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Politics : Piffer Thread on Political Rantings and Ravings -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (1076)	5/15/2001 6:08:08 PM
From: Oral Roberts	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14610

Even crazier then the medical aspect they won't even allow WI farmers to grow hemp which could be quite a cash crop for some folks that could use a break. Now before you start laughing I'm talking the industrial stuff:) Had a plant guy from the University try to explain that the THC content is so low in industrial that if you smoked a 40 acre field you would die of smoke inhalation but still wouldn't get high, they didn't care. Tried to explain that the industrial would cross pollinate and ruin any quality stuff nearby, still no go. They are fools IMO. Hemp up until after WWII was the cash crop for WI. Never to be again I guess.

To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (1076)	5/15/2001 9:45:19 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 14610

I think (I hope) more and more people are coming to this position. I suppose people must have once thought outlawing all these things was a good idea, but having had to endure the drug war and its consequences, its hard to see why now. Almost all of this stuff as legal at the beginning of this century and most of it up until the thirties. Somehow the Revolution was successfully prosecuted, the Constitution was written, the industrial base of the country was established and the US became a world power in spite of the presence of these evil agents. The government loves these laws. It have used them repeatedly to expand its powers. Witness RICO. What was originally supposed to be a law to fight the "war on drugs" is now used as a catch-all to prosecute cases that otherwise are not crimes.