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  Hemp -- Myth and Possibility

Posted by CN Staff on August 04, 2006 at 11:12:45 PT
Editorial 
Source: San Francisco Chronicle 

San Francisco -- Two years ago, a federal appellate court cleared the way for goods and foods containing hemp seed and oil to be sold and consumed in the United States. Today, hemp is used in a wide array of popular products, from soap to snack foods, from paper to shower curtains, from jeans to auto parts. Yet the cultivation of industrial hemp remains illegal in this nation.
Why? Two words: mythology and confusion. Industrial hemp suffers discrimination by association with its cannabis cousin -- marijuana. The federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970 effectively banned the production of all cannabis plants regardless of the level of the psychoactive ingredient THC. The levels of THC in industrial hemp are so low that it would be almost impossible to smoke or digest enough to give someone even a mild buzz. Even so, the irrationality that sometimes characterizes our "war on drugs" has allowed foreign hemp farmers to exploit the vacuum created by the prevailing ignorance about its clear distinctions from marijuana. Canada lifted its 50-year ban on industrial-hemp cultivation in 1998. It took a few years for Canadian farmers to refine their techniques, but today their industrial hemp is considered "the best in the world," according to David Bronner, president of Dr. Bronner's Magical Soaps, an Escondido-based company that uses hemp to make its soaps smoother and milder on the skin.  Snipped:Complete Article: http://tinyurl.com/hb62pSource: San Francisco Chronicle (CA)Published: Friday, August 4, 2006 - Page B - 10Copyright: 2006 Hearst Communications Inc.Contact: letters sfchronicle.comWebsite: http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/CannabisNews Hemp Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/hemp.shtml

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Comment #40 posted by FoM on August 07, 2006 at 07:08:42 PT
afterburner
We are getting our firewood now for winter so we will have plenty to make a nice fire. I can open up windows and crank up the music so we can even have music to listen too. Maybe we can even roast some marshmallows. 
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Comment #39 posted by Jose Melendez on August 07, 2006 at 04:00:59 PT
ekim
Yes, thanks. I'm already in training . . .
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Comment #38 posted by afterburner on August 06, 2006 at 20:36:56 PT
FoM #35
"talk under our tree" & "a big bon fire" Excellent!
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Comment #37 posted by unkat27 on August 06, 2006 at 13:40:43 PT
Nailing Anslinger
I managed to do some decent research on Harry Anslinger while composing the most recent article for MadKrow's Drug War pages, concerning the connections between hemp and reefer madness.Anslinger was nothing but a coniving, shrewd, disgusting corporate fascist thug that somehow managed to scare himself a position as the head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics by appealing to the fear and racist white supremacist majority in early 1920s US Congress.But the reefer madness was just fear-mongering BS. His ulterior motive was $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
On Hemp, Cannabis, and the Oil Pigs
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Comment #36 posted by ekim on August 06, 2006 at 13:35:00 PT
Thank you Jose-- did you see this
We pay $7.50 per engagement set up by the person--this will increase in the
next 6 months...I will personally train people on how this is done...very
easy work and can be done at any time of the day...late at night, early
morning, doesn't matter...emails can be sent at any time of the day to orgs
across the US and Canada...
MikeMike Smithson
Speakers Bureau Coordinator
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
131 Flint Path, Syracuse, New York 13219-3403
speakers leap.cc  http://www.leap.cc
Cell: 315-243-5844  Fax: 315-488-3630"First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said
nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social
Democrat, so I did nothing. Then came the trade unionists, but I was not a
trade unionist. And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I
did little. Then when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up
for me." German Protestant Pastor Martin Niemöller 1892-1984
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Comment #35 posted by FoM on August 06, 2006 at 12:58:20 PT
afterburner 
When you and Mr. and Mrs. Toker00 are here we will have to go sit and talk under our tree. We want to have a big bon fire one night. I haven't sat around a fire and just relaxed for a long time. 
