While the big poluting industries are on their knee's,

[billrealph]

:D I wish to bring to your attention the issue of overturning the currant law on growing the natural hemp plant, as a viable crop for the farming industry + for the economy as a whole; benefiting many divers industries + products all of which can be sort back to the natural hemp plant and now at this point in time (like in the past ) exports + imports aren’t viable to Australia’s economical + population survival; we need a crop that can be produced in the masses, that is so very divers in its secondary form it would + could stabilize the consumers needs for products + survival, not to mention animal produce + environmental good the natural hemp plant does for the soil alone... Please consider the facts of this natural plant as a crop that has in the past saved countries world wide and America and most countries economies were built from the natural hemp plant and would produce 99% of all domestic needs, with no carbon footprint. We are a mass population, we haven't the land for individual self survival, we need this form of industry, after all morals aren’t going to save the hungry and the time to act is now to have a clean and safe future, please as a individual or organisation help save our planet.
More information on the benefits and history of natural hemp.

[Trigcove]

You've got my full support on this one.

[scratcho]

The gov of Oregon is due to sign a bill momentarily legalizing industrial hemp here.Problem is ,of course,the feds still have it schedule 1.I have a friend in Cal that is a farmer and has been agitating some of the legislators there to pass a law so that he can grow hemp for bio-diesel.It's only a matter of time,I guess.

[ThePoetSappho]

its not just the fact that its considered a "drug"; its what it could entail for the economy and a huge number of corporations.
The list is nearly limitless on what hemp can make and replace.
paper
food
oil
clothes
cars
etc.
just to name a few.
Do you realize how many companies would go under?

[scratcho]

Maybe the companies you think might go under could make their products from hemp instead of what they presently use.

[Trigcove]

I would endorse making food and cigarettes out of hemp.
Oh wait, we already did that...
I would endorse almost anything else made out of hemp, including the bodies of cargo vans. Dave's not here, man!

Seriously, Hemp is green, it's clean, and it's cheap. What's the down side, again? Oh yeah, it makes people happy. Can't have any of that.