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With Friends Like These Hemp Doesnt Need Any Enemies
(Marijuananews note: Last week I got the following from cair@cair.net [Sam H. Clauder II]:
"Where's the story about the California Democratic Party adopting the resolution?"
To which I responded: See Marijuana Induces Minimum Driving
Impairment Compared to Alcohol; California Democrats Adopt Resolution Supporting
HempNORML Weekly Press Release
at http://www.marijuananews.com/marijuana_induces_minimum_drivin.htm
I received the following response:
5/1/99 2:31:13 PM Central Daylight Time cair@cair.net (Sam H. Clauder II)
Neither Allen St. Pierre nor the NORML Foundation asked or told me that they were
going to release a PR about this. They had no authority to do this. Please explain why,
with all the other PRs that were sent out about this campaign, that the only one you
posted was from an organization that has never shown any interest in propagating the truth
about Industrial Hemp? Is this website sponsored by NORML?
Since the DEA and ONDCP stopped arguing against Industrial Hemp
years ago, marijuana smokers are the only ones left to oppose CAIRs campaign. No
media outlet in California can get any individual or entity, public or private, to argue
against me on the issues surrounding Industrial Hemp.
See
CBS Eye On America
Lets Drug Czar Barry McCaffrey Make a Fool Of Himself About Hemp Cultivation
and
Drug Czar Barry
McCaffrey VS Hemp In Kentucky; An Interview and A Response From A Kentucky Farmer
and
NORML Director
Defends Canadian Imprisoned In Nicaragua
After DEA "Convinces" Local Narks That Hemp Is Just Marijuana Really Sad
and
The Sioux May Have To
Sue The DEA To Be Allowed To Grow Hemp On Tribal Lands
and
A Wry Look At the
Louisville Forum On Hemp; "The DEA argument was the party line."
and
"It is time that hemp once again be made legal in the United States."
Says Multinational Monitor -- Petitioner In DEA Suit
and
NH State
Representative Sues DEA For Right to Grow Hemp; Seeks Restraining Order
and
Hemp Opposed By
Authorities In Ohio:
"The Drug Enforcement Administration and the White House Office of National Drug
Control Policy
have said that permitting hemp farming would send the wrong signal to young people."
and
The Ban On Industrial
Hemp May Be Hurting Marijuana Prohibition
Even More Than Legalizing It Would.
Is The Czar Considering A Tactical Retreat? An Article And A Great Editorial
and
Hawaii Authorizes
Industrial Hemp Seed Variety Trials.
"...DEA will consider setting the level of THC content for Cannabis Sativa L., hemp
that may be grown for industrial purposes."
You know who they can get? Dope smokers who want to patronize the
DEAs old argument that hemp and marijuana are the same! Jack Herer, Dennis Peron,
and Ed Rosenthal! Theyre the only opposition left! Pathetic nitwits who care nothing
for the legal and political requisites necessary to accomplish real change in this
society!
See
Jack Herer To Emcee
99 Santa Cruz Industrial Hemp Expo
Fortunately, this opposition continues to publicly disgrace itself in front of the broad
majority of California voters, and so it is actually more of a political asset than a
liability. The public believes, if they are against me, I must be right.
My concern with your website and the posting of this PR is that, by citing me and NORML as sources of the story, youre feeding naive minds the same false propaganda that the DEA and ONDCP used to promulgate the bald-faced lie that Industrial Hemp and mj are the same thing. And, in the face of the complete retreat of the DEA and ONDCP to continue this falsehood, you are all thats left.
I challenge you to acknowledge and accept what has been indisputably proven to me over
and over again, that Industrial Hemp is not mj, in any way, shape and form, once the seed
is planted in the ground. But I especially want your cooperation in ceasing to discredit
this and other campaigns on behalf of Industrial Hemp by reporting on them as if they are
furthering the cause of mj legalization.
See
Is The Hemp
Leaf Just A Fig Leaf For Marijuana? Uneasy Relationships in the Cannabis Movements
If not, then please pull this PR off your website and dont post another report on this campaign. But, especially, DONT EVER MENTION ME, C.A.I.R., OR OUR CAMPAIGN ON BEHALF OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP, IN THE SAME CONTEXT WITH ANY (ab)NORML CHAPTER OR PERSON, AGAIN!!!!!
Thank you.
(Marijuananews note: First, when a press release goes out it is not customary to call the sender to ask for permission to quote it. After all, that is why releases are sent out. And you can quote me on that.
Second, if it werent for Jack Herer most of the "Me No Marijuana" hemp promoters would never have heard of hemp.
Third, very simply, hemp is not necessarily marijuana, but all marijuana is necessarily
hemp. Swiss hemp has no THC limits, but Canadian and other Western European hemp have a
very low limit.
See
Switzerland
Moves Toward Legalization; Sweden Moves Toward Apoplexy
Fourth, I find it very strange that "Industrial Hemp" advocates are opposed
to people who support hemp cultivation, and tell the truth about it, and then suck up to
people who want to arrest hemp farmers and lie about it.
See
Wisconsin
Legislator Wants To Legalize Hemp; Fears Support Of Marijuana Reform Advocates;
Attorney General Is Opposed; Narks Claim Local Weed Is 25% THC!
Fifth, I will continue to run the NORML weekly press releases, as well as other stories about hemp, and I am delighted to have John Dvorak as the contributing editor of the Hemp Pages.
Sixth, anyone who thinks that the hemp issue can be separated from the rest of the cannabis issues is free to think that, but that is not my reading of the political reality.
Seventh, if at all possible, I will definitely avoid any future mention of CAIR. I wouldnt want to create the impression that hemp causes bad manners.
For Mr. Clauder's views on how marijuana is to hemp as vodka
is to potatoes see www.cair.net
-- RC)
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 natures own marijuana eradication system."
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