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Comment #34 posted by afterburner on August 06, 2006 at 12:12:56 PT
whig #29 & FoM #30
Yes exactly, I once tasted some organic home-grown Nicaraguan ganja. It was the closest thing to a "peaceful, easy feeling" that I have yet experienced. BTW, it was legal at the time due to court rulings, and I experienced *no* paranoia, absolutely none!Our ancestors used to sit under special trees on a regular basis. Ohio once had a famous elm tree that endured for many years before it eventually got sick and had to be cut down."Logan Elm State Memorial is said to be the site where, in 1774, Chief Logan of the Mingo tribe delivered his eloquent speech on Indian-white relations. The speech was supposedly delivered under a large elm tree. Considered to be one of the largest elms in the U. S., the tree stood 65 feet tall, with a trunk circumference of 24 feet and foliage spread of 180 feet. It died in 1964 from damage by blight and storms. "The tree's former location is marked by a plaque. Other plaques and monuments in the park honor Native Americans and early Ohio settlers."
http://www.stateparks.com/logan_elm.html"Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands." --The Village Smithy [first stanza] by Longfellow. more...
http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?7,154938,160818"I think that I will never see
A poem lovely as a tree." --Trees [first two lines] by Joyce Kilmer. more...
http://tinyurl.com/nzqecWhat was Chautauqua? 
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/traveling-culture/essay.htmExcerpt:{
What was Chautauqua? Theodore Roosevelt called it "the most American thing in America," Woodrow Wilson described it during World War I as an "integral part of the national defense," and William Jennings Bryan deemed it a "potent human factor in molding the mind of the nation." Conversely, Sinclair Lewis derided it as "nothing but wind and chaff and...the laughter of yokels," William James found it "depressing from its mediocrity," and critic Gregory Mason dismissed it as "infinitely easier than trying to think." However Chautauqua was characterized, it elicited strong reactions and emotions.
 
There are few Americans left who remember the Circuit Chautauqua but there was a time when those words conjured up a host of images. To its supporters it meant a chance for the community to gather for three to seven days to enjoy a course of lectures on a variety of subjects. Audiences also saw classic plays and Broadway hits and heard a variety of music from Metropolitan Opera stars to glee clubs to bell ringers. Many saw their first movies in the Circuit tents. Most important, the Circuit Chautauqua experience was critical in stimulating thought and discussion on important political, social and cultural issues of the day. Founded in 1874 by businessman Lewis Miller and Methodist minister, later Bishop, John Heyl Vincent, Chautauqua's initial incarnation was in western New York state on Lake Chautauqua. The programming first focused on training Sunday school teachers but quickly expanded its range and was the first to offer correspondence degrees in the United States. This summer camp for families that promised "education and uplift" was too popular not to be copied and in less than a decade independent Chautauquas, often called assemblies, sprang up across the country beside lakes and in groves of trees. As with the early lyceum movements and Chautauqua assemblies, the goal of the Circuit Chautauquas was to offer challenging, informational, and inspirational stimulation to rural and small-town America. 
} Today, it seems to survive to in hemp and cannabis festivals."Chautauquas can be viewed in the context of the populist ferment of the late 19th century. Manifestos such as the "Populist Party Platform" voiced a disdain for political corruption and championed the plight of the common people in the face of the rich and powerful."
--Chautauqua - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChautauquaInteresting, many of the same problems exist today, 114 years later:Primary Source: Populist Party Platform (1892)
http://tinyurl.com/h2h9g
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Comment #33 posted by Jose Melendez on August 06, 2006 at 11:31:08 PT
missing link
Re: comments #17, 19:http://tinyurl.com/kkwnu
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Comment #32 posted by ekim on August 06, 2006 at 11:21:32 PT
Good going AB--Did anyone see any coverage this 
LEAP Event Comes as West Hollywood Makes Marijuana Enforcement Lowest PriorityFor Immediate Release: Thursday, July 20, 2006. Contact: Alberto Mendoza (213) 201-4785 Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), an organization of current and former members of law enforcement who believe the war on drugs has failed, will hold an event, “Law Enforcement Indicts the War of Drugs” on Thursday, July 27 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Drug Policy Alliance’s Los Angeles office, 610 Ardmore Ave. At the event, LEAP will offer a radical alternative to the failed war on drugs. The premier of LEAP’s new 12-minute video will be followed by a panel of law enforcement and drug policy experts.
http://www.leap.cc/events
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Comment #31 posted by FoM on August 06, 2006 at 10:17:20 PT
whig
It is amazing to see.
