Comments on: DEA v.s. Hemp http://www.vegblog.org/archive/2003/04/08/dea-vs-hemp/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:55:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: gasump http://www.vegblog.org/archive/2003/04/08/dea-vs-hemp/comment-page-1/#comment-850 gasump Fri, 28 Apr 2006 22:58:12 +0000 http://new.vegblog.org/2003/04/08/dea-vs-hemp/#comment-850 Absurd fight? Not when you're an agency protecting the business and fortunes of the powerful and super rich! There is one reason, and one reason only, for the total demonisation of hemp - the damage it would do to the megabusinesses involved in oil, agrochemicals, pulp/paper/timber products et al. Hemp was outlawed initially to allow a relatively small group of individuals to make fortunes because they had control of new industrial processes that the world would need in the future. A single crop endangered their plans, not because it would stop development of these processes, but because it meant competition and potential loss of control. Hemp is that crop, and the descendants (biological and political) of that group of individuals now control the political process of the US state. They will fight tooth and nail to prevent Hemp ever becoming accepted in the USA or other countries (see some of the pressure applied to developing countries to 'discourage' Hemp cultivation). The DEA is just one pawn in that fight. Absurd fight? Not when you’re an agency protecting the business and fortunes of the powerful and super rich! There is one reason, and one reason only, for the total demonisation of hemp - the damage it would do to the megabusinesses involved in oil, agrochemicals, pulp/paper/timber products et al. Hemp was outlawed initially to allow a relatively small group of individuals to make fortunes because they had control of new industrial processes that the world would need in the future. A single crop endangered their plans, not because it would stop development of these processes, but because it meant competition and potential loss of control.

Hemp is that crop, and the descendants (biological and political) of that group of individuals now control the political process of the US state. They will fight tooth and nail to prevent Hemp ever becoming accepted in the USA or other countries (see some of the pressure applied to developing countries to ‘discourage’ Hemp cultivation). The DEA is just one pawn in that fight.

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