Ron Paul's Sleeper Issue: Industrial Hemp

Family farmers are hurt by income taxes and death taxes. I'll bet they'd rather have the government off their backs. Subsidies require all kinds of government paperwork. Their big agri-business competitors can afford to deal with government (they got big in order to defend themselves against government), but smaller farm families, can't.

The good news? Corporations can't vote.

IMissLiberty

Aren't farmers heavily dependant on government subsidies? Aren't they extremely fearful of loosing the trade barriers which today protect them from competition with extreme low-cost farmers in third world countries?

US farmers would be completely wiped off the map if they were exposed to market economy and free trade. In developed countries, people can do much more productive work than farming. In undeveloped parts of the word, farming is the only job most people know how to do.

I think that farmers are the most hardcore big-government-supporters around. Ron Pauls libertarian politics would immediately and totally ruin every cotton farming cowboy in Texas. Few people in the world parasite so intensley on tax payers money and trade barriers as they do. Farmers are simply bought by corrupt politicians at the expense of tax payers, food consumers and farmers in poor countries.

If farmers just cry loud enough, politicians will simply start pay farmers to produce hemp, and then pay them even more to burn it. That's how agricultural policy works.

Hemp oil, cold pressed, actually tastes even BETTER than olive oil. It's a lovely green color, and you can generally find it in the local hippie health food store. It's a plant-based source of the same kind of "good" cholesterol that's in salmon and other fatty fish. Hemp oil contains no THC and does not get you "high."
JMR

i think we should try to get dr pauls campaigne to use MADE IN AMERICA brand t-shirts like AMERICAN APPARREL.
I recently bought a RON PAUL t-shirt at the official rally in mt. view, and the t-shirts where all GIDEON brand, made in mexico guatamala hunduras etc etc.
i'm not trying to stir up trouble, just a thought about UBER political correctness.
plus american apperral t-shirts are very comfy too

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....I want to thank all of you for this thread because I for one am learning a lot.
Living in Southern California I am most appreciative of our local farmers and markets. I buy organic when I can but no longer feel a need for "certified organic" given the conglomerates are entering the field and even Whole Foods can't be entirely trusted. Genetically modified, to me, is terrifying. At our local market, many great providers grow organic but can't afford the $10,000 price required to be certified. You know after talking to them for a few minutes if they are "for real." They get a glazed look in their eyes and begin talking very animatedly and with a great deal of frustration. I do not trust "certified organic" and grown in Mexico; the water alone used to irrigate is suspect.

The potential of hemp, the revival of farming it represents, and the degree to which it is suppressed speaks volumes to me. Here are two articles that, while not centered on hemp, I find related and interesting.

1) Monsanto's near monopoly on corn:
http://www.arkinstitute.c...
2) Rockefeller's monopoly on Oil and farming in ancient Egypt
http://reformation.org/oi...

And, to those of you who are farmers....thank you for the battles you fight...those battles are really important!

It's why I call myself, "The Granger", which is a member of a farming fraternity. I have been fighting to farm industrial hemp in CA since 1992. Last year, The Patrons of Husbandry, informally known as Grangers, passed a resolution and hired a lobbiest, which helped get Leno (D) and DeVore (R) to create AB1147, which passed all the assembly committees, only to be defeated by Schwartzennegger, who claims to be "Green". This year AB684 written a little different, and being rewritten as it passes through the assembly committees, is preparing to meet with Schwartzennegger again. I write to him frequently about it, and get email from him that says, Thank you, You're a good citizen." I don't think it will pass, and at this point I think the whole cannabis issue needs to be approached from a new perspective.

First I believe the word "marijuana" is slang, and unfit for the courts, so it should be stricken.

Second, I think cannabis and hemp need to conceed to the DEA/Feds, that it is the same plant, and how it is cultivated is the issue/difference. Here in CA, the state passed medicinal cannabis laws, Proposition 215 (56% of CA voted FOR it, feds interfer, as usual) and that crop is what is sustaining threee counties, so the issue of medicinal canabis is really not an issue.

Third, BOTH crops need to fall under a schedule SIX classification, which would enable people to grow both. Cannabis hemp would be grown in the field, and medicinal canabis would be grown in secured areas, as it has always been, since men cultivated it for medicinal and recreational uses.

I fully believe that the cannabis is revolutionary, and like the framers of the US Constitution, what will really set us free. I support Ron Paul because I agree with him that the better fight is done legally. If Dr Know and I are wrong, there's always the bloody revolution, or prison to fall back on.

They fail to mention the impact that corn for energy has on our food supply. Ranchers can hardly afford to feed their beeves corn now, and we have had to find other grain alternatives for our horses too, as a result. Hemp negates that and is far more efficient for bio fuels, as well as other products. Farmers have been 'subsidizing' their legal crops with cash crops like Hemp for years. Time for some sound judgement in high places...

25 cents a gallon if we want it, this should be tied in with his foriegn policy, after all if were not going to fight oil wars anymore, we should drive our cars with HEMP GASOLINE

http://www.oddfrog.com/pa...

Absolutely-correct. Hemp seed oil and hemp derived methanol might be able to achieve through capitalism what corn-ethanol subsidies are failing to achieve while making my steaks more-expensive through socialism. And unlike corn, hemp can grow well on marginal land. The problem is, pot is the holiest and least-rational component of the right's hysterical, tax and spend drugwar, so there's a lot of emotion out there, and precious little wisdom. One would think the holier-than-thou lobby would be easier to convince that God does not create mistakes, but so-far I've failed. The true irony is that hemp farmers' pollen would make life a nightmare for recreational outdoor growers by giving them seeds, but drug warriors aren't especially well known for their intelligence regarding unintended consequences...
JMR