Pubdate: Mon, 13 Oct 1997
Source: Spokesman-Review, Spokane (WA)
Author: Rand Clifford

Deeper we slip down the path of drug war, losing rights as we go. Which
brings us to hemp.

People are learning how many products our farmers could give us with hemp.
"Why on Earth aren't we growing hemp?" is being asked louder and clearer.
Sen. Larry Craig's new bill would stifle public input regarding management
of public forests, going as far as allowing timber sales that lose money if
done in the name of "forest health." More networks of roads and clearcuts
will never be healthy for our ravaged forest ecosystems. And now, your right
to do anything to help could be snuffed. Timber barons have legendary power
over Congress. Craig is not the only one sucking in heaps of timber dollars.
That's a main reason our farmers have no right to energize our economy and
help our environment with hemp.

Virtually all forest products could be replaced with hemp products.

Industrial hemp, which has no drug potential.

Industrial hemp's troublesome cousin, cannabis hemp (marijuana), is all the
feds want to talk about, hoping knowledge of non-drug hemp will not brighten
the minds of too many voters.

Shouting, "Save our children!" tops the feds' favorite theatrics for keeping
from us our right to hemp.

Learn why so many other countries are charging ahead with hemp. Find the
truth about what timber barons and their Larry Craigs are doing for their
pockets, at the expense of our children.

Randall G. Clifford
Spokane, WA