Not Too Bright: Farmer And Others Arrested For Planting Hemp In The Lawn Of A DEA Office.
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - Among the six people arrested for planting hemp seeds on the lawn of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration offices was a 51-year-old North Dakota farmer.
Wayne Hauge and Republican state legislator David Monson received North Dakota’s first state licenses to grow industrial hemp in 2007. But they’ve never received approval from the DEA.
Hemp is used to make paper, lotion and other products. It’s also related to the illegal drug marijuana.
Proponents argue it contains too little of the mind-altering chemical THC to make people high.
Hauge says he took part in Tuesday’s protest in Virginia “to show that hemp is just a crop.”
He would like to add hemp to his other crops, which include lentils, barley and durum.
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I have several articles of clothing, mostly for outdoor use, that´s made of hemp. I´m very happy with the quality of the cloth and workmanship.
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Smoking marijuana? Personally, I don´t give a fuck. Seems to me if you can legally go to the store and buy bottles of liquid - which I do - that turns your liver into a brick, why all the fuss?
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Legalize it. Show you´re 21. Tax it. Easy Peasy.
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Your opinion and mileage may vary.
Hemp was effectively outlawed by the oil companies because it is truly a renewable source for petroleum type products. Industrial hemp will do nothing more than give you a headache if you smoke it.
I don’t think marijuana is noxious as much as the hippies are.
http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php < This is a website of dedicated, informed officers of the law, nationwide, who believe that the War on Drugs is 1. A gargantuan waste of hard earned taxed dollars, and 2. a violation of an individuals right to control their bodies, and a false control over peoples choices.
Smoking pot hasn’t killed anyone. ever. The libertarian in me says, fuck the law, fire one up.
My main concern is that people give credence to laws that are illegal by their own very nature.
By what constitutional authority did they derive the ability to regulate a plant?
Apparently by the same laws that the Founders required farmers to use a certain percentage of their farms for hemp production.