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[questionmark]

Bloomberg said:

Kentucky Republicans and business leaders are promoting an unlikely way to boost the state’s economic development: Grow cannabis.

Kentucky leaders want their state to become the king of hemp, a plant that comes from the same species as marijuana, though doesn’t contain enough of the intoxicating ingredient to cause a high.

They want to help state farmers overcome the federal government’s treatment of hemp as an illegal drug, and produce it on an industrial scale, for use in items such as soap, horse bedding, building materials and auto body parts. Kentucky is one of at least five states, including Indiana and Vermont, where lawmakers have introduced measures allowing hemp farming.

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[Sweetpumper]

Nothing wrong with that.

[wolfknight]

I live in Kentucky I think it is a great idea. The soil is perfect for growing it. Grow the good stuff too

[questionmark]

wolfknight, on 31 January 2013 - 07:05 PM, said:

I live in Kentucky I think it is a great idea. The soil is perfect for growing it. Grow the good stuff too

Don't worry, once the other stuff is there in a large enough amount there will be some contraband in there. The main reason why hemp growing is either outlawed or very controlled in most states.

[freetoroam]

Great, that should slow down some of the gun toting criminals.





Am I asking to get shot by putting that?

Edited by freetoroam, 31 January 2013 - 07:24 PM.

[Michelle]

freetoroam, on 31 January 2013 - 07:24 PM, said:

Great, that should slow down some of the gun toting criminals.





Am I asking to get shot by putting that?

Nope, just proves you are a troll.

[OverSword]

questionmark, on 31 January 2013 - 07:10 PM, said:

Don't worry, once the other stuff is there in a large enough amount there will be some contraband in there. The main reason why hemp growing is either outlawed or very controlled in most states.

The main reason isn't because of the potential of sneaking in the good stuff.  The main reason is because most things formerly made from hemp are now made from nylon produced by Dupont, the evil corporation responsible for making hemp ilegal for that reason.

edit, as I understand it pot has been the #1 cash crop in TN for decades anyway.

Edited by OverSword, 31 January 2013 - 07:39 PM.

[Darkwind]

Good, it is stupid not to grow it. It is too useful to waste such  a renewable resource. As well as the stuff they said there is paper, cloth and oil.

[OverSword]

Darkwind, on 31 January 2013 - 07:44 PM, said:

Good, it is stupid not to grow it. It is too useful to waste such  a renewable resource. As well as the stuff they said there is paper, cloth and oil.

But what about refer madness?!?!?!?  Think of the kidz man!!!!

[aztek]

that is right, buy american.

[AsteroidX]

It is one of the most usable useful renewable resources we have.

[Yamato]

It's as Oversword said, the corporations came in with a profit to make and they lobbied against the Demon Weed that any American can grow outside in dirt to make sure it didn't have a chance in hell of being accepted again.   Now with the drug culture of pill poppers we've become, it's no wonder the flower is still illegal in the 21st century.  The toxic plastic conjured up in the laboratory is too important to sacrifice for a non-toxic product of nature that achieves far superior results.   Marijuana is good medicine for anybody, and you don't even need to be suffering from a health condition to benefit from it.

Kentucky aside, I want to give mega kudos to Colorado and Washington.  I'm still waiting for those mass crime wave in Washington and Colorado that "conservative" Bill O' Reilly has made tens of millions of dollars parroting about in his books and TV show.


"So many wars have been fought over the substance called cannabis or marijuana, billions and billions of dollars expended, millions of American citizens incarcerated and stripped of their liberty, too many lives destroyed. Few ask the pregnant questions: Where did marijuana come from? How long has it been around? When did marijuana become illegal? Why did the United States Federal Government criminalize it in 1937?"

After a two-hour committee hearing and a 92-second debate on the house floor, marijuana was de facto criminalized by Congress with passage of The Marihuana Tax Stamp Act of 1937, signed into law by President Roosevelt. A violation of the Tax Stamp Act was a felony with a maximum fine of $2,000 and/or 5 years in prison.

Like the Harrison Act passed twenty-three years earlier, the 1937 Act did not make possession or use of marihuana illegal (as this would run afoul of the Constitution's limitations on the power of the federal government), but instead required that the person possessing it have a "tax stamp." In a classic Catch-22 situation, it was a legal impossibility to obtain a marijuana tax stamp. In order to obtain a tax stamp, you had to have the marijuana in hand – which was a five year felony (this same tactic was used during Prohibition to ban machine guns). Not surprisingly, there was not a single recreational marihuana stamp tax ever issued.

http://brucealanbloc...a-became-legal/

[Simbi Laveau]

I thought the title said : Cannibals farming in Kentucky ...and I thought ,gosh,are they using body parts they don't eat to fertilize ...

[Yamato]

Simbi Laveau, on 31 January 2013 - 08:11 PM, said:

I thought the title said : Cannibals farming in Kentucky ...and I thought ,gosh,are they using body parts they don't eat to fertilize ...

It might as well be cannibals the way the govt wants you to think about that plant.

[Simbi Laveau]

Yamato, on 31 January 2013 - 08:14 PM, said:

It might as well be cannibals the way the govt wants you to think about that plant.

I'm the herbalist ,remember . I know all about the smear campaign from decades ago,that our govt still perpetuates .
They're such hypocrits .
Naahh ,I think looking at my small cellphone screen is making my eyes tired . Or I'm nuts .Take your pick .