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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: American Spirit who wrote (524752)1/15/2004 9:32:44 PM
From: PartyTime  Read Replies (4) of 769670
 
>>>Pot ought to be decriminalized and hemp ought to be made completely legal so we don't need to cut down our forests for paper and fiber. Hemp also makes fuel.<<<

Has anyone in government seriously considered the implications of a hemp industry in the USA? You're right AS: a) medicine; b) paper, clothing, ropes, and a wide range of manufacturing uses; and, c) the oil from the hemp seeds could be used for fuel.

Does anyone think the pharmaceutical lobby, the timber/paper lobby and the oil lobby would like never ever to see this happen? You bet! Legal hemp would mean a major upset in the balance of industry for insiders who already have a sure thing.

'Tis too bad because small farmers (however many of 'em we have left in America--you hear me GOPwingers?) would have a second crop as hemp grows on marginal lands. The greening of the planet would get a boost and we'd be less dependent on dirty oil.

Certainly drug-war-hawk/build-up-the-prison-industry Bush would never consider this, and it's very likely neither Clark nor Gephardt nor Edwards would either. I think the other Democrat candidates might at least study the possibility, but the lobby would become too great for them to overcome it.

Anti-hemp laws are probably the most counterproductive ones on the books!
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