Making marijuana 'lowest law enforcement priority' for Kalamazoo police a step closer to citywide vote

Rack any and all Billy Madison resets.

Wow... they found that quote inappropriate???

Still on the books.

Also it is interesting to note that about that same time a certain company came out with a new product called "Nylon". They needed a market for this product, so they fought hard in congress to get hemp made illegal. That paved the way for them to sell the Navy nylon rope, instead of the much superior hemp rope for mooring their ships. A"captive" market with no "legal" alternatives. Nylon lines turned out to be killers. You see, nylon will stretch to it's breaking point, releasing tremendous amounts of energy, which has been known to kill, and even cut a person in half. The traditional hemp lines used would not do so. Nylon, without UV additives, would deteriorate much quicker as well, making it more costly in the long run. Hemp does not contain thc, period. Hemp contains no canabiniods, and is therefore safe. Hemp plants do contain oils, which are better for ethanol production than corn. Hemp material used to be the material of choice for clothing, as it was much more durable than cotton. Original "jeans" were made from hemp, and outlasted cotton jeans. The only reason hemp is illegal is that it was difficult for police to tell the difference between cannabis and hemp.

Hemp is the male plant is it not?

No hemp is not the male plant. Hemp is an entirely separate species from the psychoactive variety. It's called cannabis ruderalis. They are not without cannabinoids as the other poster stated. They have very low amounts of THC... not none.

Sorry. Nice story, but just too many holes in it. See, for example, http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm for a short history of the marijuana laws. See http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/hemp/taxact/taxact.htm for the full transcripts of the congressional hearings of the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, as well as the most complete discussion of the Hearst/DuPont theory. See also http://druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/history.htm for additional histories and original documents.

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

And your proof that pot kills?
Veterans Affairs scientists looked at whether heavy marijuana use as a young adult caused long-term problems later, studying identical twins in which one twin had been a heavy marijuana user for a year or longer but had stopped at least one month before the study, while the second twin had used marijuana no more than five times ever. Marijuana use had no significant impact on physical or mental health care utilization, health-related quality of life, or current socio-demographic characteristics. Eisen SE et al. Does Marijuana Use Have Residual Adverse Effects on Self-Reported Health Measures, Socio-Demographics or Quality of Life? A Monozygotic Co-Twin Control Study in Men. Addiction. Vol. 97 No. 9. p.1083-1086. Sept. 1997

Marijuana is often called a "gateway drug" by supporters of prohibition, who point to statistical "associations" indicating that persons who use marijuana are more likely to eventually try hard drugs than those who never use marijuana - implying that marijuana use somehow causes hard drug use. But a model developed by RAND Corp. researcher Andrew Morral demonstrates that these associations can be explained "without requiring a gateway effect." More likely, this federally funded study suggests, some people simply have an underlying propensity to try drugs, and start with what's most readily available. Morral AR, McCaffrey D and Paddock S. Reassessing the Marijuana Gateway Effect. Addiction. December 2002. p. 1493-1504.

Federal researchers implanted several types of cancer, including leukemia and lung cancers, in mice, then treated them with cannabinoids (unique, active components found in marijuana). THC and other cannabinoids shrank tumors and increased the mice's lifespans. Munson, AE et al. Antineoplastic Activity of Cannabinoids. Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Sept. 1975. p. 597-602.
In a 1994 study the government tried to suppress, federal researchers gave mice and rats massive doses of THC, looking for cancers or other signs of toxicity. The rodents given THC lived longer and had fewer cancers, "in a dose-dependent manner" (i.e. the more THC they got, the fewer tumors). NTP Technical Report On The Toxicology And Carcinogenesis Studies Of 1-Trans- Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, CAS No. 1972-08-3, In F344/N Rats And B6C3F Mice, Gavage Studies.
Researchers at the Kaiser-Permanente HMO, funded by NIDA, followed 65,000 patients for nearly a decade, comparing cancer rates among non-smokers, tobacco smokers, and marijuana smokers. Tobacco smokers had massively higher rates of lung cancer and other cancers. Marijuana smokers who didn't also use tobacco had no increase in risk of tobacco-related cancers or of cancer risk overall. In fact their rates of lung and most other cancers were slightly lower than non-smokers, though the difference did not reach statistical significance. Sidney, S. et al. Marijuana Use and Cancer Incidence (California, United States). Cancer Causes and Control. Vol. 8. Sept. 1997, p. 722-728.

The White House had the National Research Council examine the data being gathered about drug use and the effects of U.S. drug policies. NRC concluded, "the nation possesses little information about the effectiveness of current drug policy, especially of drug law enforcement." And what data exist show "little apparent relationship between severity of sanctions prescribed for drug use and prevalence or frequency of use." In other words, there is no proof that prohibition - the cornerstone of U.S. drug policy for a century - reduces drug use.

It does produce a great deal of profit though n'est-ce pas?