Why Are So Many Still Against Hemp / Marijuana ?

[2ADMNLOVER]

It can help clean the environment , makes nutritious food for both people and livestock , it can be made into houses , oil and cars .

It ( Hemp ) seems like a " wonder plant " that folks are scared of because someone may get high from it's cousin .


Hey INGO farmers , watch the first 10 minutes and see if what he says holds true for Indiana .


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[PaulF]

I'm all for hemp. I have not problem with fully legalized marijuana, though, so hemp isn't really a big leap for me.

 

[2ADMNLOVER]

It just blows my mind that a friggin plant can do so many things we need / want , it is a renewable resource and can help the environment , so why is it illegal ?

It makes no logical sense to me unless money is changing hands to keep it illegal .

 

[MisterChester]

It just blows my mind that a friggin plant can do so many things we need / want , it is a renewable resource and can help the environment , so why is it illegal ?

It makes no logical sense to me unless money is changing hands to keep it illegal .

It's illegal because reasons.

 

[Twangbanger]

Since you brought up Marijuana, maybe it's because they think the unemployable stoners in society already have enough things going their way, without adding more people to the wagon?

(I'm in favor of people doing what they want with their bodies. You simply asked what others may be thinking).

 

[jamil]

The earth hasn't swallowed up Kentucky yet so I bet life may just continue on in other states that take that step.

 

[rambone]

The first question on my purity test would be to ask whether the respondent is OK with banning plants that grow wild out of the ground. Nothing screams "statist!" more than prohibiting weeds. Affirmative answers indicate that the person has no use for personal choice, property rights, free markets, small government, and a host of other things.

 

[ModernGunner]

I don't buy enough rope to vote in favor of it.

 

[scatwater]

If I remember correctly... Hemp was grown around northern Indiana around ww2. Ditch weed is still all around. The reason hemp got banned was money. You could make paper with hemp. So a big wig in the north west that owned a bunch of pulp mills threw his money at some senators and got hemp banned so his tree's would be the only resource for making paper.. But that came from a pot head at work...

 

[churchmouse]

If I remember correctly... Hemp was grown around northern Indiana around ww2. Ditch weed is still all around. The reason hemp got banned was money. You could make paper with hemp. So a big wig in the north west that owned a bunch of pulp mills threw his money at some senators and got hemp banned so his tree's would be the only resource for making paper.. But that came from a pot head at work...

Yup.....there used to be fields of it all around Lafayette.

 

[Expat]

The first question on my purity test would be to ask whether the respondent is OK with banning plants that grow wild out of the ground. Nothing screams "statist!" more than prohibiting weeds. Affirmative answers indicate that the person has no use for personal choice, property rights, free markets, small government, and a host of other things.

Being a gardener, I wish weeds could be banned.

 

[jamil]

The first question on my purity test would be to ask whether the respondent is OK with banning plants that grow wild out of the ground. Nothing screams "statist!" more than prohibiting weeds. Affirmative answers indicate that the person has no use for personal choice, property rights, free markets, small government, and a host of other things.

You're making it into a dichotomy when, to most people, it is an issue of it depends, and weighing this versus that, and deciding which underlying value is most important. But you're welcome to make the purity test as binary and as exclusive as you want. I'm not trying to pass.

 

[jamil]

If I remember correctly... Hemp was grown around northern Indiana around ww2. Ditch weed is still all around. The reason hemp got banned was money. You could make paper with hemp. So a big wig in the north west that owned a bunch of pulp mills threw his money at some senators and got hemp banned so his tree's would be the only resource for making paper.. But that came from a pot head at work...

I think maybe he was stoned. There are paper mills all over the country. There's one just down the road from where I lived in Mississippi.

 

[Leadeye]

Being a gardener, I wish weeds could be banned.

Must be part of the tiller/chemical industrial complex's doing.

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Must be part of the tiller/chemical industrial complex's doing.

Once Big Tiller gets their tines in an issue, they are going to get it turned how they like.

 

[Leadeye]

Once Big Tiller gets their tines in an issue, they are going to get it turned how they like.

 

[2ADMNLOVER]

Once Big Tiller gets their tines in an issue, they are going to get it turned how they like.

Yup , and getting it made legal so the little guy can make some money off is a tough row to hoe .

 

[Leo]

Regular people and old black musicians used weed more or less openly for years. Nobody really cared. Look up when the musical Reefer Madness was written, it is not like this was a recent event. When a bunch of rich spoiled college kids decided that staying high was more important than their studies, their rich and powerfull fathers blamed the weed, not their precious spoiled kids. Next thing we know, lots of law enforcement time gets wasted. Just as most people can use a glass of wine all their lives to aid digestion after dinner, and so many blue collar guys drink a couple of beers after work with no issues, I suggest that the majority who want to enjoy a couple tokes will be no problem. The few who cannot control themselves will surely be worthless stoners, much like the portion of the population who are worthless drunks.

It is not the pot, it is the person.

 

[wagyu52]

Watched the video till I couldn't take it any more, he doesn't quite have his AG facts stright. First off trying to compare gross income of various commodities is just looney, tabbacoo and potatoes are not even grown in the same climate at production levels and neither is grow in what is considered the "corn belt". Second, hemp would not be a replacement for corn/sorghum in a feed ration for cattle. Hemp is high in protein, corn is a carbohydrate, you kinda need both to make a balanced ration.

 

[mbills2223]

It just blows my mind that a friggin plant can do so many things we need / want , it is a renewable resource and can help the environment , so why is it illegal ?

It makes no logical sense to me unless money is changing hands to keep it illegal .

I'm not disagreeing with you, but the fact that it's a plant isn't reason enough to consider/make it safe/legal like many would suggest.