On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 10:44:12 -0500, Bill R
wrote:

Persephone wrote:

On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:14:31 GMT, Charles
wrote:


On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:51:14 -0600, "brsher"
wrote:


I have a small garden. Every year I plant beefsteak and cherry tomatoes.
I've also planted red peppers once or twice. But this year I'm looking for
something different to plant. I live in Missouri. Can anyone suggest
something that is easy to grow and that I can consume almost everyday?
Thank you for your
suggestions.



hemp


Actually, he makes a good point -- sorta.

People don't realize that hemp was used for so many things in ancient
times -- clothing, sails, ropes, all kinds of products.

Now, to get hemp clothing, we have to import from Canada! Ridiculous.

Persephone

In spite of all your so called "advantages" of growing hemp (and a lot
of them are a real stretch, you appear to know next to nothing about
petroleum in automobiles)


Err...people are running their automobiles on cleaned-up restaurant
oils! WHO "knows next to nothing" about auto fuels?

and you failed to advise that the grower may spend
his summer (or longer) in jail.

Why would I have to "advise", when everybody knows about persecuting
pot growers, while subsidizing tobacco growers. Now *there's* a
REALLY dangerous drug!

There isn't a summer that goes by that
someone in my area who grows hemp (pot) is caught and goes to jail
and/or is heavily fined. Some areas of the country are quite liberal and
look the other way; some aren't and it isn't worth growing it if it is
illegal to grow it in your area. And try getting a good job if you have
been convicted of growing pot. It is not going to happen.

It's interesting to read the history of how industrial hemp became
linked with "medicinal" marijuana, and criminalized. It was not
always so. The fine hand of the automobile and oil industries can be
discerned therein. Also the moralizing of 1930's bureaucratic
fanatics, tinged with racism toward blacks.

There have been quite a number of books written which detail that
politically-motivated history. Dismaying.

Confabulating industrial hemp -- one of the world's most ancient and
useful commodities -- with "drug" marijuana is useful to the oil and
auto industries, and to the moralizers who commit all kinds of evil
themselves, but find it convenient to demonize others.

Speaking of medical marijuana, I can think of nothing more
hard-hearted than to deny a very sick, possibly terminal, patient
the relief of using that natural "drug".

Disclaimer: I don't use.

Persephone