Reply #44: Stop spreading the snide bullshit, [View All]

[MadHound]

Because it's obvious that you have no clue as to what you're talking about. Hemp and marijuana, while related, are not the same plant. You can literally smoke pounds of hemp and all you'll get is a large headache.

And since the two plants are related, they can cross pollinate. The quickest way to make a marijuana patch worthless is to plant hemp within a five mile radius. The two groups of plants cross pollinate, and the dope grower winds up with ditch weed, completely worthless.

This meme among the drug warriors that people want hemp legalized just to mask the growing of pot is as much propaganda as Reefer Madness was, and based in about the same amount of reality. Anybody with even a passing knowledge of growing dope knows that the worst thing to do is to plant it in or around a hemp crop.

Hemp however can help save the planet. It can replace wood as a source for paper, thus saving our forests. It can replace cotton in clothing, it is much more durable than cotton, and can be manufactured into a cloth that is as fine, if not finer, than cotton. The oil can be used for biodiesel, inks, dyes, plastics and many other uses, all of which would replace chemicals which are much harder on our enviroment. Also, hemp is much easier on the soil than cotton crops are. Cotton strips the soil of nutrients, nitrogen and other soil components, whereas hemp crops add to the soil.

This misguided bullshit bugaboo about hemp masking dope is a huge lie that is preventing the US from using this valuable crop as we once did. Stop repeating this lie to fool the gullible.