The North Dakota state legislator, school superintendent and farmer, David Monson, has been pushing to become the United States first industrial hemp farmer since marijuana prohibition became the law in 1970 with the creation of the Controlled Substances Act.
I fully support his actions. I personally prefer to buy materials made from hemp. They are durable, remarkably soft, and resist water damage exceptionally well. Whatever happened to laws requiring farmers to grow a yearly crop of this excellent fiber?
The United States as a country has criminalized a benign substance, one without psychoactive properties. Cannabis, as grown for THC and other psychoactive content, is scientifically understood to be a benign substance itself. Although it is understood that inhalation of carbon particles and other gases created via combustion is toxic and detrimental to human health, we’ve effectively cut off avenues of scientific study via extractions and pharmaceutical distribution.
Welcome to the United States of Fascism. We’re a prison state with more persons incarcerated per capita than any other country in the world. As of 2006, that’s 2.2 million of our population in the prison system. Have you ever heard of China? They’ve only got 1.5 million. The next closest behind them is Russia with 870,000.
One out of every 32 adults in the United States is in prison, primarily for marijuana related offenses. This is not democracy; this is fascism.