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Comment #30 posted by FoM on August 06, 2006 at 10:12:57 PT
afterburner
Thank you for sharing that with us. We have a special tree we planted when we broke ground in 79. It's now a big pin oak tree. We sit under it and talk and it is so special. 
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Comment #29 posted by whig on August 06, 2006 at 10:09:11 PT
afterburner
I've long felt that plants have consciousness. Not the same kind of consciousness as we do, and at a very different timescale, but real intelligence nonetheless. I do believe that cannabis is a thinking, feeling, spiritual plant that is trying to guide us and help us in many ways. Have you noticed that different effects are often felt depending on where and how the cannabis was grown? A plant that was brought up in a safe and loving environment is kinder and gentler in some ways than one that was raised in a fearful and dangerous place.Plants communicate with us through being consumed, whether we eat them or smoke them. And not just "psychoactive" plants, but consider how organic fruits and vegetables make you feel after eating them versus commercially grown alternatives.But if this is hard to swallow (no pun intended) you can see how plants are conscious by growing them and observing how they respond to their environment. You can take a plant and give it some water and sunlight and watch it stand up and stretch -- if you don't believe it because it happens too slowly put a camcorder on and play it back at a faster speed. It's just amazing to see.
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Comment #28 posted by afterburner on August 06, 2006 at 09:55:16 PT
ekim #2 & FoM #15
ekim, keep throwing up this truth, like a Madison Avenue ad:{LEAP Speaker James Gierach is a practicing attorney who has experienced the effects of the "War on Drugs" from both sides of the legal system. After 35 years of courtroom and broad-based legal experience, Jim has concluded, "Not only does prohibition not work but it is prohibition (not drugs) that is at the hub of most U.S. crises worth talking about: gangs, guns, crime, prisons, AIDS, health care, corruption, and eroding of our civil liberties."}"I am a tree hugger. I don't literally hug trees but I love trees." --FoMOne thing I learned from my dad was a love of trees: he loved to build with them, he loved to burn them, he loved to visit them in forests, he loved to plant them in his own yard. The Druids of England used to and some still do worship in the forest. Apparently, this is the origin of the "superstition," knock on wood. I once saw a Scandinavian art exhibition of spiritual scenes set in forests. After I saw a girl friend of mine lovingly touch the leaves of a plant as she passed by it, I tried it and experienced a sense of connection unlike any other, like talking to plants but more profound. One day this philosophical "tree hugger" decided to try it physically and I sensed the power of a life spent rooted for decades weathering the storms of life and its splendors!
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Comment #27 posted by FoM on August 05, 2006 at 18:27:03 PT
JSM
It's good to see you.
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Comment #26 posted by JSM on August 05, 2006 at 17:40:01 PT
Mayan (God is in the Magic Mushrooms)
It is arguable that the mystical experience is at the root of all religions and that certain substances do lead to that. It is beyond me to know.But I do know that taking LSD (more than 30 years ago) led to an experience that has shaped my outlook and attitude ever since. Ultimately, it seems to me, that we do not find these substances, they find us when we are ready and a serious change is needed. Those who hate and whose power is based on fear (anyone we know?) ultimately will lose. We are meant to realize who and what we really are and nothing will stop that growth. It is only a matter of time and it looks like that time is growing very near. It goes without saying that Cannabis is part of that change and that certainly causes great fear among those in authority as it does threaten their power.  
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Comment #25 posted by whig on August 05, 2006 at 17:02:25 PT
unkat27
The Mazen Kerba video was powerful.
