Hemp & DuPont

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The reason hemp was made " illegal " is to eliminate competition with DuPont

and other chemical companies in the making of artificial fabrics. They

used the marijuana connection, tenuous at best, as a smokescreen, and if

anyone here has seen REEFER MADNESS and other propaganda, they'll know how

badly the fascists lie.

 

Wild Oats markets sell all manner of hemp breads, waffles, and so on, and

in fact hemp shirts and other things are readily available too.

 

This is malfeasance. It is the deliberate misuse of a government agency,

in this case the DEA, to enforce a protectionist ban bought and paid for

by chemical companies in the 1930s and 1940s and used ever since as a

blunt instrument to hammer little folks so the big ones can get even

richer and more corrupt.

 

Write to your congress thing.

 

It won't do any good, as we long since ceased even the pretense of

democracy, but at least it'll make you feel you did what you could before

the knock comes through your door in the wee hours.

 

 

On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 03:27 AM,

wrote:

 

>

> Gordon is president of French Meadow Bakery in Minneapolis, which four

> years ago introduced " Healthy Hemp Sprouted Bread, " made with hempseed

> imported from Germany and Canada -- imported because hemp, a member of

> the cannabis family related to marijuana, is in some forms a controlled

> substance in the United States.

>

> Hempseed and hemp oil, also used in the making of food products,

> contain trace amounts of THC -- the " psychoactive " element that makes

> cousin marijuana an illegal drug.

>

> The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has been trying for more than a

> year to prohibit the use of hempseed and hemp oil in food products, and

> the agency recently published " final rules " addressing the legal status

> of products derived from the cannabis plant. The ban is to take effect

> Monday, but a hemp industry association has asked the Ninth U.S.

> Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to stay the order.

>

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