This is the whole point of the thread. It should be legal. Certain elements of the government more than others and certain individuals more than others are making sure this doesn't happen.
Let me guess they meet in a dark room with black robes and plot against the development of hemp.
Regarding breeding back THC, do you have any idea how many generations it would take to do this? Do you know anything about drug marijuana and how it is farmed vs. hemp? My gosh.....
My gosh, my gosh...sigh...sigh...this certainly makes me look mature. Apparently I know more than you do about the length of plant generations and botany.
It would be time consuming...
Yet not impossible.
...and stupid to "breed back" THC levels. Just grow drug strains.
Not really if you could produce a marijuana substitute with the same active ingredient...unregulated and 100% legal.
The method of cultivation, harvest, and market are totally different. It is a red herring to throw the "but they could make it into drugs somehow" argument.
No the actual red herring is bringing up "cultivation, harvest, and market.." as if that would somehow effect the outcome. Also it is an explanation of why your "hemp free market" can never happen as long as marijuana is illegal and while we have a USDA for that matter.
It just doesn't fly biologically, or agriculturally.
Write it as much as you want, but that doesn't make it true to anyone who has taken even a passing glance at such cutting edge research as that of Gregor Johann Mendel.
No, it hasn't.
1. because you have not refuted the (just for one) DEAs interest in keeping hemp illegal due to the amount of funds it receives for the drug war.
How much money does the DEA make from blocking Hemp imports? Seriously, how often do you see large busts of hemp shipments coming in from Canada. Please...this is your most tired argument.
2. There are no free hemp markets. They are all regulated to the point that it financially interferes with the advancement of the product.
There are no free markets..PERIOD. Specifically there are
no free agricultural markets. They are all regulated, including the type of seeds that can be used, the product that can be sold, and who it can be sold to. USDA is an example of a regulatory body over all food in the United States.
3. No one said it was going to revolutionize an economy (at least not me). All I have stated is that it is a quality product that is underutilized and that given the proper free market conditions a farmer, so inclined, could (and should be able to) make money growing hemp.
Well actually you came into this thread lecturing us about how we responded to the original poster who claimed hemp would revolutionize the world. As far as farming hemp...no one here is saying no...it just won't be revolutionary.
See above. This is a red herring argument given the agricultural differences.
See above as to why you are wrong, and why science needs to become your friend.
Well, that part is regulated in canada with the fact that farmers can't use their own seed and so they cannot breed the thc back into it, but you clearly show a lack of knowledge of how long this would take. How completely different and OBVIOUSLY (you know, to the man) the difference is and how stupid it would be considering that there are literally thousands of strains available now. But they don't look anything like hemp. And hemp on steroids has no chance to compete with real drug marijuana.
First every plant is going to come under regulation if you wish to grow it commercially, and so blaming the lack of technological development based on that is false. HENCE...your argument to that effect is debunked.
That would be fine, but there should be no need to license the farmer, nor deny him the right to use his own seeds. I'm fine with testing the final fiber for THC, although....it would sort of be pointless. No one smoke hemp fiber. No one smokes marijuana fiber. That just isn't how it works.
Oh gorsh you reckon that if'n you can't smoke thems fibers that marijuana ain't bein' smoke at all. Now you are trying to be really obtuse, you know that right?
But never mind, because what you want is the 100% complete deregulation of all agriculture in the United States, and no thank you. Oh also you effectively contradicted yourself in that above paragraph, but I'll let you figure out how...but be honest because I will quote it back to you later if you aren't.
