Indiana senator calls for hemp legalization
by Rebecca Townsend
In a move meant to bolster Indiana's agricultural economy and farmland preservation efforts, State Sen. Richard Young Jr., D-Milltown, renewed his legislative efforts to legalize hemp production in Indiana. Last session he issued a resolution urging his colleagues to appreciate the business and environmental benefits of legalization.
The following is excerpted from the senator's Oct. 18 news release:
Put simply, hemp is an excellent alternative crop. It can be harvested just 120 days after planting and requires no particular soil or climate. Hemp is a very leafy plant and produces more oxygen than other crops. It is a dense plant making it difficult for sunlight to penetrate the leaves and reach the ground, freeing it of weeds. It is naturally resistant to pests, so there is no need for herbicides or pesticides.
He noted hemp products are "safer for the environment and consumers than traditional plastics or textiles É can be recycled and are 100 percent biodegradable," plus, since they offer an alternative pulp for paper, "could lead to a reduction in global deforestation."
Noting that ten states, including Kentucky and West Virginia, support industrial hemp production, Young continued: "I believe that hemp needs to be a controlled crop with the appropriate oversight of the Department of Agriculture to ensure that marijuana is not grown with the hemp. I look forward to bringing this issue before the General Assembly in 2014."
On Oct. 25, the Libertarian Party of Indiana issued a news release welcoming Young's contribution to the Libertarian's "long-standing mission to allow local farmers to make money growing hemp, a native crop." The release continued, "If Democrats and Republicans would like to join the wave of the future, they should adopt another long-held Libertarian platform plank and decriminalize marijuana for adults."
The Libertarians also referenced an Oct. 22 posting by Gallup's Art Swift, which opens as follows: "For marijuana advocates, the last 12 months have been a period of unprecedented success as Washington and Colorado became the first states to legalize recreational use of marijuana. And now for the first time, a clear majority of Americans (58%) say the drug should be legalized. This is in sharp contrast to the time Gallup first asked the question in 1969, when only 12% favored legalization."
Gallup stats on the percentage of supporters by age range underscored a sea change of acceptance among progressively younger generations.
The pollsters concluded: "It has been a long path toward majority acceptance of marijuana over the past 44 years, but Americans' support for legalization accelerated as the new millennium began. This acceptance of a substance that most people might have considered forbidden in the late 1960s and 1970s may be attributed to changing social mores and growing social acceptance. The increasing prevalence of medical marijuana as a socially acceptable way to alleviate symptoms of diseases such as arthritis, and as a way to mitigate side effects of chemotherapy, may have also contributed to Americans' growing support."
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Posted by Brian Kelly B Bizzle on 10/26/2013 at 7:19 AM
By all means legalize pot but let's make sure gay marriage is still illegal
Posted by The Total Truth on 10/26/2013 at 8:24 PM
You can't keep your prisons full if you legalize weed. Not going to happen.
Privatization at it's best.
Privatization at it's best.
Posted by JNo on 10/27/2013 at 12:57 PM
First and Foremost: "Hemp cannot physically be used as a drug". - Rep. Jared Polis, CO
Second: Hemp Seed, Hemp Oil, Hemp Fiber and ALL products from the Hemp Plant are legal in the United States.
(We just can't grow the plant because Barney Fife and Andy Griffith make so much money off fighting plants, asset forfeiture, fines etc, that now they are too lazy to fight real crime.)
Third: I saved my life eating Hemp Seed because it contains ALL Amino Acids of Human DNA, and 22% ALBUMEN. Human Plasma is 65% ALBUMEN. So eating Hemp Seed is like eating Human DNA & Human Plasma as your source of nutrition.
Fourth: Orincon Cameras detect the difference between Hemp & Marijuana plants from 5,000 ft in the Air, or 100s of Yards away on the ground.
http://www.votehemp.com/PDF/VHR/VH_Report_FINAL.pdf
Read page three, Gov. Louie B Nunn, KY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Orincon
Think images of the Boston Bomber in the boat.
PS: How many drug arrests took place in Indianapolis while the 9 (nine) home invasions took place the last 2 weeks.
PPS: How many more home invasions will we have while the Keystone Cops are out waging war on HARMLESS plants, and Plant Medicine.
Fight Crime, Not Plants.
Second: Hemp Seed, Hemp Oil, Hemp Fiber and ALL products from the Hemp Plant are legal in the United States.
(We just can't grow the plant because Barney Fife and Andy Griffith make so much money off fighting plants, asset forfeiture, fines etc, that now they are too lazy to fight real crime.)
Third: I saved my life eating Hemp Seed because it contains ALL Amino Acids of Human DNA, and 22% ALBUMEN. Human Plasma is 65% ALBUMEN. So eating Hemp Seed is like eating Human DNA & Human Plasma as your source of nutrition.
Fourth: Orincon Cameras detect the difference between Hemp & Marijuana plants from 5,000 ft in the Air, or 100s of Yards away on the ground.
http://www.votehemp.com/PDF/VHR/VH_Report_FINAL.pdf
Read page three, Gov. Louie B Nunn, KY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_Orincon
Think images of the Boston Bomber in the boat.
PS: How many drug arrests took place in Indianapolis while the 9 (nine) home invasions took place the last 2 weeks.
PPS: How many more home invasions will we have while the Keystone Cops are out waging war on HARMLESS plants, and Plant Medicine.
Fight Crime, Not Plants.
Posted by Hemp Share on 11/05/2013 at 7:53 AM
The SOLUTION is:
Remove Adult Prohibition - Require a Prescription for Minors to Decarboxylate THCA into THC
If this doesn't make sense to you. Do the research until it does.
NOTE: There is no THC in the Cannabis, nor Hemp plant. If the chemical process of Decarboxylation does not take place, neither of these plants contains THC.
Possession of Marijuana is a 1984 or "Big Brother" crime. You are being arrested because you are suspected of the "Intent to Decarboxylate THCA into THC".
This is why they had to modify the Schedule of Controlled Substances to read "Cannabinoid(s)" in plural form rather than the previous "THC" or "Marijuana" historical entries.
So to recap, there is NO THC in Cannabis, nor Hemp. So, what is it they are protecting you from?
Intent?
Remove Adult Prohibition - Require a Prescription for Minors to Decarboxylate THCA into THC
If this doesn't make sense to you. Do the research until it does.
NOTE: There is no THC in the Cannabis, nor Hemp plant. If the chemical process of Decarboxylation does not take place, neither of these plants contains THC.
Possession of Marijuana is a 1984 or "Big Brother" crime. You are being arrested because you are suspected of the "Intent to Decarboxylate THCA into THC".
This is why they had to modify the Schedule of Controlled Substances to read "Cannabinoid(s)" in plural form rather than the previous "THC" or "Marijuana" historical entries.
So to recap, there is NO THC in Cannabis, nor Hemp. So, what is it they are protecting you from?
Intent?
Posted by Hemp Share on 11/05/2013 at 8:01 AM
Let it be free to smoke why use prison to be used for someone that got a lil marijuana come on I reather see rapist in prison or let them guys man made DRUGS Little marijuana NEVER HURTS ANYONE IT CANT KILL U LIKE Alcohol KILLS ALL THE TIME IF NOT THERE SELF SOMEONE ELSE WHILE DRIVING UNDER Influence of alcohol COME ON PEOPLE LETS FACE Reality ON THIS MATTER U ALL THAT AGAINST Marijuana CAN SUCK MY D???
Posted by Bruce Wegford on 11/11/2013 at 11:45 PM 
