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Azeez Hayne <ahayne1@cc.swarthmore.edu> writes:

>>  Geez. Noone who's watched dope smokers passively goofing and yukking 
>>their way through life would call hemp the most "benign" plant known to 
>>man. I'd say that _basil_ is the most benign plant known to man (or woman 
>>for that matter). Hemp is probably slightly to the other side of 
>>belladonna. Also (if you know your history, which you apparently don't), 

 Belladonna is a very dangerous plant. Marijuana in a recent (supreme
court?) inquiry was found to be one of the safest therapeutically
active drugs known to man. Safer than boiled potatoes. I don't know what
you mean by "goofing and yukking their lives away", but I think that
many chronic marijauna smokers enjoy their lives more than most non-smokers.
You don't see rastafarians going to war and killing eachother...

>>the dope scare of the 20s was due more to widespread use of opiates in 
>>patent medicines (cough, colic and the like) than anything Hearst did. 
>>The "secret ingredient" in such medicines resulted in very widespread 
>>addiction in the U.S. population. Thus the general public probably knew 
>>more about real addiction and drug dependency than it does today. You'd 
>>probably be a lot better off if you smoked basil. More clearheaded, 
>>anyway.

 What do opiates have to do with marijuana? The dope scare of the 20's
(wasn't it the 30's?) was due to WR Hearst's beat-up newspaper articles
which talked about people smoking the "killer weed". Anslinger based most
of his argument on these fallacious articles, not on patent medicines.

  Anyway, even if you _do_ think the drug should be illegal, shouldn't
low-THC (with virtually zero potential for recreational use, or as you
would put it "abuse") strains of hemp be legal? They are biological
inferior to real hemp but they're still better than nothing.

Russell
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