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Subject:Re: Hippie Effort to Market Pot ~ IFilm at 11:00 Fryeday sooo hey
From:Tom Sinclair
Date:Fri, 28 Apr 2006 14:38:22 -0700

For Tdi guys, you can also make some dank biodiesel
from hemp oil.

Tom
Career Hippie

--- Brian Tipsword <nobleman1962@YAHOO.COM> wrote:

> "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
>

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