Pubdate: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 Source: Anchorage Press (AK) Copyright: 2005 Anchorage Publishing, Inc. Contact: http://www.anchoragepress.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3078 Author: John Suter HEMP TO THE RESCUE! The Wal-Mart stores sell hemp body butter hand cream. Stores sell hemp clothes downtown. How come it is legal to buy/sell hemp products here, but it is illegal to grow hemp to make the products we are allowed to buy and sell? We have to get it from someplace else. Why is it legal someplace else, but not here? Why not hemp? Hemp is a good strong fiber that can make cloth, cordage, pharmaceutical products and so on. All good things. The more goods and services other than oil that Alaska can produce, the more stable our economy will be. JOHN SUTER Chugiak - --- MAP posted-by: SHeath(DPFFLorida)