Pubdate: Fri, 30 Nov 2007
Source: Gazette, The (London, CN ON Edu)
Copyright: 2007 The Gazette
Contact:  http://www.gazette.uwo.ca
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2548
Author: Russell Barth
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n1350/a08.html?101377

GOVERNMENT AND BIG OIL STOPPING HEMP

Re: "Hemp helps with green movement" Nov. 21, 2007

To the editor:

"Since hemp can grow in virtually any climate including  northern and 
desert climates, it offers nutritional  support and protein for 
developing countries." This is  exactly why Hemp is illegal in the 
U.S., and suppressed  in most other countries.

Hemp can be used for food, and for the fuel used to  grow and 
transport food. In fact, the top of the plant  is used for food, and 
the stalks are used for fuel and  fibre, meaning there are actually 
two crops in one.

One acre of hemp can produce up to 1,000 gallons of  methanol in four 
months. In places with no winter, one  acre can produce up to 3,000 
gallons per acre each  year. Small methanol producing facilities 
could be set  up cheaply in every rural community on the 
planet,  making the need to ship oil across oceans obsolete.

If the masses were allowed to use hemp in this way, Big  Oil would 
not have a stranglehold on everything. In  fact, they would have no 
power at all. But with oil  barons in control of the price of fuel, 
they are literally in control of all prices. That 
artificially  increases poverty, widening the gap between rich 
and  poor, making it easier for the wealthy to subjugate the  poor.

It also increases violence and terrorism, which the  wealthy see as 
justification for more armies and police  and jails.

If everyone were allowed to just grow all the hemp they  wanted, 
there could actually be peace on earth, but  world leaders see no 
profit in that, so it looks like  we are stuck with oil.

- --Russell Barth

Federal Medical Marijuana License Holder

Patients Against Ignorance and Discrimination on  Cannabis (PAIDOC)
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