Letter to The Washington Post
From Drug Watch/Minnesota
Should Teach The "Me No Marijuana" Hemp Promoters
That Trying to Distance Themselves From Marijuana Reform Will Not Stop The Lying
(Marijuananews note: The marijuana reform
movement may be unique in trying to make the views of our opposition – in their own
words – widely known. Listen to what they are really
saying. And look at what the Washington Post is publishing!
I hope that the "industrial hemp" promoters will realize that nothing that they
can say or do will stop the prohibitionists from opposing cannabis in any form.)
Hemp Is Marijuana
May 8, 1999
From the Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com
It is shocking that former CIA director James Woolsey—at one
time the chief intelligence gatherer for the whole United States—failed to properly
gather information about his client, North American Industrial Hemp Council (NAIHC).
See
And With Friends Like
These; Part 2.
Former Head of CIA, Now at the North American Industrial Hemp Council, Tells Post That
NORML is "welcome to join his side, though its presence on his team borders on
absurd:"
"Hemp is nature’s own marijuana eradication system."
Woolsey assures us that none of NAIHC’s members wears tie-dyed shirts [Federal
Page, April 30]. Perhaps he should check their boxers. Some of the group’s members
and directors are vigorous pro-drug advocates.
Had he checked, lobbyist Woolsey would have discovered that founding member and
immediate past-NAIHC vice president David Morris has been pushing legalization of
marijuana, marijuana cigarettes for medicine and industrial cannabis hemp for years in his
columns in the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press.
Another board member, Andrew Graves, is party to a lawsuit brought by the Kentucky Hemp
Growers Cooperative to force the federal government to legally permit the growing of
industrial cannabis (marijuana) hemp. The two lead lawyers in the suit—Michael
Kennedy of New York and Burl McCoy of Kentucky—are on the roster of NORML, the
National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, an aggressive pro-marijuana
legalization advocate.
Surfing the ‘Net would have further edified lobbyist Woolsey. He could have
observed for himself the hemp-marijuana drug connection; he could see for himself that NAIHC appears in alphabetical order right after NORML, the Lindesmith
Center, Marijuana Policy Project and other pro-marijuana organizations on the
International Hemp Association Web site.
(Marijuananews note: Something new: guilt by alphabetical
association!)
Had Woolsey done a proper background check on "industrial hemp," he would
have found that the market does not support the need for another expensive,
labor-intensive, hard-to-process, bast fiber, "industrial hemp." We are keenly
aware, as should Woolsey be, that industrial cannabis hemp can be refined or
"cut" for marijuana street dealing. That is exactly one of the reasons NORML and
other pro-drug groups support Woolsey and the NAIHC effort.
See
Canadian Farmers Get
High Yields From Hemp Harvest;
24-Fold Increase In Acreage In Western Canada Over Last Year!
DEAland Farmers Find DEA Unyielding In Hate Harvest
It is my hope that upon review of so-called "industrial hemp," Woolsey will
honorably resign.
The writer is co-chair of Drug Watch/Minnesota.
See
Minneapolis
Prohibitionist Opposes Hemp Cultivation, Says
"The marijuana smoked at Woodstock contained "industrial hemp" levels of
THC."
See The Punch Line At the End
and
Minnesota Senate
Agriculture and Rural Development Committee
Votes Unanimously To Legalize Hemp Production;
"Endorsed by the Farm Bureau, Farmers Union and a host of other farm
organizations."
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