In a message dated 4/28/2006 12:32:08 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
nobleman1962@YAHOO.COM writes:
"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". (no, I didnt hear that.... 
actually, I was too lazy to walk across the street to buy a paper ! ) 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
Didn't the movie : "reefer madness" come out
Right after DuPont Discovered
Nylon?
&... wasn't Levi Making the Best, Most Durable Overalls out of Hemp at the 
Time ???
& I believe Henry Ford was experimenting with Hemp....No, for Auto Body Parts 
Silly ! :o)
Not to mention the US Navy for Rope & Sails & a Hundred other products !!!
I sense a conspiracy going On....
PS: just lost my Keys for the fifth time today Huh??? :o)
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peaceout,
John C...
SLC, UT...
85 Westy; Sitar