29-12-2002 02:37									#1
	Legalisation of Marijuana and the textiles industry Tired of ads?

If/when this stuff is legal to smoke, will hemp clothing return?

And if so, would you smoke your socks?

	29-12-2002 02:46									#2
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I say you should smoke everyday.
I say you should scatter seeds all over so that it grows everywhere, thus not only do you get a better environment, when they too many of them grow you can cut them down and smoke em and make clothes out of them...
hippie:
but of course marijuana social stigma posses problems in the land of the free...

	29-12-2002 03:09									#3
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For hemp production, the stalk is the important part, which has a lower concentration of THC than the leaves. It would mostly just be a waste to smoke your socks.

	29-12-2002 03:23									#4
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I don't see why the growing of industrial hemp (which provides excellent, pliant burlap and ropes, not ideal for clothing) should not be legal under controlled conditions. And I'm a strong opponent of legalising marijuana, mind.

	29-12-2002 04:12									#5
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umm the main problem being you need the marijuana plant to make the hemp Buck... you legalize hemp... think how much easier it is to make marijuana...

	29-12-2002 04:27									#6
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The marijuana legalization lobby got shot down pretty thoroughly this last election, so don't go buying any stock in the hemp industry!

	29-12-2002 04:31									#7
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Hemp clothing will NEVER return. Too uncomfortable. It's like wearing clothes made out of pubic hair.

	29-12-2002 06:13									#8
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quote: The marijuana legalization lobby got shot down pretty thoroughly this last election, so don't go buying any stock in the hemp industry!

Then again, that's because most people who oppose marijuana do so because of government and/or religious propaganda, not out of any rational logic.

People who say "Marijuana should be kept illegal" while drinking a beer, for example, are not in touch with reality.

	29-12-2002 07:32									#9
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quote: Originally posted by statusperfect Too uncomfortable. It's like wearing clothes made out of pubic hair.

uncomfortable you say?

	29-12-2002 07:34									#10
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I like the analogy statusperfect

	29-12-2002 07:37									#11
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But hemp still smells better.

	29-12-2002 07:41									#12
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Don't knock pubic hair socks, nothing else tastes the same.

	29-12-2002 07:43									#13
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Trust me.. cannabis can have a much more detrimental effect than alohol.. time factor considered.

	29-12-2002 07:51									#14
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Spoilsport!!

	29-12-2002 07:54									#15
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Trust me... cannabis can confuse your feet to such an extent you believe in trees. Then what would you do? Smoke your table? I don't think so.

	29-12-2002 09:39									#16
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quote: Originally posted by David Floyd Then again, that's because most people who oppose marijuana do so because of government and/or religious propaganda, not out of any rational logic.

Yet these same people swallow the trashy pseudo-research put out by the minions of the NRA. Ironic don't you think?

	29-12-2002 09:52									#17
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quote: And I'm a strong opponent of legalising marijuana, mind.

I thought you were liberal?

	29-12-2002 12:38									#18
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hemp

	29-12-2002 12:40									#19
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weed

	29-12-2002 13:15									#20
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quote: Yet these same people swallow the trashy pseudo-research put out by the minions of the NRA. Ironic don't you think?

You'll notice that I don't generally quote NRA research, because I don't care if guns kill thousands of people or not. It's the principle of property rights that I care about. Personally, I have no opinion on the quality of either side's research into "defensive gun use", etc., because I don't think that has anything to do with whether guns should be legal. ****, there could be 2 million gun deaths a year and I'd still oppose gun control.

	29-12-2002 16:50									#21
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so, you also oppose control of nuclear weapons?

	29-12-2002 18:22									#22
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Liberal? What an astoundingly silly thought.

I'm a civic republican (on the traidtional freedom scale) and a radical. Which means I believe that freedom is power over your own governance to as large an extent as possible. And that drug users are currently a weak group with little power in society. And that this can only be rectified by stopping the harmful effects of drugs, that are keeping them back.

Unlike an american-style liberal I'm not for a ban for their own best, but because I believe society would be a better place if they had a bigger voice. I don't want to rule over them, I want them to rule over me on an equal basis.

	29-12-2002 20:51									#23
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quote: Originally posted by David Floyd ****, there could be 2 million gun deaths a year and I'd still oppose gun control.

The law of the land was never meant to be ruthless.

	29-12-2002 22:18									#24
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quote: Originally posted by David Floyd Then again, that's because most people who oppose marijuana do so because of government and/or religious propaganda, not out of any rational logic. People who say "Marijuana should be kept illegal" while drinking a beer, for example, are not in touch with reality.

See David, I know you have the potential to make sense... why aren't you consistent?

	30-12-2002 02:58									#25
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quote: The law of the land was never meant to be ruthless.

Eh?

	30-12-2002 04:13									#26
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quote: Originally posted by Anodyne uncomfortable you say?

Yes! UNcomfortable. It's itchy and crude. I wouldn't wear it even for the coolness factor.

	30-12-2002 04:34									#27
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quote: Originally posted by David Floyd Eh?

If our annual murder rate was approaching 2 million there is no way you or anyone else could stop the government from taking action, 2nd amendment or no 2nd amendment.

	30-12-2002 04:37									#28
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quote: Originally posted by Asher I thought you were liberal?

Who said one couldn't be a liberal while not being in favor of legalization of marijuana?

	30-12-2002 04:38									#29
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I've got a CD carrier thing made out of Hemp. It's like Jute or Sisal-based Burlap, except much less hard (and I assume itchy).

	30-12-2002 04:45									#30
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quote: If our annual murder rate was approaching 2 million there is no way you or anyone else could stop the government from taking action, 2nd amendment or no 2nd amendment.

Well, if the government tried to completely ban guns, I'd only hope that gun owners would assassinate as many politicians as possible.