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From: C. Penn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Bird Brained
Date: Friday, October 08, 1999 12:47 PM
Hightower commentary
Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999
From: John Roulac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
DRUG WAR STUPIDITY
America's drug war is so stupid that if you pay close attention to
just how stupid it is . . . it'll drive you to use drugs.
How stupid is it? Ask Jean Laprise, a Canadian farmer. He raises
industrial hemp, which is a cousin of marijuana, though hemp can't make
you high because it contains so little of THC, the psychoactive
ingredient that gives marijuana its oomph. Instead, hemp is used to make
an astonishing array of products-from paper to building materials, from
food to biodegradable plastic, from beer to birdseed.
Birdseed is what got Laprise in trouble with America's Drug
Enforcement Agency, which gives new meaning to the term bird brained. He
shipped to a U.S. customer a 20-ton load of birdseed that included hemp
seed in the mix. The hemp seed is high in nothing but protein and is
good for birds and people, but the DEA got wind of Laprise's shipment and
had the whole load impounded, saying it contained a trace of the dreaded
THC.
Let me give you three numbers. Marijuana must have at least 4
percent THC to get anyone high. Industrial hemp is only 1 percent THC,
so you can't get high on it. Laprise's birdseed mix tested out with a
THC content of 0.0014-one fourteen-thousandths of a percent. Even a bird
couldn't get a buzz on that.
To compound this raw stupidity, the DEA demanded that Laprise recall
17 loads of hemp-based products he had earlier shipped to the U.S.
Associated Press reports that this recall included hemp seed used by
Nutiva, a California company that makes granola bars. As a result,
Nutiva had to suspend production, forcing a layoff at the company. Also,
a wholesaler was about to pick up Nutiva's bar for national distribution,
but backed out of the deal after it learned that the DEA was messing with
the company.
This is Jim Hightower saying . . . What the hell is the DEA smoking?
Sources: "Bird seeds made from hemp impounded" by Catherine Tsai.
Associated Press: October 5, 1999.
"Bird food is a casualty of the war on drugs" by Christopher Wren. New
York Times: October 3, 1999.
Cheri Nightingale
Hightower Radio 1800 W. 6th St.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Austin, TX 78703
www.jimhightower.com
512/477-5588
512/478-8536 fax
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C. Penn, HIA Secretary
Hemp Industries Association
PO Box 1080, Occidental, CA 95465
Tel: 707 874 3648 Fax: 707 874 1104
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Websites: http://thehia.org & http://hempstores.com
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