On 2002-05-29 10:25:00, kaydeejaded wrote:
I really think it is just ignorance when it comes to the hemp issue. They probably do think it is big bushy dank bud filled plants with a little hemp to use for rope. I wish!!!! Shit I am moving to a hemp farm tomorrow if that is the case. People are ignorant. I think that it used to be illegal to NOT grow hemp. Is that true or did I make it up? :grin:
The argument is that, if farmers are allowed to grow waving fields of hemp, cops are too stupid to tell those (6' tall, stalky, dense plantings) plantings from the (2' - 4' high, bushy, couple of feet per plant) botanical varieties. Now, right away, botanica variety affecianados and experienced growers pointed out that it wouldn't matter anyway. Due to cross-pollination, by the end of the growing season the growers would be hard-pressed to tell the difference between their botanical crops and rope anyway. But, in the age of sound bytes, it hasn't phased them a bit. They're also ignoring the cops on the street, who more and more think it's plain stupid to go around chasing pot smokers when there are unsolved murders to work on and child molesters on the loose.
I do believe the war's almost over.
Re: the constitutionality of the Barr Amendment, I know it's not constitutional. And I know that's been argued on the floor of Congress, maybe in court. It has been overturned, but I'm not sure if it just died of old age (sunset provision) or if it was officially squashed by the judiciary. Details, details! Wouldn't matter to Barr anyway, he's still at it.
Re: the federal money, it was a federal election and it costs some (small) amount of money to count and then to certify any vote, never mind printing the ballots and qualifying inits and candidates to begin with. This was also, very obviously, a fallacious use of technical rules.
But we're beginning to see some responsible, even heroic support from the media. And I think that might be all the white hats in every government agency and branch--from the judiciary to the cop on the beat... eaven DEA and FBI--are waiting for. Lets do all we CAN to give them the support they need to purge the system of the wackos who still support this insane war.