The height of the marijuana as evil climbs to such absurd heights in Idaho that even growing industrial hemp is not allowed. Though lacking in any power to produce a harmless high, it is still branded as evil. Tom Trail has tried for years to educate his colleagues about this without much success.<br>
<br>We have the right conditions in parts of Idaho to grow this crop, and to make products from it. Because it shares a genus with that evil drug, the asinine have sacrificed the commerce it could produce. <br><br>As you are aware two large and well financed lobbies are against marijuana: the pharmaceutical industry and the hospitality industry. Cheap marijuana could replace many applications of expensive narcotics with many adverse physical and social consequences. Cheap and safer marijuana highs could cut alcohol consumption and many of the advrse consequences of immoderate alcohol use.<br>
<br>w.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Robert Dickow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dickow@turbonet.com">dickow@turbonet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Author Michael Pollan wrote a really interesting article in the center<br>
spread of Atlantic Monthly about 12 years ago. It was about growing those<br>
gorgeous P. somniferum poppies in your garden, and how the government can,<br>
if you grow these, legally confiscate your house with no due process<br>
whatsoever. In the article, Pollan points out that the government actually<br>
does NOT WISH TO LEGALIZE some of these inane drugs for certain peculiar and<br>
special reasons, one so that they can take your house away if they really<br>
need to do so. Specifically, the article covered Papaver somniferum, which I<br>
used to grow extensively... the big puffy pink one. Turns out that it is<br>
more or less tolerated by authorities until you start doing stuff they don't<br>
like (like protesting Megaloads or things like that), or if you actually<br>
know what it is that is growing in your garden. No kidding. The garden<br>
cultivars have essentially no active chemicals whatsoever to speak of, but<br>
you can get busted anyway.... just because you can't stop the gov from doing<br>
so. Catch 22 for real. P. somniferum is not to be confused with the large<br>
perennial Papaver orientalis that most people have around town in abundance.<br>
(Aside for avid gardeners: I used to get a seed catalog from Britain that<br>
sold Papaver somniferum under the name of P. paeonioflorum (actually a<br>
subvariety of P. somniferum anyway). They finally got the elbow nudge from<br>
the U.S. authorities so now you can't buy them any more. They had some great<br>
color varieties too! Darn. European society isn't as stupid and repressive<br>
as in the U.S. so you can grow all kinds of things over there. By the way,<br>
morning glory vine seeds produce a powerful LSD-like high (and nausea), but<br>
how come they are 100% legal to grow? My favorite variety.... "Pearly Gates"<br>
(for the flowers only).)<br>
<br>
Bob Dickow, troublemaker<br>
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Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 3:11 PM<br>
To: Tom Hansen; keely emerinemix<br>
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Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Narcotics = Good, Marijuana = Evil?<br>
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I agree, it makes no sense not to. I think that this is one reason Ron Paul<br>
has so much support.<br>
Roger<br>
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From: Tom Hansen <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><br>
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 19:36:50 -0700<br>
To: keely emerinemix <a href="mailto:kjajmix1@msn.com">kjajmix1@msn.com</a><br>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Narcotics = Good, Marijuana = Evil?<br>
<br>
> Do you realize that 60% of the Mexican drug cartel's bottom line comes<br>
from the sale of marijuana in the U.S.?<br>
><br>
> Do you really want to put a major hurt on the Mexican drug cartel while,<br>
at the same time, converting a stateside money-coster into money-maker,<br>
simple:<br>
><br>
> MARIJUANA . . .<br>
><br>
> LEGALIZE IT ! . . . . . . . . . . REGULATE IT ! . . . . . . . . . . TAX IT<br>
!<br>
><br>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.<br>
><br>
> Tom Hansen<br>
> Moscow, Idaho<br>
><br>
> "If not us, who?<br>
> If not now, when?"<br>
><br>
> - Unknown<br>
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