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Comment #24 posted by unkat27 on August 05, 2006 at 14:37:02 PT
Anslinger's Real Facts Revealed
Found just what I was looking for. "Secretary Mellon, Anslinger's appointer and boss for two years, through his Mellon Financial Corporation was a prime backer of the DuPont petrochemical company, to which the "New Billion-Dollar Crop" of hemp (Popular Mechanics, publication date: February, 1938) presented a serious competitive threat. There is some belief that Anslinger, DuPont petrochemical interests and William Randolph Hearst together created the highly sensational anti-marijuana campaign to eliminate hemp as an industrial competitor. Indeed, Anslinger did not himself consider marijuana a serious threat to American society until in the fourth year of his tenure (1934), at which point an anti-marijuana campaign aimed at alarming the public abruptly became his primary focus."Wikipedia covers the subject well and straight to the point at this link.
The campaign against marijuana
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Comment #23 posted by unkat27 on August 05, 2006 at 13:50:35 PT
Museman
Thanx for the follow-up support. I'm putting an article on this subject together for Madkrow's Drug War pages. I'm researching it online, so if you have any good links to articles that specify these major points they would be much appreciated.
Lebanese Cartoonist Mazen Kerba (inside Beirut)
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Comment #22 posted by FoM on August 05, 2006 at 13:46:46 PT
ekim
Hopefully they will understand and listen. This was a common discussion during the 70s. I was proud of my little VW Bug. I tried to help with saving gas because of the shortages we lived thru. SUV's came along and here we are now worrying again about fuel. The problem is worse now though because we have Muslins who control a lot of the oil really mad at us. 
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Comment #21 posted by ekim on August 05, 2006 at 13:36:47 PT
good going FoM
I hope that soon those that want our vote will begin to take up these issues. This country is in dire need of good ol fashion American can dones.
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Comment #20 posted by museman on August 05, 2006 at 11:26:53 PT
unKat
"I'd like to point out that it is more probable that cannabis was made illegal after reefer madness so that hemp could be made illegal because of its close lineage with cannabis."It's not probable, it's a fact. In 1933 a hemp pulp mill was invented that would make hemp paper cheaper than wood fiber. Mr. W.R. Hearst at that time owned mumerous newspapers, pulp mills, and logging companies. He, along with J.P.Lily Drug Co., and the MCA, hired James Anslinger to lobby congress and 'make hemp illegal.' This was done with the scare stories associated with marijuana that we have come to know and ridicule. Read Jack Herer's book 'The Emporer Wears No Clothes.' The info is all there, including copies of the Congressional sessions where Anslinger claims that smoking pot makes, chinese, mexican, indian, black, irish, and any other not W.A.S.P. men, want to go out immediately, and rape white women - see the portrayals in Reefer Madness.
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Comment #19 posted by FoM on August 05, 2006 at 10:02:56 PT
ekim
The link didn't work for me either.
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Comment #18 posted by FoM on August 05, 2006 at 10:01:40 PT
ekim
I hope that we can see changes in our country. I think about land and how it can yield so many things for us. We can use it but not kill it. It will comeback and do it all over again. The Chinese have to buy some herbs here in the USA because they don't have anyway to replenish what they need now. The trees, grass and plants give us oxygen too. Why have they fought so long against nature helping us instead of oil? Oil pollutes particularly if it is spilled and we know that it has caused terrible damage. It also causes cancer. I guess only eternity will explain how we got so far off track.
