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Hemp is a Distracting, Silly Issue in a Field That Needs Answers
- From Dr Kevin Sabet
By Dr. Kevin Sabet - Special Advisor for Policy, ONDCP
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Dr. Sabet, in today's age, do you think it's worth considering all possible fuel alternatives? Hemp has some indisputable positive practical applications. While it's really not the issue we are discussing in this debate, downplaying it's industrial use as nothing more than smoke and mirrors may be a bit naive...
- Asemili
August 8, 2008 7:51AM
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Ohhhh, PLEASE!!!
Doctor, please answer the following: Where did you get the stat, "only 800-2300 marijuana users are imprisoned? The 700,000 arrestees doesn't represent those arrested by LE, but rather those arrests that LE reported? What's the difference? Prohibition was really decriminalization. Are you serious? I think you meant it was CRIMINALIZATION!
There is overwhelming evidence to support continued criminalization of marijuana. Where? Ending prohibition in no way guarantees the elimination of the black market. Well, prohibition DEFINITELY GUARANTEES a continuation of the black market. What say you? Hemp distracts the REAL issues. So does hyperbole, lies, and propaganda. What say you?
Another unfortunate example of a degreed individual with an inability to think or reason. SHOW US SOME PROOF, or UNBIASED studies. You should be embarassed, doctor, really.
- PSYOP
August 8, 2008 1:39PM
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your right
your right it should be moved to the environmental issues because the industries hemp would re-place are also the biggest causes of pollution deforestation and erosion.
- ignint
October 1, 2008 8:54AM
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A Silly issue?
Wow! The MOST beneficial plant in human history, useful in more ways than one. You don't think that Hearst, DuPont, Mellon, and Carnegie had any interest in keeping industrial hemp out of the picture? Please!
That is ridiculous. Money talks, money buys votes and politicians, money will help induct legislation that will eliminate competitors i.e. DuPont with his nylon and sulfide paper pulping process. All so we can rape the earth of its oil and trees for the love of money. The Decoricator was poised to revolutionize the hemp industry and make it as lucrative as the budding plastics industry. Something which big investors could not let happen and so began the demonization of Cannabis and the introduction of the false term 'marihuana'.
Which makes for sense in a sustainable manner?
1.) Destroying a acre of forest for paper pulp that uses sulfides and takes 10-20 years to regrow.
or
2.) Growing a acre of hemp that produces 4 times the pulp in one season, and is ready for the next years cycle.
There is a very good reason why paper was originally made from hemp. It is stronger, longer lasting, and requires no sulfides.
Plastics can also be made from it that would actually biodegrade. Why make biofuels from a food source like corn when producing it from hemp would also allow other products to be manufactured.
Dr. Sabet I find your arguments shallow, and still touting the exact same lines that have come before. You would think that after a 71 year WAR that we might get the hint that it will never go away, and it would be best to just embrace it, regulate it, and tax it to reap the revenue from it and also open up more industries in the United States of America!!
- tRANIS
March 8, 2009 8:45AM
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One big strawman
I'm curious why Sabet attacks the argument of someone completely different, instead of the one he is supposed to--and fails to actually give a reason why hemp shouldn't be legal .
- Blue Linchpin
May 2, 2009 12:24AM
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Dr. Sabet, are you out of your mind?!
Dr. Sabet wrote;
"Hemp is a distracting issue which really has little to do with modern drug control policy...".
The reasons industrial hemp is not allowed to be grown in the US is precisely BECAUSE of modern drug control policy. Of course, it was a perfectly good crop to grow before cannabis prohibition, and then again during WWll. Industrial hemp would be a very useful crop today -- if it weren't for the ridiculous ongoing prohibition of psychoactive cannabis.
As mentioned in another post -- Dr. Sabet, you really should be embarrassed!
- blendin
June 17, 2009 12:30PM
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