Tin Foil Treatise: A Delicate Subject

[flawlesscowboy]

Interesting things you could use hemp (the non-getting-you-high version of pot) for if only it were legal to grow here, like it is in several European countries:

• Rope (and not just any rope, the very rope that holds the ejected Air Force pilots to their Nylon parachutes is made from hemp)
• Paper (not the shiny white kind you write on, but EVERY OTHER kind of paper. From your Big Mac container, cardboard boxes, to business cards, almost any kind of general all-purpose paper could be made from hemp. Imagine all the trees you wouldn't have to cut down!)
• Clothing (Which you've undoubtedly encountered.)
• Food (Omega-3s? Yeah, it's in hemp.)

And now You can even build your house out of it.
Oh yeah, and that totally-immoral and illegal-for-really-good-reasons pot plant?

• Potentally slows (and even reverses!) Alzheimers
• Could cure cancer. (Oh, and the US Government knew about this as far back as '74. Thanks Uncle Sam! Citizens first!)
• Hell, why not talk about curing cancer some more?

Oh, and while the all-natural, grows-in-the-ground plant remains illegal under the guise that it has no medical benefit, the FDA currently treats cancer patients with--you guessed it!--synthetic THC.
But it's illegal. And it'll kill you. So don't use it!

Also, lifetime studies of pot smokers have shown that there is no appreciable increase in rates of lung cancer when compared to cigarette smokers. In fact, some people go as far to as to say there is NO link between smoking pot and cancer.

But what do I know? I mean, prohibition and abstinence have totally stopped the use of alcohol and pre-marital, pre-teen sex in this country.

Oh...