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Comment #17 posted by ekim on August 05, 2006 at 09:43:37 PT
here is story --- can not get to the page -- geeee
Biomass and Solar Technologies Lauded
 http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2004/3404_technologies_lauded.html
 Monday, July 12, 2004Golden, Colo. - Two technologies developed by the U.S. Department of
Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory are among this year's most
significant innovations, as judged by Research & Development (R&D) Magazine.The Laboratory's two R&D 100 Awards for 2004 are for an innovative,
lower-cost method for transforming plant material into the sugars that can
be used to make fuels and chemicals, and a thin-film solar cell that
produces electricity directly from sunlight, which has greater efficiency,
and is lighter weight and more flexible than previous devices.This year's announcement brings to 37 the number of R&D 100 Awards garnered
by NREL."Once again, the technologies developed by our Laboratory's researchers are
being acknowledged for their importance to the nation," said Stan Bull, NREL
associate director for science and technology. "It's particularly gratifying
that the R&D 100 Awards this year include two NREL technologies that can
enhance our nation's energy security and reduce our reliance on foreign
sources of oil."The Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Biomass Cellulose to Sugars technology is
expected to allow a wide range of biomass resources to be used to produce
energy and chemicals. It is an important step toward realizing the potential
of bio-refineries-in which plant and waste materials are used to produce an
array of fuels and chemicals, analogous to an oil refinery today.Through this technology, the cost of converting cellulosic biomass into
usable sugars can be reduced by more than 20 times per gallon of ethanol
produced.The award is shared by NREL, Genencor International and Novozymes Biotech,
Inc. NREL researchers who worked on this project included Michael Himmel,
Jim McMillan, Dan Schell, Jody Farmer, Nancy Dowe and Rafael Nieves.Also recognized for 2004 are light and flexible thin-film copper indium
gallium diselenide (CIGS) photovoltaic modules, which can be manufactured in
various sizes and have a compact, foldable design that allows for easy
deployment, transport and storage.As a result, the modules have twice the power-to-weight ratio, and three
times the power-to-size ratio as competing products. Because of this, they
are especially suited for military applications, portable power for consumer
and public use, boating and other marine applications and building-related
uses, such as for bus shelters and in PV-integrated roofing.The award is shared by NREL, Global Solar Energy and ITN Energy Systems.
NREL researchers who worked on this project included Harin Ullal, Ken
Zweibel and Bolko von Roedern.NREL is the U.S. Department of Energy's premier laboratory for renewable
energy research and development and a leading laboratory for energy
efficiency R&D. NREL is operated for DOE by Midwest Research Institute and
Battelle.For further information contact NREL Public Affairs at (303) 275-4090.NR-3404
http://www.minorml.org
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Comment #16 posted by ekim on August 05, 2006 at 09:27:00 PT
yes unkat -- bulls Eye
Yes is it not true that no news paper has run a story telling the public of the potential of Cannabis for Cellulose Ethanol. Its never mentioned just rope and soap and dope. http://cannabisnews.com/news/22/thread22007.shtmlComment #24 posted by ekim on July 19, 2006 at 20:30:15 PT
David Garman tell (KS Edu) what 10 fold means.
pleasse Zac give some thought to having Kansas be a energy independant car
transportation fuel producer.
---first find out what and how much a 10-fold improvement in the economics
of breaking down cellulosic material (plant matter) and other complex
carbohydrates into fermentable sugars, means in real money. like how much
does ethanol cost to make.---- second invite someone from the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden
Co come to your school and talk about these new Industrial enzymes. Remember
this work has been going on for several years it cost 17 million for three
year contract between the Gov't and Genencor back in 2000. If you google
Genencor --it has been sold to a Danish food com. you might want to ask the
NREL rep if this still stands - "The United States is the world's leader in
agriculture and biotechnology and the Department's biomass research and
development efforts take advantage of that position,"Genencor Meets First Technical Milestone in Biomass to Ethanol Project
http://www.ethanol-gec.org/fall2001/fall15.html Genencor Labs, Palo Alto,
California Genencor International, Inc. announced that it has achieved its
first technical milestone in its three-year contract with the U.S.
