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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Gurgeh: [QB] When trees are cut down for paper, the whole tree is cut down, trunk, branches, leaves. The whole lot is processed later, taking more biological matter from the site. (Although more recent logging machines are able to strip the branches from the trunk). You also get more fibre per unit area from cannabis than trees. They can make paper from cannabis which is just as good as that from trees, AND with a lot less treatment AND it lasts longer because there is less acid in it. The fabric from cannabis is a bit more coarse than cotton, but there are techniques to make it softer. The main benefit is to the environment as the cannabis plant is more resistant to pests and doesn't need as much pesticide. "Environmentally, hemp is a better crop to grow than cotton, especially the way cotton is grown nowadays. In the United States, the cotton crop uses half of the total pesticides. (Yes, you heard right, one half of the pesticides used in the entire U.S. are used on cotton.) Cotton is a soil damaging crop and needs a lot of fertilizer." [QUOTE]Unfortunately, the movement is probably NEVER going to lose that stigma, which is the main reason that nobody takes it seriously.[/QUOTE] Well where [b]I[/b] come from the main reason is that the democracy is more of a gerontocracy, appealing to the older people for votes. So any attempt to legalize it would be political suicide. I admit that people want it legalised so they can smoke (or eat) cannabis without getting into trouble, but let me ask you this. Why [b]should[/b] they get into trouble for smoking it? And I mean thrown-in-prison trouble. Some of you may be inclined to give the answer "because it's illegal, it must be bad", but perhaps you should question the ability of an ageing bureaucrat to decide whether [b]you[/b] can take a relatively harmless drug. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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