There's no reason he should be allowed to grow hemp.

ABOUT TIME!

First medical marijuana, now industrial hemp? What's next, administrative cannibis?

Farmers sue DEA for the right to grow industrial strength hemp.

\ That'd be awesome.

Muta: There's no reason he shouldn't be allowed to grow hemp.

FTFY

Marijuana, which has only recreational and limited medical uses, is the shiftless counterpart to the go-getter hemp.

Even the plant is stoned.

Legalize it.

Hm, two groups I can't stand... Farmers and the DEA.

Well lets go farmers, I guess.

Cool, legalize it and then they can get the SCHIP money from taxing weed instead of cigs!

lukelightning: First medical marijuana, now industrial hemp? What's next, administrative cannibis?

God, I hope so!

/is an administrator
//could use a fat one right about now

Take THAT, William Randolph Hearst!

DEA seems to be able to enforce laws.
ICE not so much... hmmm....

Discrimination against US citizens

Hemp is a dangerous plant...

/and I forgot the rest of it
//see? I got stoned just talking about it.

First medical marijuana, now industrial hemp? What's next, administrative cannibis?

I hope either commercial ganja, or residential hashish

/checks the local zoning board

Hey, shouldn't that tag be SPLIFFY?

/Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk
//almost 4:20 CST
///actually don't do pot
////srsly, can't stand the strff
//but I do understand the medical purposes of it!
//Somebody stop me! These slashies are taking over my life!!! :P

Is it me, or is that article just holding back "POT IS BAD! POT SMOKERS ARE EVIL DRUG USERS WHO RAPE CHILDREN AND VOTE GREEN!"

/maybe just paranoid
//DEA sux

Spliffy!

Sir Charles: Hm, two groups I can't stand... Farmers and the DEA.

Well lets go farmers, I guess.

Farmers? Really?? Have a bad experience in corn field once?

Sir Charles
Hm, two groups I can't stand... Farmers and the DEA.

Well lets go farmers, I guess.

Yeah, those people that grow the food you eat. Geeze, what's their problem.

Hemp fiber is incredibly useful, durable, and strong. I've been waiting for this for a long time. Hemp blended cloth will make longer lasting clothes than cotton can.

But if you're handling hemp rope, you'd better have gloves. Because if your hands slip a little, those fibers will stick you like splinters, and they hurt like a motherfarker.

First off, industrial hemp is NOT the same as mj. Not at all.

busy chillin': Yeah, those people that grow the food you eat. Geeze, what's their problem.

Living around farmer politics my whole life... It's the huge government subsidies they get, and all they do is complain for more and more... They've been paid to _not_ grow food in order to keep the prices artificially high since the dustbowl era.

/oklahoma, north dakota, minnesota
//farmers can suck it

ExRedStater: Sir Charles: Hm, two groups I can't stand... Farmers and the DEA.

Well lets go farmers, I guess.

Farmers? Really?? Have a bad experience in corn field once?

Farm subsidies.

Onager: Is it me, or is that article just holding back "POT IS BAD! POT SMOKERS ARE EVIL DRUG USERS WHO RAPE CHILDREN AND VOTE GREEN!"

/maybe just paranoid
//DEA sux

Pot smokers don't vote at all.

lukelightning: What's next, administrative cannibis?

It's better to have some fat administrative cannibis than a fat administrative assistant.

Serioulsy, they should just legalize it. I don't even smoke it, and I can see that it should be legally available to adults. Just treat it like alcohol: Tax it, have an age restriction, no driving while on it, etc.

Second, its a plant. A living thing. How can you make growing a plant illegal? They grow in the wild.

From TFA: "When it comes to laws, we don't have a dog in that fight," he said.

Really? That's the metaphor you're going to use?

/Michael Vick unavailable for comment.

ExRedStater: Have a bad experience in corn field once?

Yeah, this one summer...



/obscure?

