Pinthouse Pizza
Legalize Hemp
RECEIVED Fri., May 25, 2007
Dear Editor,
The story about Ron Paul is BS [“Reefer Madness,” News, May 25]. Keeping hemp illegal only helps the Canadians get rich because they grow and sell it at a nice profit to the USA. I don't know what nuts don't know the difference between hemp fiber and the safest drug on the planet, cannabis, but you sound like one of them. I own a hemp hat, but I don't smoke it. Wake up and smell the pot. It might not be legal, but it's the most popular drug in the world. With more than 2 million people in our prisons, the drug war is a failure. Keeping hemp fiber illegal only profits the foreign industries while hurting our farmers, and keeping the drug illegal only keeps the black market growing, which will sell anything to anybody, unlike the coffee shops in Holland. I've been there and talked to their police, who said the only problems they have is with the bars, not pot shops.
The story about Ron Paul is BS [“Reefer Madness,” News, May 25]. Keeping hemp illegal only helps the Canadians get rich because they grow and sell it at a nice profit to the USA. I don't know what nuts don't know the difference between hemp fiber and the safest drug on the planet, cannabis, but you sound like one of them. I own a hemp hat, but I don't smoke it. Wake up and smell the pot. It might not be legal, but it's the most popular drug in the world. With more than 2 million people in our prisons, the drug war is a failure. Keeping hemp fiber illegal only profits the foreign industries while hurting our farmers, and keeping the drug illegal only keeps the black market growing, which will sell anything to anybody, unlike the coffee shops in Holland. I've been there and talked to their police, who said the only problems they have is with the bars, not pot shops.
Julian Ward
[News Editor Michael King responds: We're not sure what Julian Ward is smoking, but the central subject of "Reefer Madness: 'Let's Embarrass Ron Paul'" is indeed that hemp farming should be legal, as Paul says repeatedly and as we've regularly reported. So if Ward believes that's "BS," he seems to have gotten lost in the underbrush.]