Department of Energy Biofuels Program. Genencor developed and validated
processes for improved cellulase enzymes that meet the intended objective at
one-half the cost of currently available technologies.http://cannabisnews.com/news/21/thread21843.shtmlHemp 77% celluloseWhile corn is primarily used to distill ethanol, a new facility in Spain
will convert wheat straw as the ethanol's feedstock.The full story is available at
http://www.renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story?id=35238This is a pdf overview of NREL/Genencor work from 2003.
http://www.eere.energy.gov/biomass/pdfs/genencor_esp_review.pdfHere is an NREL Press release about Genencor/NREL winning a Top 100 R&D
award in 2004.
http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2004/3404_technologies_lauded.html
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Comment #15 posted by FoM on August 05, 2006 at 09:21:34 PT
afterburner
I am a tree hugger. I don't literally hug trees but I love trees. We are selling some of our trees and I actually feel sad but I know that thinning the large trees out will help the woods grow and be healthier. When I see them dragging the trees out what will make it tolerable is I know that some of the wood will be used to make people's homes nicer so my trees will maybe make pretty trim for someone and the young trees will grow strong.
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Comment #14 posted by unkat27 on August 05, 2006 at 09:11:35 PT
Synthetics from Oil made Millionaires
I'd like to point out that it is more probable that cannabis was made illegal after reefer madness so that hemp could be made illegal because of its close lineage with cannabis.Why make hemp illegal if it doesn't have the THC that cannabis has?The answer to that is obvious in all of the multiple millions that the oil barons made when synthetics made from oil replaced all those hemp products. Follow the money.It was a case of economic and corporate fascism in which the US politicians and Congress sold out for big money.
Madkrow Drug War Pages
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Comment #13 posted by John Tyler on August 05, 2006 at 08:13:06 PT
Re comment #5
God is in the 'shrooms. After you have had a profound experience, like merging with God, becoming one with the universe, and experiencing an indescribable sense of peace, love, and understanding that rocks your very soul, who could not have their perspective changed at least a little bit? 
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Comment #12 posted by afterburner on August 05, 2006 at 07:58:05 PT
The More Prohibitions... The More Laws...
"57.2 The more prohibitions there are, the poorer people become. The more weapons there are, the darker things become.
 "57.3 The more laws there are, the greater the number of scoundrels." 
--Tao Teh Ching - Walker Translation
http://wayist.org/ttc%20compared/walker.htm#57
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Comment #11 posted by afterburner on August 05, 2006 at 07:52:16 PT
Treehugger: Hemp Plastic: Not Just For Sandals...
Treehugger: Hemp Plastic: Not Just For Sandals Anymore
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/08/hemp_plastic_no.php
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Comment #10 posted by Hope on August 05, 2006 at 06:38:03 PT
  Or
The Weekly or Bi-Weekly Assumption.A source for all the news of the community...and beyond.The Assumption.A paper you can trust to have all the news and more.
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Comment #9 posted by Hope on August 05, 2006 at 06:36:50 PT
In fancy script...
The Daily Assumption
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Comment #8 posted by Hope on August 05, 2006 at 06:33:40 PT
Busybodies and Puritans
They are fearfully dangerous people...I think. They are not to be trusted in any way, shape, form, or fashion. Their object and obsession is to run everyone else's lives and make them pay like they were hell on wheels themselves if somebody fails to fall in line like they say.Somethings are obvious crimes. They are all pretty well mapped out in "Do not murder. Do not steal. Do not bear false witness (no matter how righteous you think it is...a certain principal of a certain highschool comes to mind...that planted drugs in a kids locker (he knew he was doing something...so he felt it was the way to catch him and was ultimately a righteous thing to do. So he planted some confiscated weed in his locker that he had been holding on to, and called the drug dogs. aarggh.) Every Puritan likes to say, "Our laws are based on "Christian" principals and based on the Ten Commandments and "In God We Trust"."They are the same people that think there should be at least a few more commandments...like somehow their God made a mistake....but they won't talk about it...they'll just make up some more.Yesterday my sister suggested that she and I start a little newspaper like one that comes out of a neighboring county. They actually talk about who's been constipated in that newspaper. I promise.Any way, what my sister said was, "We ought to start a newspaper. You know? And just ASSUME things and write about it."It struck me as a very good analysis of even some supposedly big city and mainstream journalism we see. "Let's just assume stuff."It's funny, but it's all too true."Well, day before yesterday I saw Sam at the local feed store. Some of you may have been noticing that Sam hasn't been looking too well lately. His Aunt Josephine said he's having to go to the V.A. Hospital for something twice a week. Let's put him on our prayer lists...and somebody needs to find out how he's doing...and what he's got. Wonder if he's gonna die? Well let's hope not. Sam is a fine fella and we would really miss him.""Junior Jones tractor broke down last week and he won't be able to mow the Smith's pastures for at least three weeks. Whew! All I can say is does "West Nile Virus" ring a bell?""Why's Lucy Thompson been out of town so much lately?""I assume everyone is going to the picnic Saturday. If you don't, we'll write it up in the paper. We'll write it up if you do. We'll assume all sorts of things if we percieve anything wrong with the way you look if you do show up. Look chipper! We'll assume things anyway, though."
