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Hemp: the Emperor of the Plant KingdomSubmitted by Bill St. Clair on Fri, 2003-01-31 03:26.
by Bill St. Clair
[a letter I wrote to the Albany Times Union on 21 May, 2001. They didn't print it] My compliments on your May 20 editorial reprimanding the Supreme Court on their medical marijuana ruling. Marijuana is the best medicine currently known for controlling the nausea caused by AIDS drugs and chemotherapy. It and its non-psychoactive cousin, industrial hemp, have a host of other uses: food, medicine, paper, fabric, building material, fuel, and the list goes on (direct your web browser to www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom). Forbidding those uses is both stupid and criminal. But the bottom line is this. My body is my property. The state has no business saying anything whatsoever about what I may or may not ingest. Bill St. Clair bill@billstclair.com
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BlogrollFirearm NewsQuotesEvery man, woman, and responsible child has an unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything -- any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission. -- L. Neil Smith Reread that pesky first clause of the Second Amendment. It doesn't say what any of us thought it said. What it says is that infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms is treason. What else do you call an act that endangers "the security of a free state"? And if it's treason, then it's punishable by death. I suggest due process, speedy trials, and public hangings. -- L. Neil Smith Based on 253 journal articles, 99 books, 43 government publications, and some of its own empirical work, the panel couldn't identify a single gun control regulation that reduced violent crime, suicide or accidents. -- John Lott, commenting on the National Academy of Sciences report (PDF) on gun control laws Zero Aggression Principle ("Zap") "A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim." -- L. Neil Smith Formerly called the "Non-Aggression Principle", or "NAP" The state can only survive as long as a majority is programmed to believe that theft isn't wrong if it's called taxation or asset forfeiture or eminent domain, that assault and kidnapping isn't wrong if it's called arrest, that mass murder isn't wrong if it's called war. -- Bill St. Clair TTLB |
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