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Many of you will be no doubt shocked to learn of this as I was, but it is for real. This sets a dangerous precedent for the Federal Government doing something which is utterly senseless, along with having to legitimate authority to do so. Sounds familiar, doesn't it???
Here's a link to your Congressional Reps
http://www.gunowners.org/cci.htm

Thanks

"Dear Friend,

The DEA has now officially announced that it intends to ban most hemp products in the United States, including food made from sterile (non-psychoactive) hemp seeds and hemp-based personal-care products. Whether or not you expressed your outrage in October when we first heard about the DEA's plans, please visit http://www.SaveHemp.org now to send an updated pre-written letter to all of your elected officials and the DEA.

(Many legislators who are now in office were not in office in October. In addition, legislators who contacted the DEA in October on behalf of their constituents were told that there wasn't any official proposal
to ban hemp -- which is no longer true. Visit http://www.SaveHemp.org
to send your second round of letters today!)

Under the DEA's proposed regulation, literally millions of Americans will be criminalized for possessing shampoos, lotions, and soaps that have the slightest amount of naturally occurring THC, the primary active ingredient in marijuana. (It is impossible to get a psychoactive effect from hemp-based shampoos and soaps, but the DEA is proposing to ban them nevertheless.)

Those who are arrested for shampoo or soap will face up to one year in federal prison and a $10,000 fine -- the same penalties they would face if they were arrested for possessing a small amount of marijuana.

If someone is arrested with a stockpile of (currently legal) hemp products that weighs hundreds of pounds, it stands to reason that
the defendant would face a 5- or 10-year mandatory minimum prison sentence -- or even the death penalty -- under federal law.

There are already 700,000 arrests every year in the U.S. for marijuana offenses. Our nation's beleaguered criminal justice system doesn't need the additional strain of processing 100,000's of additional arrests that will result from the illegal possession of non-psychoactive shampoos and soaps.

We don't need another front in our nation's failed war on drugs. Please oppose the DEA's hemp ban before it is allowed to take effect.

In urgency,
Coalition to Save Hemp http://www.SaveHemp.org

P.S. Please distribute this message as widely as you can. Thank you!
 
Upon further review, the play as called on the field has been reversed. It has been determined by instant replay, that the ball did remain in bounds, and falls under the category of civil rights.

Re-opening this thread to see where it goes.
 
So anyone here drink any hemp beer? How would you like to drink some of that on Saturday nite and take a test on Monday? Think the ACLU would come to your help?
 
It's late, I'm Drunk And I'll take this play.....

I was all against Hemp. I beleved it was nothing more than a easy way to get MJ legalized. Then I actualy started researching this product.
Hemp is possibly the best thing that could happen to farmers since the horse collar. Between the fibers and the hemp seed oil and the potential as a energy product this is a product that could potentialy revolutionize our economy, break our dependance on foriegn oil and maybe give us a reason to quit subsidizing farmers. And you can't get high from it.

I ask anyone to stop, gather the facts and make thier own decision on Hemp.
Sorta like what I ask about gun control..........
 
Meiji_man is right. Not only is hemp useful for it's fibre and other `organic' byproducts but the oil from the seeds can be used, for one use that is *actually* related to firearms, as a *very fine* lubricating oil for mechanisms that you don't to get gummed up. {Like trigger assys?) In fact hemp seed oil is considered to be a *direct* replacement for `Sperm Oil' in the watch and clock industry! (And is considered to be quite a bit better than any of the current synthetics that we now have available!)


Another thing that is good about growing hemp from a farmer's view is that it will reduce the amount of herbicides needed to keep weeds down. Grown as part of a rotation, like say hemp year 1... clover year 2... corn year 3... and then back again to hemp and the start of the cycle, the need for herbicides can be reduced, after the first cycle, to approximately 1/3rd what would `normally' be used. After three to four cycles the amount of herbicides can be reduced to between 1/6th to 1/4 or even less. The reason being that even though hemp actually is basically a weed itself it is a *very* `agressive' weed and actually effectively blocks other weeds from things like sunlight, water, and even some nutrients as it is growing. A *true* hemp field after harvesting is almost *totally* devoid of the majority of the weeds that most farmers usually have to fight with chemicals. And... After the harvest the remaining `residue' that is not processed can be tilled right back into the field and provide a fair amount of return for most of the nutrients the plants originally used while growning and also provide `vegetable matter' / `roughage' / `organic residue' which helps bind the soil together and both helps rebuild the soil and keeps it from blowing.