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Comment #7 posted by Hope on August 05, 2006 at 06:10:15 PT
Craiglist story at Raw News
Some good comments there...including a reference to MadKrow and CannabisNews.
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Comment #6 posted by mayan on August 05, 2006 at 05:56:49 PT
Pot Spot
Sorry if this has been posted...Craigslist becomes spot for pot peddlers:
http://rawstory.com/comments/17635.html
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Comment #5 posted by mayan on August 05, 2006 at 05:33:41 PT
Copyright: 2006 Hearst Communications Inc.
I never noticed that before. How ironic! William Randolph Hearst Sr. spread a great deal of "reefer/hemp madness" propaganda in his newspapers and magazines. Some interesting stuff on Hearst and others here...SHADOW OF THE SWASTIKA: The Real Reason the Government Won't Debate Medical Cannabis and Industrial Hemp Re-legalization:
http://www.hempfarm.org/Papers/Shadow_of_the_Swastika.htmlAnother piece on shrooms...God Is In The Magic Mushrooms - This just in: Psychedelic drugs could be very good for your mind, heart, soul. Can you believe?
http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/THE WAY OUT IS THE WAY IN...9/11 Symposium Most Popular C-Span Show:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/050806popular.htmDefeat Tyranny In America - by Pastor Michael Treis:
http://mujca.com/michaeltreis.htmGroup of 9/11 widows 'question the veracity of the entire Commission’s report': 
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Group_of_widows_claim_911_Independent_0804.htmlOpen Letter: 9/11 Widows Issue Statement Re. Pentagon Deception & 9/11 Commission:
http://www.911citizenswatch.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=913&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0Dayton Daily News Covers Recent 9/11 Poll (scroll down):
http://www.911blogger.com/2006/08/dayton-daily-news-covers-recent-911.htmlNORAD Tapes Expose Lax Military Attitude On 9/11 Air Defense:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/040806laxattitude.htm11 Questions Avoided by the Media On NORAD Tapes:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0608/S00053.htm
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Comment #4 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on August 05, 2006 at 03:08:38 PT
Prohibition cartoon
In which Lucky Cow asks the question: What if fast food were illegal?
Lucky Cow 8/5/06
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Comment #3 posted by The GCW on August 04, 2006 at 20:50:29 PT
Two
It's interesting how this is related... And informative...US CO: PUB LTE: Mind control and smoking cigarettesPubdate: Aug. 5, 2006Source: Summit Daily News (CO)http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20060804/LETTER/108040065---US CO: PUB LTE: Bible does not condemn cannibisReferenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n961/a04.html?241778Viewed at: http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20060804/LETTER/108040066
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Comment #2 posted by ekim on August 04, 2006 at 19:24:34 PT
"Raising the Bar: advancing justice and equality&q
Please remember that LEAP is waging a battle with the current legal system to allow the USA Farmers to grow Cannabis. The new Cellulose Ethanol products will be made using the most efficient plants on earth. Lets help LEAP with its mission to allow a regulated market for Cannabis here in the USA.Genencor Meets First Technical Milestone in Biomass to Ethanol Project
http://www.ethanol-gec.org/fall2001/fall15.html Genencor Labs, Palo Alto,
California Genencor International, Inc. announced that it has achieved its
first technical milestone in its three-year contract with the U.S.
