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Besides being founders of our Republic, what did Thomas Jefferson and George Washington have in common? Answer: Hemp.
America's founders were strong promoters of this extraordinarily-useful agricultural crop, and both Jefferson and Washington grew it. The first draft of our Constitution was written on hemp paper, and as late as World War II, the government urgently pushed farmers to grow the crop as part of a "Hemp for Victory" program.
So why are American farmers today prohibited from producing this patriotic, profitable, pesticide-free plant? Political nuttiness. Most recently, in a frenzy of reefer madness, US drug police decided that President Nixon's "Controlled Substance Act of 1970" not only outlawed marijuana, but also its non-narcotic cousin, industrial hemp. If ignorance is bliss, they must've been ecstatic, yet their nuttiness remains the law of our land.
given the right wing has never met an opportunity to exploit the law wonder why the aren't following in the framers footsteps now, could it be they didn't think it would be legal so they never came up with some clandestine way to turn it into privatized weak weed lots a bucks but the drug market would still flourish because they would be to cheap to sell it without stepping on it 1 2 3 times.
they must not have realized is more profitable to grow and market it than putting people in their privatized jails for years for a oz. or is it?
bet those founders got loaded daily remember the European elite and their snuff boxes on their wrist (cocaine) and the hanky to handle the drainage. old dudes were livin' large and could not "JUST SAY NO".
cocaine, rich man's aspirin?
