It's illegal primarily because two very powerful industries don't want it legal: pharmaceuticals, because it's just great medicine, and chemical because hemp is a direct competitor to nylon, which was the driver behind the original laws against marijuana.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Robert Munn <[email protected]> wrote: > The funny thing is that marijuana was made illegal during a fabricated panic > about it causing potentially psychotic reactions in people who used it. > Today, on the market in the United States, you can be prescribed medications > that actually do have the potential to create psychotic reactions in some > patients - anti-depressants. Yet those drugs remain legal while marijuana > remains - for the most part - illegal. That makes absolutely no sense to me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:287251 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
