This is NOT in support for drug use, it is for economic prosperity.

  Hemp is a great fuel and protein source and has many, many uses. It was once the most cultivated crop in America. It will also grow very well on poor soils so no fertilizers are needed.

  Who profits from it being banned? Oil, energy, pharmaceuticals, plastics, paper, Agribusiness, and those that profit from the "Legal Enforcement Industrial Complex" Companies. Keeping hemp illegal generates BILLIONS of dollars in revenue that ultimately comes from YOUR pocket to make a very small few at the top of the food chain very, Very, VERY rich.

Stan

http://tbknews.blogspot.com/2008/04/hemp-for-food-and-fuel.html

Good hemp video's on this site.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Earth Day 2008: Hemp for Food and Fuel! On this weekend before Earth Day, with celebrations worldwide, we find ourselves gripped globally by a food shortage caused in large part by rising fuel costs. Adding to this problem is the increasingly serious population growth. Indeed, I am reminded during this crisis of two pertinent subjects: Firstly, Paul Ehrlich, who wrote The Population Bomb in 1968, but who was roundly assailed and dismissed at the time. Unfortunately, he is being proved correct, as common sense would have told us all along. The second subject that keeps popping up provides a major solution to the world's food and energy crises. It's been sitting there all along, vilified and suppressed by the ruling elite, who appear to care not a fig for the world's poor and suffering but who only seem to want to make their fortunes off polluting and destroying the earth. What I'm talking about is the prohibition of one of the world's most versatile plants: Hemp or cannabis.

The history of hemp is long and varied, and need not be reproduced here but can be viewed in part in the videos included here. Suffice it to say that, rather than for "moral" purposes having to do with the medicinal or recreational uses of one strain of cannabis, the prohibition of hemp has largely revolved around the desire by the ruling elite to horde and profit off of the resources they have virtually monopolized since the 1930s and earlier. Indeed, in my mind one of the greatest criminals in history is William Randolph Hearst, who, along with his "hired Anslinger," so to speak, almost singlehandedly managed to destroy the American hemp industry. Now, much of the environmental destruction can be placed squarely on the heads of this tiny minority of monopolizers. With hemp, there would have been little need for the oil industry and its attendant globe-destroying pollution and degradation. Another benefit of hemp production and the non-necessity of Middle Eastern oil would have been the lack of funding for "radical" Islamic extremists whose stated goal is total global domination, using billions of petrodollars currently at their disposal.

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Stan Norred
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