Today on CNN
They discussed "POT".
I said this a while ago!

They removed my response to a query from Uncle Dave!

"3refs, you made one comment which I don't understand. It goes like this:
Or the oil companies (who started the whole thing to crush the hemp industry).
Based on what facts? And why would the oil companies want to crush the hemp industry.
I'm not attacking you. I just don't understand the reference, and hope you will explain what it's about."
Dave Oesterreich

This is what I think I said(and more)!

Perhaps I was a little over zealous in my attack of the oil companies! In reality, is was more likely Prohibition and the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. Although the prohibitionists(of both) were probably backed by the oil companies(I paint oil companies and Toronto with the same brush)!
It must be noted, that 1 acre of hemp will produce 1000 gals of methanol in about 4 months. Hemp oil is considered the brightest oil for lighting. So why not eliminate the competition?
1 acre of hemp will also produce as much pulp fiber & cellulose as 4.1 acres of trees, so the huge lumber companies must have had their lobbyists too.
It can be used for anything that cotton is used for and lasts 10 times longer. You can eat it, heat with it, make your cloths out of it and build your house out of it!
The hemp plant uses the sun more efficiently than virtually any other plant on our planet. It can grow in almost any climate or soil condition.
In the U.S.A. alone, there was between 4000 and 6000 hemp plantations in the mid-1800's(mostly for rope and bags ). The Slaves who worked on hemp plantations were payed and could buy their freedom(but stayed anyways).
In all likelihood, it was the first plant modern man domesticated. Reference to hemp by the Chinese goes back 6000 years, and was one of the first "things" to be identified with a written symbol, it looks like a little house with squiggly lines under it! The Chinese had hybridized hemp to the point where the seeds were as big as peas. Ancient text from China recommends hemp for just about everything, from increasing a mother's milk to urinary problems!

And doesn't it say somewhere in some book "Ye shall make use of the HEMP"
I really could go on and on about the benefits of hemp, marijuana, grass, ma, ganja, dope or whatever else you want to call it. I won't give you anymore ammunition with regards to my sanity, so, I'll end with this! In all honesty, I believe in a short period of time, if we could convince the opponents to dig their heads out of their asses, we could turn this financial crises we are having around just by growing "DOPE". After you have picked yourself up off the floor and have stopped laughing, just for one minute, think of the possibilities. I've already told you a minuscule amount of it's vast uses. It would be so easy to develop an(another)industry for hemp! The use and need for petroleum based products would become virtually non-existent! The need for synthetic materials would become "a need" instead of a desire! Starvation could become a thing of the past! The devastation that the stripping of our forests has caused could quite possibly become something our great grand children could only see in old movies and pictures because of responsible tree farming.

Think of four things that are REALLY more important to our existence on this planet! Yes we need leaders, government, laws, science, health care professionals, technologists of all kinds and way down the list to the lonely labourer. Think of the "BILLIONS OF DOLLARS" alone that will be savedTY by eliminating prosecution! No more executions....What a by-product!
It's much easier to control something than it is to ban it!!!

TY.....TYVM