"Hippie Effort to Market Pot"  Film at 11:00!!

  Hemp is not pot... Hemp is a much maligned material that makes the best natural fiber for rope, sail cloth & clothes.  Hemp oil is amazing stuff, high in Omega fatty acids ( as an example:  http://www.ratical.org/renewables/TherapHoil.html )  These are just two useful things that come to mind that we can't take advantage of because of a paranoid misconception (shades of "Reefer Madness" for those of us in the boomer age category).

  Better check your demographics Robert... you will find a substantial amount of herb friendly folk are mid to upper class white collar people AND neo-cons espousing strong Christian values.  (Ya better sit down for this one too... you've even met a bunch at some campouts we've both been to ~ AND I would bet my CV joints <cheap pun> that there were even some that went out of their way to help you in your time of need  ~ wait GW even "used" to smoke the stuff)

  So, pinning this on a very dated stereotype is not valid.

  Personally, I don't use anything I can't buy at the store.  I'm a career military man and since it's illegal and I'm subject to double jeopardy it isn't worth the risk.  If it were legal I probably would.

  Lastly, when was the last time you heard a news story "Pot crazed hippie�s rampage ~ 12 dead in Humboldt shooting spree".  The same cannot be said for the legal drug (Alcohol).  Give me a hungry stoner over a mean drunk any day!

  Brian
  Not so closet short haired Libertarian/demi-hippie with Westfalia tendancies