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Police Uproot Downstate Hemp Crop!
Posted by FoM on July 25, 1999 at 09:34:53 PT
Source: Excite News
PEORIA, Ill., July 24 (UPI) The Illinois State Police teamed up with the Illinois National Guard this week to uproot more than 380,000 marijuana plants scattered across central Illinois. 
The plants were culled from Stark, Tazewell, Peoria, Woodford and Knox counties. But this wasn't your standard drug-fighting operation. The hardy plants are carryovers from a World War II-era government program that encouraged farmers to grow hemp in as a means of producing rope for the military. State police District 8 Sgt. Dale King told the Peoria Journal Star that Stark County was the site of a former hemp processing plant. He said, "The stuff is all over the place there along farm roads, between fields and along creek beds." King said the wild weeds contain relatively low levels of THC, the chemical that makes marijuana smokers feel high. But the legal consequences for possessing the plants are the same as those for higher grades of cannabis.Pubdate: July 24, 1999Copyright © 1995-1999 Excite Inc. 
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Comment #2 posted by Pat on July 27, 1999 at 02:50:36 PT
Thank you much, Mr. Gary Christ....
Hi Gary,I just wanted to thank you for your message here. AND to say I'm sorry to hear about your recent health problems. I hope you're doing better now. I always enjoyed reading your posts, Gary, and I missed you when you left the cannabis com politics board.Well... Gary, I'm not sure you'll get a chance to see my note here, but I wasn't able to drop you a line the other day when I first saw your post.Mr. Christ, while I wish all glorious living things all the best, I'd especially like to wish you well as it's clear from your posts that you're one of the best-of-the-best of all our good life forms on this wonderful planet... ~Sweet Mother Earth.:)~Thanks, Gary. All the Best to you, your family and yours....Pat Whelan.
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Comment #1 posted by Gary Christ on July 25, 1999 at 18:01:23 PT
A teachable moment.
Dear FoM, Mr. B, DdC, spirit, pat and the many faithful of faithfuls, who continue to educate the masses, a big Thank You from Woodstock Illinois, your communications and vibrations and prayers of good tiding have helped me through some dark and lonely times. I pray a blessing of God's Peace, Wisdom and Love to accompany you in all your walks, (and talks).   Though I virtually silenced myself for months due from several deficincies, this discusting act of spending tax-money to cut and burn the most important plant to civilization, returns me to activism. I Praise God!  I will demand an explanation from my legislators as to why this absolutely stupid prohibition of hemp is enforced!  I will ask for a reason my Illinois legislators voted unanomiosly to censor and arrest anyone in Illinois to seend messages on the internet about hemp, otherwise knownas cannabis.   I will pray they see the truth of the matter and respond with integrity. "LET MY PEOPLE GROW"!!!
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