Why Hemp had been declared poisonous/illegal?
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cotton industry and dupont
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The reason it was made illegal in the first place was because the oil from the seeds can be used to fuel an engine, and so the oil lobby, along with the media who were making profits from cutting down trees, found a way to make it illegal. The law was passed as a part of the tax law, which introduced the name marijuana, so that nobody would realise that they were restricting the use of hemp.
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Some areas (Like those where hemp was once grown to support war efforts in WWII) have had difficulty eradicating the crop from the wild despite spraying. Many times the fields have to be burned. In some places in Arkansas. Mississippi, and some tropical areas where it once and still does grow wild they have to raise the level allowed for employment because of the possibility of "environmental exposure". Now typically a state can set the limit of a drug LOWER than the limits allowed federally, but not HIGHER, unless there is just cause and the federal statute has exceptions. \nWith newer pesticides and herbicides many of these states "exceptions" are disappearing.
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Well, when the government wanted to make it illegal, they had to classify it as a drug. Since the government defines it as a drug and deems it illegal, If we are going by the government's definition of a drug, we HAVE to say yes it is a drug.\n\nHowever, aside from the government definition and classification, lets look at marijuana in it's pure form.As a harvested crop of foliage ( herb, weed, plant whatever u call it). When my daughter has a cold, she has osha root, when she has the flu or upset stomach, slippery elm and chamomile sometimes mint or ginger. You can blend these with foods, make them as teas, use tinctures of them (a concentrated dose), even use the herbs and leaves in an herbal bath soak. Herbal medicine has been around longer than any other kind. Even when you go to a spa and get an herb wrap, you are being swathed in a steaming herbal blend meant to detoxify and nourish....this is also a form of herbal medicine. In these cases marijuana could easily be used as well or instead of the above, because of it's many uses outside the favored smoking. Marijuana is known to sooth upset stomach, menstrual cramps and lots of other pains. It is used in Holland in small children with asthma, because it dilates your lungs, and they think the steroid inhaler ( not the emergency inhaler) is too strong for kids. As far as in a spa, I am sure the relaxing effects of a marijuana wrap would be highly revered. I guess herbs like these could be drugs depending on how they are used, but they arent called drugs when purchashing them at a natural food store or herb shop.So I think it would be safe to say that if it were not made illegal and defined as a drug by the government, it would never have been considered a drug in the first place. Valerian root calms and relaxes, and maybe someday the government will classify it as a drug and make it illegal too. \nI have a favorite Bible verse that comes in handy times like these. Some people take the Bible more serious than science....\n" On the sixth day...God said...' Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing herb which is on the face of all the earth.' Then God saw everything that was made and behold, It was very good."\n\n      Genesis 1:29-31
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It was written on hemp.
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I believe you are asking the difference between industrial hemp and marijuana. Let's see if I can give you the best answer. \n\nMarijuana is cannabis plant with a high amount of the drug THC. THC is a pain reliever that makes you feel high. It was first banned in 1937 and given its pet name marijuana by government officials. Doctors refused to recognize the ban until the government threatened to arrest doctors a year or so later. Any possession of this plant is illegal in the US.\n\nIndustrial Hemp is a cannabis plant that has so little THC that you can only use it for industrial uses. Usually less than .3% THC in most countries.\n\nAn acre of Industrial Hemp can replace 3 or 4 acres of wood used for paper and the process is less expensive. It grows faster than most other plants, and crowds out plants so effectively that it doesn't require herbicide. Hemp is very inexpensive to grow compared to many other crops. Just talking about seed, some types of hemp grow as much hemp seed as corn. When talking about stalks and seed, hemp grows 10 tons compared to the 5 to 7 tons of corn at their best.   \n\nIt is frequently used for cloth, food, rope, alternative oil source and has 400 million in sales per year in the US(12 million in food product last year). \n\nThis plant is legal to possess, eat, wear, just not grow. Viable seed and growing plants are illegal. Courts cases have recognized all other uses are legal by our laws in the US. The DEA has managed to keep growing Industrial Hemp illegal due to how much it looks like marijuana claiming that it would make drug enforcement impossible. A claim that no other law enforcement in the world has made.  \n\nCanada requires that you have a license, detailed maps, and field inspections, but is otherwise legal for any purpose. There are thousands of acres of hemp grown in Canada currently.
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Actually the main lobbiers against legal marijuana are the people in the lumber industry. Surprised ? I know I was. It seems that hemp can be used to make most of things they use wood for. It also replenishes the soil and grows faster.
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The reason why hemp is illegal is not because of any residual psychedelic properties it might have (even the government recognizes you would get sick before you had smoked enough hemp to get high), but because if it were legal it would make the ban on marijuana completely unenforceable.\n\nThe leaves of both the marijuana and the hemp plants are completely indistinguishable by any means other than testing in a laboratory. They cannot be told apart by any visual or sensory means (smell, taste, etc). As such, if a person were carrying what looked like marijana leaves dried and crushed up for smoking, a police officer would have NO ability to express reasonable suspicion or probable cause that the leaves were not from a hemp plant, and could not then have the authority to seize and test any such product. The fact that hemp leaves dried and crushed for smoking would be useless would not matter to a judge.\n\nI fully believe that marijuana, like dental cocaine, has some legitimate medicinal value, and that hemp can produce some economic gain for small farmers and businessmen. I am not saying your petition is without merit. However, I think it is important that you realize why the government is so adamant about maintaining the ban on marijuana and hemp together, and that a lot of people who have employment that requires trust between themselves and the government (ie- having some sort of license or permit from a state or federal government entity) will not be in a position to sign such a petition.
