Pubdate: Sun, 17 Mar 2002
Source: San Jose Mercury News (CA)
Copyright: 2002 San Jose Mercury News
Contact:  http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/390
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n344/a07.html?5643
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/hemp.htm (Hemp)

HEMP FOODS CONTAIN MINUTE AMOUNTS OF THC

I enjoyed reading Carolyn Jung's article on hemp ("Manufacturers of hemp 
food gear up for a fight,"  Food, Feb. 27).  However, I would like to point 
out a couple of inconsistencies regarding your description of THC 
(tetrahydrocannibinal).

First, you stated that hemp products contain small amounts of THC. The 
wording should have been minute amounts.  And your general description of 
THC was misleading.  Marijuana is not a hallucinogenic.  Anybody who has 
told you that is either misinformed or is dedicated to misleading people 
for the sake of contributing to our government's propaganda regarding 
marijuana legalization.

Hemp has come under fire from our hard-up right-wing government.  How about 
helping out and contributing to our cause, to rid us of the mean-spirited 
laws our government hides behind, for the sole purpose of putting 
consenting adults in jail for doing something that time and again has been 
proven to not cause short or long-term health effects?

Log on to www.norml.org and consider helping out.

Mike Armer San Jose
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