Hemp: Part of the Green entrepeneurial revolution the U.S. needs.

[patrice]

http://www.votehemp.com/index.html

What is the counter to the anti-hemp argument that it would camoflage marijuana production? Marijuana isn't legal in Canada, but they grow hemp there; what do they do about this camoflage problem there?

[sutz12]

1. I thought that the economically viable strains weren't really the good smoke...

No? :shrug:

[patrice]

3. They definitely aren't the same THC content, or at least you'd have to smoke a ton of it

to get a buzz.

Assuming that marijuana remains illegal (for the time being), my question is: if you want to try to persuade people that industrial hemp should be legalized, and their argument against it is - industrial hemp may be just fine in and of itself, but it will provide cover for marijuana production since the two are visually indistinguishable, therefore industrial hemp should not be legalized - what is the counter to that argument?

[sutz12]

6. Well, there are more than one kind of alcohol available...

We seem to get by with a poison symbol and a warning label on them. Mary Jane doesn't seem so different to me, if they want to keep the smokable stuff illegal.

Hemp has a lot of commercially viable products made from it. It's a pity that the US is so short sighted on this one.

[Webster Green]

2. Legalize all forms of cannabis!

Problem solved.

[patrice]

4. There will still be states that prefer people to kill themselves and others

by drinking too much alcohol and it would be toooooo bad if they ALSO can't have hemp production.

[skids]

5. Answer: Pollen.

The last thing you want around your drug variety marijuana plant is hemp pollen. A fertilized female plant is worthless as a drug.

[jaysunb]

7. Bingo !

:thumbsup:

[patrice]

8. Oh! So, marijuana producers don't want their plants around hemp.

Ergo, the only thing preventing hemp production is that hemp is un-necessarily on Schedule 1.

So dumb! :crazy:

[skids]

9. Well that and...

...the fact that the DEA routinely violates the law and sends agents around on the government dime to state legislatures to lobby against any marijuana law reform. The farce that marijuana growers would use hemp fields to hide their grows is just one of the lies used by such agents.

[patrice]

10. Too bad we don't have time to Investigate that.

I'm wondering if Vote Hemp (linked above) is looking into it yet, probably depends upon how well their funding is developing.

I'll mention it to a cellulosic ethanol distillation start-up group I know.