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Farmers Ask Federal Court To Dissociate Hemp and Pot

 

By Peter Slevin

 

Wayne Hauge grows grains, chickpeas and some lentils on 2,000 acres in northern

North Dakota. Business is up and down, as the farming trade tends to be, and he

is always on the lookout for a new crop. He tried sunflowers and safflowers and

black beans. Now he has set his sights on hemp.

 

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About TIME! The USA's founding fathers thought every farmer

ought to be required to plant some hemp.

 

Hemp is the ultimate bio-fuel, can be made into paper, into

comfortable fabric, the seeds are a nutritious source of

protein and essential fatty acids, and so on and so on.

 

Banning its cultivation is totally insane.

 

Ien in the Kootenays

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[Dave]: Interesting. I'd like to see American farmers able to grow hemp.

It is probably one of the ten most useful plants in history. Marijuana is

one of the many cultivars of hemp, and it gets all the press. Some hemp is

grown for fiber, oil or seed; some is grown for recreational and/or

medicinal uses.

 

The illegality of marijuana is one of the main reasons that the so-called

War On Drugs has no credibility. The fact is that as a drug, it is hundreds

of times safer than alcohol. The excuse that it is a gateway drug, leading

to harder drugs, has as much credence as the argument that beer is a gateway

to alcoholism.

 

In the early days of this country it was actually illegal for farmers not to

devote a certain amount of their acreage to hemp. Marijuana was introduced

to Harlem in the 1920s by a white man named Milton Mesirow, better known as

" Mezz " Mezzrow. He was a fascinating character. He called himself a

voluntary negro, married a black woman, and actually came to believe that he

was black. He was never a great musician himself, but associated with all

the greats of the Harlem Jazz scene. He made trips to Mexico in an old

truck and came back with loads of pot - totally legal at the time. He died

in 1972.

 

Marijuana was made illegal in 1937 after a great deal of back-room pressure

from DuPont, which had invented a material called nylon. Trouble was, every

market niche they aimed for was already filled by hemp. This is a

fascinating story of politicking at its dirtiest.

 

 

 

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Farmers Ask Federal Court To Dissociate Hemp and Pot

 

By Peter Slevin

 

Wayne Hauge grows grains, chickpeas and some lentils on 2,000 acres in

northern North Dakota. Business is up and down, as the farming trade

tends to be, and he is always on the lookout for a new crop. He tried

sunflowers and safflowers and black beans. Now he has set his sights on

hemp.

 

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