dear volks

well let me just say that sometimes your sticking your hand into what 
you think is a jar of honey and what you got instead is a honeybee 
hive.

i think i've shook the last of the bees from my hands - for the record, 
i do not condone or condemn legal or illegal drug use. it seems to me 
that people are pretty good at arriving at their own conclusions 
without me.

i am horrified by the prospect(first heard on NPR about two months ago) 
of farming animals so that they might converted to biodiesel - nothing 
could better express our culturally thoughtless use of energy, and 
desperate attempts to keep supplies secure.

as far as my violation of "netiquette" in posting to the list emails 
sent to me alone, though in repsonse to a public post of mine - i will 
certainly follow the rules if i want to play the game, although i do 
believe that this rule is very different from what we expect of each 
other in a forum with more accountability. for example, if i were to 
pull you aside in a group discussion to lambast your religion, or 
lifestyle, or call you names, no matter how frivilous, i dont think 
that i'd have the right to expect you to keep that a secret from the 
rest of the group, or anyone else.

one way of considering the notion of free will is that the universe 
prevents no one from making an ass of him or her self. and the 
repercussions of that fall freely as rain.

and oh brother, i've probably already put my foot right back in my mouth

see you in the funny papers

monte

On Apr 28, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Tom Sinclair wrote:

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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