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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: asdf2231 on January 06, 2009, 09:17:45 PM
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Mother Of Four (977 posts) Tue Jan-06-09 07:14 AM
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I am so proud of my son, he wrote his senior paper about HEMP!
Advertisements [?] We just printed it out and placed it with the graphs/images in the document protector.
Earlier this year, I had to argue with his teacher to allow the subject matter, she was convinced that the idea was of a "pot head" and that it was innapropriate.
Needless to say she was "Shocked and appalled" that the son of a police officer would be an activist for Hemp usage.
(Waggle eyebrows) I told her "Hrm, don't judge a book by the badge it wears. You'd be surprised."
She allowed it, I think more from curiosity than anything else.
Here it is. Please be proud with me!
A crappy term paper about how backwards we all are snipped for breviety.
cboy4 (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-06-09 07:33 AM
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3. You should be proud....every time I feel down about something,
I think about our younger generations, and suddenly I realize there's hope to come.
Good job with the son-raising mom!
AnOhioan (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-06-09 07:44 AM
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5. Excellent paper...kudos to him...
and you for raising a person who uses critical thinking and just doesn't accept the conventional widsom as gospel.
MagickMuffin (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-06-09 07:59 AM
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6. I will share in your proud moment
Edited on Tue Jan-06-09 08:00 AM by MagickMuffin
I have written the Obama transition team about this very topic. It would be extremely stupid to keep this plant illegal, because of our governments continued ignorance concerning hemp.
If hemp were allowed to become a cash crop, even if it were to be smoke the only effects you would experience is a severe headache.
Kudos to your son, and for your persistence to educating his teacher. I just hope she learns something on this subject matter. Your son did a excellent job on the differences, perhaps she will want to learn more about hemp. Your son would receive an A+ if I were his teacher.
JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-06-09 08:25 AM
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8. Fellow mom here, rejoicing with you!
Bravo! Smart kid you got there and you obviously raised him right!
Julie
grannylib (1000+ posts) Tue Jan-06-09 08:50 AM
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9. I'm proud with you! Good job!
The short-sightedness of our government on this (and so many other issues) is appalling...
What's that thing again about being...umm...COMPETITIVE in a global market????
Sheesh.
Mother Of Four (977 posts) Tue Jan-06-09 12:44 PM
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16. Saving the link,
He'll be very interested in that, thank you.
He really is an activist about usages.
When he was writing the paper, he came to me and said (I'm a medical tech) "Mama...They don't even allow this plant to be used to assist hunger in AIDS patients, or ease treatment in cancer patients." I told him that I knew, and he was preaching to the choir. For the record, when I was on the back of the truck I would look at my patients and say "Listen, I'm not the cops. I'm not going to report you for anything you've decided to take. I just need to know, so that I don't kill you with the wrong medicine." I would keep my word on it also. I'm not going to condemn a woman who's lost her hair, and is throwing up from her shoes for wanting some relief. Thats just plain cruel.
She allowed the argument for Hemp only, sadly enough. He could have written another 5 full pages on the medicinal uses of THC, along with overpopulation of our jails. He has first hand knowledge from his dad (PD officer) about how many resources are wasted on this.
Quote from my son "Mama...Alchohol is MUCH more damaging, and addictive. Same with cigarettes. But they allow those, you know why? Because they make money off of it in taxes...that's why."
Love love love my boy.
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Why am I not surprised.
Isn't she the one that had to apply for welfare ?
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Only at the DUmp will you hear folks cheering on a parent for their kid writing a paper defending the usage of pot :whatever:
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Only at the DUmp will you hear folks cheering on a parent for their kid writing a paper defending the usage of pot :whatever:
You're back! :hyper:
:-*
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Only at the DUmp will you hear folks cheering on a parent for their kid writing a paper defending the usage of pot :whatever:
Hemp not pot. May be from the same family of plants but hemp doesn't have the THC levels of more common marijuana. There are a few states where farmers are registered to grow it. It's used to make bags,shirts and blankets etc etc. Sort of a wool/cotton replacement.
Myth: Smoking industrial hemp gets a person high.
Reality: The THC levels in industrial hemp are so low that no one could get high from smoking it. Moreover, hemp contains a relatively high percentage of another cannabinoid, CBD, that actually blocks the marijuana high. Hemp, it turns out, is not only not marijuana; it could be called "antimarijuana."
http://www.gametec.com/hemp/hemp.mj.htmlhttp://www.gametec.com/hemp/hemp.mj.html
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Hemp not pot. May be from the same family of plants but hemp doesn't have the THC levels of more common marijuana. There are a few states where farmers are registered to grow it. It's used to make bags,shirts and blankets etc etc. Sort of a wool/cotton replacement.
Maybe I should have read the paper the kid wrote :rotf:
I just assumed, and well, my ignorance is glistening now :loser:
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You're back! :hyper:
:-*
Hey, Chris :cheersmate:
I really should be sleeping right about now, but here I'm is :-)
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Hey, Chris :cheersmate:
I really should be sleeping right about now, but here I'm is :-)
I should be asleep, too. Just one more post, I promise.
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Maybe I should have read the paper the kid wrote :rotf:
I just assumed, and well, my ignorance is glistening now :loser:
More than likely most the dummies are cheering on the OP because they think Hemp is pot. :cheersmate:
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More than likely most the dummies are cheering on the OP because they think Hemp is pot. :cheersmate:
Most likely.........chances are, so did the kid who wrote the paper.
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More than likely most the dummies are cheering on the OP because they think Hemp is pot. :cheersmate:
Most of the dopehead DUmmies are probably that stupid. But the ones in the know also know that from the air, the two look alike and show up as the same on infrared........and legalizing hemp will give them a chance, just a chance, to grow the "good stuff" somewhere among it.
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A senior in high school calls his mother "mama"????? Oh brother.. :mental:
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A senior in high school calls his mother "mama"????? Oh brother.. :mental:
According to how you pronounce that "mama". I called my mother mama until she died. And when I speck of her today, it's still mama......pronounced Mom-ma. It's more or less a southern thing, I think.
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According to how you pronounce that "mama". I called my mother mama until she died. And when I speck of her today, it's still mama......pronounced Mom-ma. It's more or less a southern thing, I think.
Nuff said....