Legalize Marijuana! Now! Do It!
The Trouble With America is that possession of marijuana is illegal.
I'll preface by saying this: I do not smoke marijuana. I don't think smoking marijuana is a good way to spend one's time or a good way to live one's life; however, I do not shun people or think less of them for using it.
That being said, I feel like it is morally and ethically disgraceful to outlaw possession of marijuana. The reason I think this is because a product from the marijuana plant is hemp. Hemp, in case you weren't a stoner at any time of your life, is the fibrous stalk of the cannabis plant. The hemp component of the plant can be refined to make a number of usable products.
Hemp can produce, cheaper than most other resources, paper, clothing, food (for various animals), fuel, soap, and hundreds of other products. In fact, paper that can be made from hemp is higher quality than tree paper. And you don't have to chop down forests to get it.
Hemp is not illegal to possess. You can have all the hemp you want, legally. The catch is that, since to grow hemp you must possess marijuana, that the growing of hemp is illegal in America and most other developed countries.
So, we miss a golden opportunity to cause less environmental damage than we presently are.
To me, this is unacceptable. We must reduce the impact we are making, and we must begin now. One of my solutions is to legalize marijuana for the purpose of manufacturing hemp. Woo ha.
I'll preface by saying this: I do not smoke marijuana. I don't think smoking marijuana is a good way to spend one's time or a good way to live one's life; however, I do not shun people or think less of them for using it.
That being said, I feel like it is morally and ethically disgraceful to outlaw possession of marijuana. The reason I think this is because a product from the marijuana plant is hemp. Hemp, in case you weren't a stoner at any time of your life, is the fibrous stalk of the cannabis plant. The hemp component of the plant can be refined to make a number of usable products.
Hemp can produce, cheaper than most other resources, paper, clothing, food (for various animals), fuel, soap, and hundreds of other products. In fact, paper that can be made from hemp is higher quality than tree paper. And you don't have to chop down forests to get it.
Hemp is not illegal to possess. You can have all the hemp you want, legally. The catch is that, since to grow hemp you must possess marijuana, that the growing of hemp is illegal in America and most other developed countries.
So, we miss a golden opportunity to cause less environmental damage than we presently are.
To me, this is unacceptable. We must reduce the impact we are making, and we must begin now. One of my solutions is to legalize marijuana for the purpose of manufacturing hemp. Woo ha.
posted by Tim C at 9:24 AM
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