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Hemp could help save the World…

except for an irrational campaign which is dependant upon fraudulent claims about the degree of harm Pot does and about it leading to harder drugs.

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Here’s an alternative view firstly about Pot leading to other ‘drugs’. For most of us from about the age of 3 or 4 we have been to BBQs, we’ve watched the socializing and revelry which accompanied the older folk’s drinking. So from the start we have learnt to associate the consumption of alcohol (a drug) with having a ‘good time’, in fact, most of us may have been given a little sip of dad’s beer.

Now that last point is curious, because for most of us this was our first encounter or experience with the drug alcohol, that’s if you don’t count tobacco being smoked in the form of cigarettes by adults everywhere, yet we never here about alcohol or cigarettes leading to hard drugs, could that be because of political donations, and whatever happened to those tobacco company executives who stood up in a US senate inquiry and swore under oath that they had no knowledge of tobacco being harmful, did their political donations keep them out of jail as well?

The second point is the question of harm. Well the list of Pot’s alleged harmful effects is enormous… in the interest of saving the electric trees that would go into allowing me to post this article I won’t bother to list them. The story that accompanies those falsehoods goes something like this. A sweet young innocent girl was turned into a drug addict after one puff of a marijuana cigarette, forced into selling her body for another puff from a marijuana cigarette.

It’s a ridiculous assertion that seems to trump the undeniable statistics of tobacco, alcohol, prescription & over the counter drugs and there is always some doctor willing to jump on the band wagon, well I have two words to counter that, medical incompetence; which according to the ‘83 Australian Government Hospital Health Care Report, puts the death rate at over 10,000 a year; it’s now apparently almost doubled, yet not one confirmed death directly attributed to Pot, and we are talking about a plant that has be used for something like the last 8,000 years!

The truth of the matter is the ‘War on Drugs’ has done nothing but punish the financially disadvantaged and driven up the price of drugs… which in turn corrupts more police, lawyers and politicians. The war on Pot is even more pointless, in Hemp we have a plant that produces the best paper; so we don’t have to cut down trees for paper, Hemp is also a superior substitute for cotton that does not need the plethora of insecticides, herbicides and fertilizers that cotton needs.

The fact is Hemp grows really fast, which means that with the increase in bush fires, Hemp unlike plantation forests is cost effective, it’s a huge expense when a 20 or 30 year plantation burns down. Hemp also produces a highly nutritious seed which is packed with amino acids, but because it appeals to millions of people throughout the world who tend to be a minority in that they prefer to make up their own minds; this is of course the real crime, in an act of spiteful vested interest ‘they’ toss the baby out with the bath water… what a bunch of morons.

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