Comments on: Industrial hemp still alive in Legislature http://minnesotaindependent.com/30213/industrial-hemp-still-alive-in-legislature News. Politics. Media. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 23:48:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: crohnsguy http://minnesotaindependent.com/30213/industrial-hemp-still-alive-in-legislature/comment-page-1#comment-27807 crohnsguy Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:02:08 +0000 http://minnesotaindependent.com/?p=30213#comment-27807 Great to hear that our legislators are using some common sense. Hemp was deemed the "product of the future" near the turn of the 20th century. So many consumer goods were made from Hemp and Hemp derivatives. Henry Ford even ran his Model T on Hemp Fuel and made parts for vehicles that were stronger than steel! Paper can be made from Hemp (The Constitution was written on Hemp paper for pete's sake!) What a wonderful crop to create industry all while preserving the ecosystem. Hemp requires little to no fertilizer, will grow virtually anywhere, and it's only by-product is OXYGEN! Let's stop cutting down trees already! This is common sense, and only special interests that fear their bottom line would suffer oppose industrial hemp. You can't smoke the stuff. If it worries drug officials that marijuana would be grown alongside (which as stated in the article above is not possible) then maybe we should cut down all the corn fields?! Good grief! The Dupont Chemicals and other companies were behind the prohibition of Hemp back in the 30's. "Protectionism" is a word bantered about recently in response to International Trade improprieties in light of our current economic downturn. One need look no further than our own backyard and industrial Hemp prohibition to see protectionism in action. The products you consume today were given an unfair market advantage thanks to hemp prohibition. Let REAL free markets decide what Americans consume. It's obvious through the outsourcing of jobs overseas that Corporatism is the norm in America and that these companies only have their bottom lines in mind. Obama has championed the idea of a "green" economy. If hemp production is not "green" then nothing is! Great to hear that our legislators are using some common sense.
Hemp was deemed the “product of the future” near the turn of the 20th century. So many consumer goods were made from Hemp and Hemp derivatives. Henry Ford even ran his Model T on Hemp Fuel and made parts for vehicles that were stronger than steel! Paper can be made from Hemp (The Constitution was written on Hemp paper for pete’s sake!) What a wonderful crop to create industry all while preserving the ecosystem. Hemp requires little to no fertilizer, will grow virtually anywhere, and it’s only by-product is OXYGEN! Let’s stop cutting down trees already! This is common sense, and only special interests that fear their bottom line would suffer oppose industrial hemp. You can’t smoke the stuff. If it worries drug officials that marijuana would be grown alongside (which as stated in the article above is not possible) then maybe we should cut down all the corn fields?! Good grief!

The Dupont Chemicals and other companies were behind the prohibition of Hemp back in the 30′s. “Protectionism” is a word bantered about recently in response to International Trade improprieties in light of our current economic downturn. One need look no further than our own backyard and industrial Hemp prohibition to see protectionism in action. The products you consume today were given an unfair market advantage thanks to hemp prohibition. Let REAL free markets decide what Americans consume. It’s obvious through the outsourcing of jobs overseas that Corporatism is the norm in America and that these companies only have their bottom lines in mind.

Obama has championed the idea of a “green” economy. If hemp production is not “green” then nothing is!

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