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Vice Presidential Showdown Being Held in Hemp Country

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The political world has been buzzing since last week’s presidential debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama.  Most analysts and viewers felt Mr. Romney won the debate and that the President seemed distant and unmotivated.  The president has vowed to turn up the intensity next week as the polls have shifted toward Romney a bit.  However before next week’s showdown we will watch the right hand men of the two candidates go into political battle.

Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan will be in Danville Kentucky for their debate.  While this may not seem significant for some, Kentucky is hemp country both in a historical sense and in a modern sense.  Kentucky lawmakers, one of them being the widely known Rand Paul, have been fighting to reform hemp laws, which if possible, make even less sense than our marijuana laws.  Our politicians are the quickest to include American flags on their lapelle but often the slowest to remember exactly what the stars and stripes stand for.  America’s history on hemp will forever be intertwined as George Washington even required farmers to grow the plant in order to help during the revolutionary war.

Irrational and overblown fears of marijuana during the turn of the 20th century into the 1930s lead to lawmakers also outlawing hemp.  The fact that it is virtually impossible to get “stoned” from this part of the marijuana plant would not serve as a deterrent for dogmatic lawmakers.  Hemp stalks include a fraction of 1% of THC, where most strains of marijuana can range from 10-25% THC.  As more is being uncovered about hemp’s versatility, even politicians who love reminiscing in the good old days of anti science are forced to reconsider their opposition.

The two vice presidential candidates will probably stick close to the talking points of their runningmates/bosses.  Even as Joe Biden is known for abandoning the script, we do not feel he will be fielding questions on marijuana and hemp, even though much of the debate will revolve around recycled ideas as to how we get America back to work.  If only each debate required a local segment, where the issues impacting the region where the debate is being held were discussed.  If that were the case then last week we may have heard President Obama and Governor Romney articulate their position on compassion and relief while this week we would be treated to Paul Ryan and Joe Biden telling us how they would jumpstart hemp farming, create jobs, and educate Americans about the wonder fiber.

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