brand of cannabis does not grow the capitate-stalked glandular trichome–only the bulbous and capitate-sessile glandular trichome. Check the website link for more differences between hemp and marijuana.

By: Scott Moore

Scott Moore — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:14:38 +0000

The DEA is overstepping their bounds. The requirement of a tax stamp that will never be issued is in violation of the constitution. Congress has the right to regulate interstate commerce, but not commerce within a state, and certainly doesn’t have the right to circumvent laws using the DEA as its tool. It is prohibition through a proxy, and is damaging in more ways than one.

The federal government in cases like this is clearly not acting as elected representatives, and in now way embodies a true democracy. The judicial branch has taken over and is overriding the executive and legislative branches, which is illegal, unethical, and undemocratic.

What is the point in fighting for legislation when the judicial branch keeps finding ways to trump the vote by not issuing tax stamps (the very thing the US revolution was founded on).