[madeski]

The bill Oregon is trying to pass is WAY better, totaly unregulated for personal use, and tax on the sale of Marijuana. The way it should be. Way to go for Vermont legalizing hemp too. Now we just need to be able to grow seeded hemp (for the hempseed oil), and use it as a biofuel (the oil, and the biomass as ethanol approx 1300 gallons could be harvested per an acre). Hemp is the largest producer of bio fuel on the planet, it is over 4 times more efficient than corn, sugar beets, sunflowers, soy, etc. They estimate that if we grew hemp on 6% of the US that we could supply all of the power to the county, industrial, domestic, etc.. The US currently pays farmers to let 90 million acres of land stay fallow, 90 million acres is 6% of the US. Kind of funny, also we have 500 million acres of farm land that has been deemed less than worth to grow crops on, hemp would grow on much of this land. Using bio fuels would create a balanced CO2 level in our atmosphere, they take in as much CO2 while growing as they release when burned. Also, the best way to do it would be to have farmers growing hemp locally, you would purchase your fuel directly from the farmers, keeping the money in your local economy, instead of sending it over seas. This would stimulate the economy, create jobs, etc. in the process of saving the world. Why is our government against using the most usefull plant on the Earth, especially when our country was practically founded on growing hemp. G.W. (Washington not Bush), said "sow the indian hemp seed everywhere", T Jefferson, "Hemp is nessicary for the wealth and protection of our country". Henry Ford one of the top econimists ever, was all about growing hemp. He made a car that was 80% hemp, and ran on hemp, and he asked why we kept drilling for oil and cutting down old growth forests instead of annually growing a completely sustainable resource. End the lies, Educate, Inform, be a catalyst for change!!!!