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...could help replace tobacco and maybe save their farms, they aren't promoting any stoner foolishness. True, the crop they hope to grow is known to botanists as Cannabis sativa, but different races within that species can have widely varying amounts of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the merrymaking chemical in pot. Marijuana will typically have anywhere from 3% to 20% THC. Hemp is bred to contain less than 1%. You could roll and smoke every leaf on a 15-ft. hemp plant and gain little more than a hacking cough...
...that U.S. drug laws clearly ban THC--any THC. The court's decision will turn on the historically murky question of whether Congress intended hemp to be part of those laws. Some antidrug groups-- including, most stridently, the Family Research Council--believe allowing hemp foods would send a pro-marijuana message...
Ashcroft insists that he is a strong advocate for states’ rights but feels that there are circumstances when federal policy should prevail. One such circumstance would be where the actions in one state interfere with the actions of another state. For example, if the sale of marijuana were legal in Oregon, it would undermine the other states’ efforts to reduce drug trafficking. But the Death with Dignity Act has not attracted people from other states—the law allows lethal prescriptions to be given only to patients who are residents of Oregon...
...drank a beer on the first day of Ramadan, decided to go vegetarian this semester. “I just want to cleanse my body and mind,” Mackey said. After the first day of class, he smoked an entire eighth of an ounce of marijuana, ate three plates of boneless spareribs from the Kong and passed out in a pool of pork juices. “Allah doesn’t really see everything, right?” he said...
Dalla Santa admitted he received $1,000 and a quarter-pound of marijuana for assisting his brother-in-law. Dalla Santa added that he was personally involved in “two to three prior shipments,” according to the affidavit...