Department of Energy Biofuels Program. Genencor developed and validated
processes for improved cellulase enzymes that meet the intended objective at
one-half the cost of currently available technologies.For Immediate Release August 4, 2006
Contact: info leap.cc (781) 393-6985
National Bar Association 81st Annual Conference & Exhibits Welcomes Law
Enforcement Professionals who say LEGALIZE DRUGS
The National Bar Association will open its 81st annual conference and
exhibit August 5th-12th. This year's theme of "Raising the Bar: advancing
justice and equality" could not be better suited to LEAP's ultimate goals of
ending the daily injustices and inequalities resulting from the "War on
Drugs." Members and guests will attend meetings, conferences, exhibits,
election forums, historic tours, luncheons and award banquets throughout
this week-long event. They will also have the opportunity to meet with
veteran drug policy reformers representing LEAP and learn about an
alternative to the drug war.
Founded in 2002 by current and former law enforcement members, LEAP now
enjoys the ever growing support of over 5000 members. The organization is
dedicated to educating the public about the failure of the existing drug
policies to achieve their intended goals of: addressing the problems of
crime, drug abuse, addiction, juvenile drug use, stopping the flow of
illegal drugs into this country and the internal sale and use of illegal
drugs. LEAP Speaker James Gierach is a practicing attorney who has
experienced the effects of the "War on Drugs" from both sides of the legal
system. After 35 years of courtroom and broad-based legal experience, Jim
has concluded, "Not only does prohibition not work but it is prohibition
(not drugs) that is at the hub of most U.S. crises worth talking about:
gangs, guns, crime, prisons, AIDS, health care, corruption, and eroding of
our civil liberties."
Date: August 5th-August 12th.Time: 8am-4pmLocation: Detroit Marriott at the Renaissance Center, Detroit, MI Please visit NBA website for more information about the agenda for the
eventAllison SilvaProgram AssociateLaw Enforcement Against Prohibition121 Mystic AvenueSuites 8 & 9Medford, MA 02155(781) 393-6985allison.silva leap.ccTo join us please go to http://leap.cc/members/index.htm
http://www.leap.cc/events
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on August 04, 2006 at 18:40:31 PT

Related Hemp Article
Mid-Daily Items: Where Did I Put Those Pretzels?*** By John Finnerty, The Daily Item August 04, 2006A funny thing happened this morning. Yesterday, I ate half a bag of peanut butter-filled pretzels I’d gotten at the Pennsylvania Preferred trade show held Thursday afternoon in Northumberland.Naturally, this morning, I thought I’d finish those pretzels. But I couldn’t remember where I’d put them. Which was, after all, only natural: the pretzels were Hempzels (pretzels made from hemp flour).I did find them eventually. They were one of the more interesting products on display at the show. The pretzels are the flagship product, but not the only one produced by Hempzels. They also make mustard and baklava, both using industrial hemp. They also sell toasted hemp seed.The products are made in Lancaster County, but they are made using hemp grown in Canada, because hemp farming is illegal in this country due to the product’s association with marijuana. But proponents like Hempzels proprietor Shawn House, maintain that industrial hemp is different from the cannabis plant used to smoke marijuana. At the trade show, he had a copy of a 1938 Popular Mechanics article touting the benefits of industrial hemp, as well as a copy of legislation that would legalize industrial hemp production.The Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2005, introduced in Congress last summer, would differentiate between cannabis and industrial hemp and allow states to decide if industrial hemp production should be allowed.But hemp farming would not exactly be a new thing if it were reinstated in Pennsylvania, Mr. House notes, displaying a photo, dated 1908, of a farmer harvesting hemp in Lancaster County.“Oh yeah, they didn’t teach us this in school,” he said.Complete Article: http://www.dailyitem.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060804/NEWS/60804004

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