Hemp Is Not Pot

[forrest]

It's the Economic Stimulus and Green Jobs Solution We Need!

We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it still illegal?

While Uncle Sam's scramble for new revenue sources has recently kicked up the marijuana debate -- to legalize and tax, or not? -- hemp's feasibility as a stimulus plan has received less airtime.

But with a North American market that exceeds $300 million in annual retail sales and continued rising demand, industrial hemp could generate thousands of sustainable new jobs, helping America to get back on track.

"We're in the midst of a dark economic transition, but I believe hemp is an important facet and has tremendous economic potential," says Patrick Goggin, a board member on the California Council for Vote Hemp, the nation's leading industrial hemp-farming advocacy group. "Economically and environmentally, industrial hemp is an important part of the sustainability pie."
Hemp Is Not Pot: It's the Economic Stimulus and Green Jobs Solution We Need (http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_17412.cfm)

[Gary Blanchard]

Sadly, even the Hemp Speak forum here perpetuates the idea that hemp and pot are the same thing. I agree that hemp is important and we must all make the effort to acknowledge the difference between the two.

[unclejoe]

unfortunately, Gary, the government considers them to be the same.

[Gary Blanchard]

unfortunately, Gary, the government considers them to be the same.

Yes, I know. My point is that we folks who would like to see hemp legal need to focus on the difference rather than perpetuate the myth that they are the same.

[Gaston]

Stay the course, O Ye of Little Faith! Why settle for hemp when we're perched on the brink of getting both?

There's a "Shit My Dad Says" blog out there somewhere that has a pertinent story (it's somewhat sexist, but the roles are reversible):

Dad - "Why don't you ask that girl out, she's smart and gorgeous, too"

Son - "I'm just not in her league, Dad"

Dad - "Dammit boy, don't get in the business of telling women who they won't date. It's tough enough when they decide without our help."

:D