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Pot is not a narcotic. \n\nCannabis (marijuana) or hemp has been known as a medicinal and psychoactive compound from very early in history, and has been used continuously throughout the world, typically without stigma until the early 20th century, when prohibition became increasingly global.\nIt is generally considered to be impossible to achieve a lethal overdose by smoking cannabis. According to the Merck Index, 12th edition, the LD50, the lethal dose for 50% of tested rats, is 42 milligrams per kilogram of body weight. That is equivalent of a 75 kg (≈165 lb) man ingesting all of the THC in 21 one-gram cigarettes of maximum-potency (15% THC) cannabis buds, assuming no THC was lost through burning or exhalation. For oral consumption, the LD50 for rats is 1270 mg/kg and 730 mg/kg for males and females, respectively, equivalent to the THC in about a pound of 15% THC cannabis. Only with intravenous administration — an unheard of method of use — may such a level be even theoretically possible.\n\nIn summary, it is probably not lethal, and in moderation less harmful than repeated alcohol use.
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Herb is illegal because of its ability to "gateway" individuals onto other stronger addictions. No matter what anyone tells your "herb" is a drug and is addicting, it puts pressure on the backs of the eyes, giving the impression of (stoned) (or chinked eyed) and speeds the bodies endomorphins up, (the bodies natural defense for pain) chemical alcohol is legal only because they can tax it and herb they cannot, in your defense, it should be legal, but they cant tax it and its america... so ......
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Hemp and Maryjuana just don't sit well with Americans. First the devil was alcohol then when that was a mess the tide turned sour for Thc.\nDuring WW2 the state then made it legal again so they could make parachutes or lose the war, there are many documentaries available on the net that explain the whole story.\nBut if Maryjuana is illegal it makes sense to make Hemp illegal or people would mix it up in the fields and the feds wouldn't be able to tell the difference.
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I bet there's nothing illegal about it. They say it's "herb" that you can smoke, they never say specifically what kind of "herb".
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the only thing that will kill you is the fact that you are ingesting an illegal substance...drugs are not illegal because someone decided to make them that way for the hell of it...they are illegal because they are dangerous and have adverse effects on your health
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pot was made illegal when lsd and all the hard druggs of the 60's were i think. instead of actually knowing what pot was or how it was different then acid and x and cocaine, and the other hard drugs, it was illegialized right along with it. so really for no good reason is it illegal.. yes it should be legalized.. we wouldnt spend so much money on the fight against drugs, and would be able to focus on the important things like coke, and crack, and heron, exc... the things that actually kill ppl
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this is a long answer. it started out as a way to demonize the chicanos/mexicans in the 1920s. then hemp became a threat to the cotton, paper, lamp oil & textile industries which led to the legislature of 1937 that outlawed hemp & cannabis. the rage of anti pot propaganda hit in the late 30s, 'refer madness' being the most seen. as an illegal, the revenues are monumental on both sides. heres where i come in. the pot trade supplies jobs for growers, transporters, smugglers, distributers, wholesalers & retailers. but on the other side; the lawers, courts, rehab relateds, confiscators (police auctions) & prisons also get paid. 'but man, it costs $50k to house each inmate per year'. WRONG. gist was an agriculture unit, we grew peas, cabbage, okra, onions & grain. the unit accross the way was a packaging unit. theres textile units that make the clothes & bedding out of the cotton other units grow. theres steel fabrication units, livestock units, manufacuring units, ect. we produce everything we use. we also produce free world goods that are sold as generic brands. we are an onsite free labor self preservation society. the economic structure that pot supplies is phenomenal. this is why the propaganda is inflicted. look how well propaganda & spin works; iraqs WMDs, the mexicans, terrorism, religions,...damn. the earth was said to be flat & the stars revolved around the earth. we still fall for the most ridiculous lies after all these millenia. those who can be made to believe absurdities can be made to committ attrocoties.
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Busted! criminal sale of a controlled substance in the third degree. And it's a class b felony.\n\nBut then you knew it was illegal.*LOL*
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Most definitely.\n\nI don't use it as a drug and wouldn't, if it were legalized, but it would open the doors to a lot of opportunities.\n\nOne of the reasons hemp isn't allowed as a crop in the USA is because, obviously, it's a product of the canibus (marijuana) plant.  Hemp has so many positive aspects about it, from clothing, paper, and rope manufacturing, to a possible product for formenting ethanol, to even directly fueling organic power plants.  Since it doesn't decarbonize the soil (it actually improves the soil it's grown in and requires little to no fertilizer), it's better than cotton and corn as a crop and produces far greater volumes of usable material in the same amount of land.  It's a sort of wonder-plant.\n\nBut, since we can't grow it without also having "pot", we should just get over it and legalize the stuff.  If it were legalized, the government could tax it, generating increased revenue (for the US instead of the cartels), and employ FDA to regulate it, making purer and safer products that are inevitably widely used anyway.  Plus, it would decrease the amount of court-system flow, freeing up more legal system resources to focus on truly necessary law enforcement / punishment.\n\nStudies have also shown that "weed"-use is far less harmful than alcohol, and has also shown that users are far less likely to become violent, which (alcohol) is the primary contributor to domestic abuse and sexual offenses everywhere, along with street violence, and countless other crimes.\n\nHowever, it is still a person/mind-altering drug that needs to be taken seriously.  Any use of a substance that inhibits normal thought-processes and physical functionality is bad and needs control / responsibility / accountability.  Plus, "pot" does cause neurological damage among other significant physical problems (less than alcohol, keep in mind).\n\nI do not see it as a "gateway drug".  But, it is a drug.