My latest Huffington Post rant calls out the drug czar's preposterous excuses for the ban on industrial hemp cultivation. Check it out.
My latest Huffington Post rant calls out the drug czar's preposterous excuses for the ban on industrial hemp cultivation. Check it out.
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Absolutely Insane
I read it too - absolutely ridiculous. It sounds like this guy actually believe that people are going to be getting high from industrial hemp. Has anyone EVER had any intoxicating effects from a fabric?
This is just one more example of how out of hand the drug war has gotten. Even more ridiculous is how arbitrarily it applies to some drugs and not others. People are killing themselves every day with pain pills as powerful as heroin, yet others are going to jail for years for smoking pot in their homes.
i think its quite amusing how
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