An `interesting?' `factoid'.... 1 acre of hemp can replace 10 acres of trees for pulp production.
 
it is not the hemp, it is the wacked out, non-showered loser with the nose ring spokesperson that is losing the legality war. regardless of the facts, an idea rejected, is a banned one soon.
 
Texas A & M had a test patch of hemp growing west of one of my old haunts. The local kids kept stealing the plants, thinking they were something else. :D. 'Bout a year ago, A&M put up a sign that said:
"You will need to smoke a cigarette the size of a telephone pole to get a buzz".
Click to expand...
:D

I think the DEA is overstepping it's bounds by a goodly margin with this, and needs to get slapped down.

LawDog
 
I would love to see hemp cultivated and I have never smoked pot. The value of this crop to american farmers is enormous. It would also save millions of trees from being turned into the paper that makes so much junk mail and trash magazines in this society. I am in the packaging business and would also like to see a renewable crop based product for my items. If we could let the forests go back into the hardwoods (slow growing) and stop cultivating pine and junk woods for paper products I would be thrilled.
 
I don't see the connection with Patriotism. Individualism, yes, but not Patriotism.

I am not in favor of legalized drugs, and I see this issue as a major division in those who support the Second Ammendment. I think you might be able to convince people that you have a right to be armed as a matter of self defense. You may be able to convince them that you have a right to get high as a form of personal entertainment. You will never convince them that it is a good idea for you to be high - and armed.

I see drugs and guns as incompatible. I don't think people will be freely able to have both in any kind of civilized society. At this point, I see legalized drugs mostly as a tool of the Left, designed to enslave us, whereas guns preserve our liberty.
 
In 1938, before it became illegal, through government agents LYING to congress, the hemp industry was about a billion dollar a year industry. That's according to an article in 'Popular Mechanics' in the February 1938 issue. And none of that industry had anything to do with the Marijuana everyone is so upset about. Here is a product that could change American life as we know it. Paper, oil, cloth and cosmetics are but a few items that can be made from this product.

Personally, my research has shown this was one of the wonder crops. Anybody doubting that, go read "The Emperor Wears No Clothes - The authoritative historical record of the cannabis plant, marijuana prohibition & how hemp can still save the world" by Jack Herer.

If you are truly against Hemp, then you haven't done proper research into this and have bought into the government line that 'it's bad mojo' and 'it can only be used as a drug'. That's the same thing as us complaining about the government lumping us together with the likes of Kliebold and Harris, the two whacked out kids that killed 13 people (and then themselves) at Columbine. To listen to the anti-gun people tell it, ANYONE who owns a gun should be locked up, because they have the POSSIBILITY of becoming K&H. You don't like people saying those OBVIOUS LIES about you, do you? So why would you accept the governments word about Hemp?

Do your own research and you will find that hemp could do all sorts of great things for this country. BUT, only at the expense of those who currently cut down trees, ruin our soil with chemicals to raise cotton and pollute our air with refineries refining fossil fuels. Did you know that Henry Ford used hemp to both fuel and manufacture an automobile, as covered in the 'Popular Mechanics' of December 1941.

And wars have been fought over this stuff. The war of 1812, when Napolean invaded Russia, was over the fact that Russia, which was fought because France didn't want Russian hemp to reach Britian, which would hamper the British Navy. Hemp was THE PRODUCT of choice to make the best sails, ropes and rigging.

Do you wear blue jeans? Levi Strauss started making jeans out of worn out sails in the mid-1800's and sold them on the west coast as pants that would rarely wear out. Why? Because the worn out sails he used to make his pants out of were made from hemp. It is a very sturdy product and properly made garments can last YOU YOUR WHOLE LIFE. Now why would someone NOT want us to buy pants that would last forever? The same reason we don't have tires that won't wear out, or cars that don't need fuel. Because then, those that sell us 'things' won't be able to make large amounts of money from us, when we wear out a pair of pants every couple of years (that's how long it takes me to wear out a pair of jeans).

So, reconsider this subject, if you will, because this goes hand in hand with the lies that are being told about gun owners. WE aren't that bad. And neither is someone who wants hemp to be legal. And in regard to Marijuana. It's just the 'love' generations beer. So, all those who are beer drinkers, consider this. Where would you all be if we hadn't repealed prohibition?? Answer: The EXACT same place as all those pot smokers are now. So, even your moral argument goes out the window on that score.
 
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