6 winners in the Drug War: ReasonTV

[BamaFanNKy]

YouTube - Judge Jim Gray on The Six Groups Who Benefit From Drug Prohi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6t1EM4Onao&feature=sub)

[jkr]

can we get that on during tha sUpa bowl?


that was nice

[BamaFanNKy]

Yes it was.

[Kotin]

great video.. we need more people like this who really know this issue and who can articulate it well, like this guy did..


very nice..

[Reason]

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=234943

[jkr]

he left out this:

Let American Farmers Grow Hemp

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Targeting: The President of the United States
Started by: Campaign for the Restoration and Regulation of Hemp

Hemp is the ultimate cash crop, producing more fiber, food and oil than any other plant on the planet.
According to the Notre Dame University publication, The Midlands Naturalist, from a 1975 article called, "Feral Hemp in Southern Illinois," about the wild hemp fields that annual efforts from law enforcement eradication teams cannot wipe out, an acre of hemp produces:

1. 8,000 pounds of hemp seed per acre.
When cold-pressed, the 8,000 pounds of hemp seed yield over 300 gallons of hemp seed oil and a byproduct of
6,000 pounds of high protein hemp flour.
These seed oils are both a food and a biodiesel fuel. Currently, the most productive seed oil crops are soybeans, sunflower seeds and rape seed or canola. Each of these three seed oil crops produce between 100 to 120 gallons of oil per acre. Hemp seed produces three times more oil per acre than the next most productive seed oil crops, or over 300 gallons per acre, with a byproduct of 3 tons of food per acre. Hemp seed oil is also far more nutritious and beneficial for our health than any other seed oil crop.

In addition to the food and oil produced, there are several other byproducts and benefits to the cultivation of hemp.

2. Six to ten tons per acre of hemp bast fiber. Bast fiber makes canvas, rope, lace, linen, and ultra-thin specialty papers like cigarette and bible papers.

3. Twenty-five tons of hemp hurd fiber. Hemp hurd fiber makes all grades of paper, composite building materials, animal bedding and a material for the absorption of liquids and oils.

4. The deep tap root draws up sub-soil nutrients and then, when the leaves fall from the plant to the ground, they return these nutrients to the top soil for the next crop rotation.

5. The residual flowers, after the seeds are extracted, produce valuable medicines.

Our farmers need this valuable crop to be returned as an option for commercial agriculture.

While marijuana is prohibited, industrial hemp will be economically prohibitive due to the artificial regulatory burdens imposed by the prohibition of marijuana. When marijuana and cannabis are legally regulated, industrial hemp will return to its rightful place in our agricultural economy.

Hemp may be the plant that started humans down the road toward civilization with the invention of agriculture itself. All archaeologists agree that cannabis was among the first crops purposely cultivated by human beings at least over 6,000 years ago, and perhaps more than 12,000 years ago.

Restoring industrial hemp to its rightful place in agriculture today will return much control to our farmers, and away from the multinational corporations that dominate our political process and destroy our environment. These capital-intensive, non-sustainable, and environmentally destructive industries have usurped our economic resources and clear-cut huge tracts of the world's forests, given us massive oil spills, wars, toxic waste, massive worldwide pollution, global warming and the destruction of entire ecosystems.

Prohibiting the cultivation of this ancient plant, the most productive source of fiber oil and protein on our planet, is evil. In its place we have industries that give us processes and products that have led to unprecedented ecological crisis and worldwide destruction of the biological heritage that we should bequeath to our children, grandchildren and future generations.


Restore Hemp!



AND

[jkr]

THIS:

Crop Rotation and Weed Control
Hemp, because of its height, dense foliage and its high planting density as a crop, is a very effective and long used method of killing tough weeds in farming (by minimizing the pool of weed seeds of the soil). Using hemp this way can help farmers avoid the use of herbicides, to help gain organic certification and to gain the benefits of crop rotation.

Water and soil purification
Hemp can be used as a "mop crop" to clear impurities out of wastewater, such as sewage effluent, excessive phosphorus from chicken litter, or other unwanted substances or chemicals. Eco-technologist Dr. Keith Bolton from Southern Cross University in Lismore, New South Wales, Australia, is a leading researcher in this area. Hemp is being used to clean contaminants at Chernobyl nuclear disaster site.

Fuels
Biofuels such as biodiesel and alcohol fuel can be made from the oils in hemp seeds and stalks, and the fermentation of the plant as a whole, respectively.Filtered hemp oil can be used directly to power diesels engines.

Hempseed Oil provides a single balanced source of EFA's
Hempseed oil contains 80% Essential Fatty Acids (EFA's). Omega-3 and omega-6 EFA compounds are required by the human body for maintenance and health of eyes, skin, nerves, as well as for overall cellular integrity.

Hempseed oil is of such high nutritional value because of its 3:1 ratio of omega-6 to omega-3 EFA's, which matches the balance required by the human body. Cold-pressed nutritional hempseed oil is legally imported into the US from Canadian producers. The oil has a fresh, clean taste, and is inexpensive compared to US alternatives. I take two tablespoons of hempseed oil every day myself, along with some salmon oil for its extra omega-3 compounds. EFA's are often overlooked, but without them we would have nerve damage, angry dry skin, and bad/no eyesight.

Hempseed protein - Complete amino profile
Hemp seeds also contain all of the essential amino acids which humans need for protein. Such a complete amino profile is extremely rare in a single food group. The seeds can be pressed and the flour and oil separated, then the high-protein flour can be used for baking. The seed flour and oil can be used together or separately to produce a variety of highly nutritious food products, including non-dairy "Hemp Milk" and frozen cream type products.

[emazur]

Nice - the most important thing he said (in terms of changing people's minds) is how the war on drugs benefits terrorists.

[BamaFanNKy]

The opposition to his comment:
YouTube - dave attell on pot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzVPMq-mCpo)

[BamaFanNKy]

My wife the drug counselor said, "Spot on."