Does the term apply to people who do not want drilling in the ANWR?

Does it apply to people who want the US to invest heavily in alternative energy?

Does it apply to people who do not want rBGH in their milk, or fluoride in their water?

Does it apply to people who want the US to legalize the cultivation of industrial hemp, like EVERY OTHER DEVELOPED NATION IN THE WORLD?

What's wrong with fluoride in the water?

Who has legalised the cultivation of legalised hemp?

Although there are a lot of regulations, most developed nations have a commercial hemp crop, except the USA.

New South Wales in Australia has recently approved hemp cultivation.

New direction for hemp - National Rural News - Grains and Cropping - General - Stock & Land

The UK HAS BEEN GROWING COMMMERCIAL HEMP SINCE THE 1990S. Canada has as well. The hemp industry is one of the fastest growing industries in the US, but we have to import all of our hemp, mostly from Canada.

Several states in the US have legalized hemp production, but the FEDGOV abuses it's authority and forbids hemp cultivation. The FEDGOV has NO RIGHT to dictate hemp prohibition to states. Vermont is one of the most recent to legalize hemp cultivation.

Wisconsin Ag Connection - National/World News - Hemp Bill Becomes Law in Vermont

Hemp can be used for thousands of products. According to a 1938 Popular Mechanics story, hemp can be used for 25,000 products.

The seed is the 2nd highest source of protein known to man, 2nd only to soy. The seed has all 21 of the essential oils that the human body needs. Hemp can be used for rope, canvas, paper, clothing, many types of food and beauty products, plastics and many other products.

A RECENT STORY FORM BBC....

BBC NEWS | UK | Northern Ireland | Foyle and West | Hemp catching on with NW farmers

A recent Ohio State student newspaper stated.........

Adam Eidinger, a spokesman for the group Vote Hemp in Bedford, Mass., said he estimated the current market for hemp products at more than $275 million annually and increasing.

According to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report, however, the market for hemp in the U.S. will remain small because of hemp's competition with other more-established raw materials and manufacturing practices.

Today much of the hemp sold in the U.S. is imported from Canada, which in 1998 legalized the cultivation of Cannabis sativa with less than one percent THC.

According to the Hemp Industries Association, the U.S. is the only industrialized nation not to permit the production of hemp.

Line between hemp and marijuana still blurry to U.S. - Arts

While states in the US beg the FEDGOV for permission to engage in hemp studies and trials, the 275 million dollar a year hemp industry continue to grow.

We have been talking about HEMP studies for decades. We don't need anymore studies. We need legalization of hemp cultivation, just like in the UK, Australia, Canada, and other countries.

A USA Today article from 2005....

Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Montana and West Virginia also have passed hemp-farming bills.

The DEA says allowing farmers to grow hemp in the USA would undermine the war on drugs. It says marijuana growers would be able to camouflage their crop with similar-looking hemp plants, and that DEA agents would have difficulty quickly telling the difference.

"Let's not be naïve," says Tom Riley of the White House Office on National Drug Control Policy. "The pro-dope people have been pushing hemp for 20 years because they know that if they can have hemp fields, then they can have marijuana fields. It's ... stoner logic."

USATODAY.com - 'Industrial' hemp support takes root

THIS ARGUMENT from the DEA is truly "stoner logic." What is the DEA smoking, since no pot grower would ever mix marijuana plants with hemp, since they cross pollinate and ruin the marijuana.

This is common sense to everyone, except the morons at the DEA.

Marijuana is the number one cash crop in the US. According to the last NIDA survey, more high school seniors said they could get pot easier than beer, or cigarettes. So someone please tell me, how could making hemp legal significantly change the ease in which marijuana is obtained in the US?

DEA=MORONS.

As to fluoride, the former president of the Canadian Dental Association supported water fluoridation his entire career, until he was convinced by a friend to do his "own research." Now he has spoken out against water fluoridation.

Dr. Hardy Limeback: Why I am now officially opposed to adding fluoride to drinking water

The scientists union at the FDA is also against water fluoridation.

May 1, 1999
WHY EPA'S HEADQUARTERS UNION OF
SCIENTISTS OPPOSES FLUORIDATION

Why U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scientists oppose fluoridation

One of the leading experts in New Zealand was also a strong supporter of water fluoridation, until he researched the numbers on request of the government. He changed his mind on water fluoridation as well.

Why I changed my mind about water fluoridation

50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation
Updated April 12, 2004

by Paul Connett, PhD
Professor of Chemistry
St. Lawrence University

50 Reasons to Oppose Fluoridation

New York - Over 1,100 dentists, physicians, scientists, academics and environmentalists urge Congress to stop water fluoridation until Congressional hearings are conducted. They cite new scientific evidence that fluoridation, long promoted to fight tooth decay, is ineffective and has serious health risks.

Professionals Urge End to Water Fluoridation : NewsLI.com - Long Island News, News Long Island

8.1 years. What a ridiculous site.

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Lol! Maybe it's my off sense of humour, but I find this site basically hilarious.

I should live to age 22. Hah. That means I have two years left, whereas most of you are already in the negatives.

These are always hard for me though, because my lifestyle/living situation changes dramatically 2-3 times a year. Like... at home it's one thing, at school it's another, and then this summer while I'm working in Ecuador for an alternative energy NGO it'll be something completely different.

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If somebody working for an alternative energy outfit only scores a 22, I think they need to readjust their calculation parameters.

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20?!

I got 15 years!

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I got 3.3. years, looks like others did a lot better but still, i'm proud to know i'm destroying the environment...

I'm not really sure how that happened. With all the flying, me driving an SUV, and whatnot, it doesn't make sense. I did get a business call toward the end of it, and kind of spaced out, so I might have answered something wrong.

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Unfortunately it's the WACKOS that we HEAR from.

Those of us that care about the environment and haven't allowed ourselves to smoke too much pot and become a rip roaring lunaticidiot are largely ignored. Or called names. - Since we WON'T consider damaging an SUV, or throwing paint on a fur coat, or living in a tree.

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The vocal minority always seems to get more of the spotlight.


Unfortunately, the socialists have hijacked the environmental agenda and are trying to use it to further a socialist agenda.

3.7 Years for me. I feel like such a capitalist

Sorry to pick your post Ash, your kind of response was just one of many, actually most, of the posts.

OH MY GOD Do people have any idea how most people in the world live!
Over 2.2 Billion people in India and China alone, most who live in a flat the size of a bedroom or a tiny 2 room house, power blackout after a set hour each night, a couple of cheap appliances and a small car if they're lucky, but usually a scooter or a bike.

Compared to your average family with 2 cars or SUV's subject to one of the worst fuel efficiency standards in the first world, 2 or 3 TV's, heating, maybe air con, several appliances, computers, the masses of manufactured things that fill our house, our shops we go to, our businesses we use and work at, all use energy in massive amounts compared to theirs and there's heaps of things more we use every day that use power.

And we have the audacity to tell them that we won't start to do something about the problem that we've contributed vastly more to that any other nation unless they do first. While China is about to overtake us as worst polluter you have to consider that they are powering 4 times as many people as we are.

Woo Hoo! I'm a dead man walking. I should have died at age 20. What a ridiculous website.

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How did ya'll manage to get into double digits?