Against Crony Capitalism – by Nick Sorrentino
Hemp for those who don’t know is the male of the cannabis plant. The female plant is what contains THC, the substance that gets one high. Hemp is just an amazing industrial product.
If one has ever had a shirt or a piece of rope made from hemp one is struck by its durability. Much more durable than cotton for instance. It is tough but also soft. It has a million uses, from paper to building material. However for years the drug war (not to say cotton producers and producers of chemical based products such as Nylon) have gotten in the way of the legal cultivation of this very useful plant.
Perhaps no longer.
There was a time when this country was filled with hemp fields. In fact at one point in early colonial America it was actually against the law NOT to grow hemp because it was so useful.
Republican Congressman Thomas Massie is a man on a mission, and that mission is to get farmers in his home state of Kentucky and across the nation growing hemp again. Massie is a staunch libertarian with a disdain for intrusive federal regulation, and his Industrial Hemp Farming Act would chip off a bit of federal power by allowing cultivation of industrial hemp in the United States.
While Massie himself is something of an outsider in the Republican Party, having voted twice against John Boehner for Speaker of the House, this particular cause is moving further into the mainstream. His new bill boasts 47 co-sponsors*, forming a surprising coalition of lawmakers from both parties and suggesting there could be a groundswell of support for allowing marijuana’s strait-laced cousin back into American fields.
Circa 1930’s. This cheap and durable hemp product is far superior to this cotton we got goin’ here. We must demonize the competitor. Hence, “Reefer Madness”. So they make a movie that impacts legislation to outlaw the “demon weed” and they’ed be “shittin’ in high cotton.”
“Much more durable than cotton for instance. It is tough but also soft. It has a million uses, from paper to building material.”
Which is exactly why it will remain illegal.
Far too many corporations stand to lose billions if hemp replaces their crappy synthetics.
I’m going to “smoke some diggerdan rope” and think about it!
😎 😆
Hey Paul, it’s my day off!
Hey brother…………enjoy. 🙂
Platinum Girl Scout Cookies & White Fire OG… 😯
“White fire”?
Wicked.
I just finished the last of that thrasherOG this morning.
LOL… you mean Shredders OG?
“from paper to building material” and FTTWR shirts!
Lets start a hemp farm.
As long as it’s not restricted to male plants only…
… wouldn’t want to be accused of prejudice or anything.
OK as long as we both agree NO hermaphrodites.
I hate when that happens to a crop.
Uh, oh… better check the ‘hate crime’ laws on that one.
Damn, you sound like my friend diggerdan talking about hermies Nottoobitter. He’d already have this year’s crop going good at this point. By the way, he knew how to change the hermies back to what we were looking for. The guy was good at what he loved.
For sure Millard. A B vitamin helps. I normally start germinating week 3 of feb. For the outdoor.
Digger would already have his “little darlings” sprouted and standing 2-3 inches at this point. I watched digger, with magnifying eyewear, surgically abort unwanted hermies back to the full blooded females they were meant to be. The guy was amazing.
lol
I call them my “little girls’ When they get bigger and start growing hairs I call them sluts. lol
It is important to spend at least a minuet a day touching them and hugs help too[girls]. Sometimes you got to play slap or shadow box em.