"ONDCP cautions that, historically, the hemp movement has been almost entirely funded by the well-organized and well-funded marijuana legalization lobby," said spokesman Tom Riley. "All we do is ask people not to be naive about what's really going on here.



my favorite part.

thats some Vulcan mind meld on this guy, its like they wave their finger and they listen to him, or something.

Whatthefark Quote 2007-10-18 04:48:10 PM
lukelightning: What's next, administrative cannibis?

It's better to have some fat administrative cannibis than a fat administrative assistant.

FTFY

***
The February 1938 issue of Popular Mechanics magazine heralded hemp as the "new billion-dollar crop,"
***

And THAT'S why there is a vague and interminable war on drugs.

Hearst, Dow, Bayer... None of them want any natural competition.

Yay!

I love my hemp clothing! I got this shirt:


and a bunch of others. Comfy and they wear like iron.

Hooray Hemp!

Englebert Slaptyback: Take THAT, William Randolph Hearst!

THIS

vernonFL: First off, industrial hemp is NOT the same as mj. Not at all.

But it sets a bad example for the children, if we let the farmers grow it. All vegetables, actually, but with the whole "eating" thing, I guess we can let them slide.

Sir Charles: ExRedStater: Have a bad experience in corn field once?

Yeah, this one summer...



/obscure?

Not at all - I was shooting for a reply with a Malachai reference.

"All we do is ask people not to be naive about what's really going on here."

You mean about the people who kept hemp illegal all these years using MJ as an excuse so they could monopolize the cotton market?

vernonFL: Second, its a plant. A living thing. How can you make growing a plant illegal? They grow in the wild.

It's like, a plant, man. From the earth. It's like, all-natural bro....

Englebert Slaptyback 2007-10-18 04:42:45 PM

Take THAT, William Randolph Hearst!

The lumber industry has peta to worry about now. It might make it.

Industrial hemp has an insignificant amount of THC. Maybe if you smoked a entire hay-bail full of it you *might* get a slight buzz off it.

Sir Charles

Living around farmer politics my whole life... It's the huge government subsidies they get, and all they do is complain for more and more... They've been paid to _not_ grow food in order to keep the prices artificially high since the dustbowl era.

/oklahoma, north dakota, minnesota
//farmers can suck it

I don't really know all the ins and outs of subsidies, but my uncles farmed and worked their asses off and barely made enough to get by. It is a hard and obviously thankless job.

I guess you can always grow your own food.

Court cases have ruled that the only reason congress can control marijuana is the interstate commerce clause, and that clause only applies because it is a drug. Since industrial hemp isn't a drug, then congress cannot claim control via the commerce clause (at least going by previous court cases), and so the DEA really doesn't have any right to limit it. The argument that allowing hemp may make marijuana enforcement harder may well be true, but that isn't relevent to the authority they have to regulate it.

stonent: Industrial hemp has an insignificant amount of THC. Maybe if you smoked a entire hay-bail full of it you *might* get a slight buzz off it.

That smacks of 'dare ya'....

Free country, eh?

Figures... regulation is a load of shiat. It's a farkin' plant!! A PLANT!!!

pot is bad for you.

I knew this guy who smoked it once, and like 10 years later, he died.

lesson learned

busy chillin': I guess you can always grow your own food.

But that's why we have farmers. I don't see where you're going?

busy chillin':
I don't really know all the ins and outs of subsidies, but my uncles farmed and worked their asses off and barely made enough to get by.


Something tells me if they had been allowed to grow Hemp and Cannabis... they wouldn't have had any money problems.

Jubeebee: But if you're handling hemp rope, you'd better have gloves. Because if your hands slip a little, those fibers will stick you like splinters, and they hurt like a motherfarker.

See, we told you pot was dangerous. NEXT!

I picked up a bunch of hemp clothes from the Patagonia outlet store in Dillon Montana. Some of the most comfortable clothes I have. Love 'em. If you are anywhere near Dillon, I highly recommend stopping there. Super cheap prices.

Weed. Is there anything it can't do?