Pubdate: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 Source: Edmonds Enterprise (WA) Copyright: 2009 The Enterprise Newspapers Contact: http://www.enterprisenewspapers.com/section/ETPZoneED Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4925 Author: Stan White Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v09.n109.a05.html ALLOW FARMERS TO GROW HEMP A sane argument to caging responsible adults for using the relatively safe, socially acceptable, God-given plant cannabis (marijuana) doesn't exist and then Jeanne M. Ferguson eludes to hemp with out THC ("Cannabis plant has many uses," Jan. 29). A head-shaking realization concerning hemp farming is that communist Chinese farmers are allowed to grow hemp but free American farmers may not. Ironically, America's greatest debt to a foreign country is with China. It's time to re-introduce hemp as a component of American agriculture because hemp prohibition is anti-American. Stan White Dillon, Colo. - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin