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Ferre
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 Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 9:01 pm Post subject: Hope for hemp? |
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http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=411727
Hope for hemp?
A look at one victim of the war on drugs
By Sena Christian
Although smoking industrial hemp will get you about as buzzed as smoking wheat, “War on Drugs” hysteria in the United States has created a conundrum for those who’d like to grow it.
Hemp can be fashioned into eco-friendly clothing, paper, plastics, body-care products, building materials and energy alternatives. It’s also a profitable crop for American farmers. But politics have complicated attempts to tap into this annually renewable natural resource. Ever since the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 placed strict controls on its farming, hemp remains illegal to grow in the United States without a hard-to-obtain permit.
“Every product derived from [hemp] is legal but the plant itself is illegal. That’s crazy,” said Steve Levine, president of the Hemp Industries Association.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency classifies hemp as a Schedule I controlled substance. Failing to distinguish between varieties of Cannabis sativa, the label groups hemp and marijuana together even though industrial hemp contains almost no THC—the chief intoxicant of pot. Levine quipped that a poppy-seed bagel probably has more opium than a hemp cookie has THC. He also said that you could smoke several pounds of industrial hemp and still test negative on a drug test because hemp’s .03 percent THC content is nothing compared with 3 percent to 15 percent THC levels in marijuana flowers.
“It’s what politicians try to hide behind,” said Kyle Pulliam, owner of Hemp in the Heartland in Old Sacramento.
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reverendquenzer
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an awesome article but I wonder how much of their info was sourced right out of Jack Herers book?
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| reverendquenzer wrote: |
| an awesome article but I wonder how much of their info was sourced right out of Jack Herers book? |
The new edition of Jack's book has been available for almost two weeks.
In addtion to new information, the layout of the book was changed slightly to incorporate ideas from the CD-ROM.
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