Hemp Costs

Recent votes on legalizing marijuana use for medical purposes set alarming precedents. This is only the tip of the iceberg.

What will happen if it becomes generally known that commercial use of the Hemp plant can adversely affect chemical companies, cotton farmers, and other industries such as the lumber and paper producers of this country.

Much time and money has been spent demonizing this plant and we should think carefully before opening the door even a little to changing the status quo.

According to the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, one acre of hemp can produce 4 times more paper than one acre of trees. And that is every year not every twenty. Do we really want to risk putting these loggers out of business?

Hemp produces twice as much fiber per acre as cotton. Cotton requires enormous pesticide use - 50% of all pesticides used in the U.S. are used on cotton. Substituting hemp for cotton would drastically reduce pesticide usage. This would hurt our chemical companies.

Hemp can also be substituted for cotton to make textiles. Hemp fiber is much stronger than cotton and can be used to make all types of clothing. While Cotton grows only in warm climates and requires enormous amounts of water. Hemp requires little water and grows in all 50 states. What about the poor cotton farmers?

Folks in the media should be careful or facts like these could reach the general public. The lumber companies and cotton producers spent a lot of good money back in the 1930’s on lobbying to have marijuana outlawed. They must watch what they print on this issue.

And what of the recent bill to spend more billions more on our governments continuing unsuccessful interdiction efforts. How can you consider putting these DEA folks out of work?

We must be careful. The 17% of the federal prisoners held due to strict Marijuana laws create jobs in our rapidly growing prison industry.

We can not permit thses truths to leak out...