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Opioid epidemic shares chilling similarities with the past

While declaring the opioid crisis a national public health emergency Thursday, President Donald Trump said: “Nobody has seen anything like what’s going on now.”

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Hemp for Victory!

hemp for victory

In 1943 the US was embroiled in World War II.  The Japanese had been invading islands in the Pacific, going after the Philippines.  Their fleet had cut off access to Manila and many supplies that the US war effort relied upon.  One of those supplies was hemp.  Hemp was widely used by the US Navy.  But, thanks to the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, Cannabis was no longer legal to grow on domestic soil.  Once we were cut off from those precious hemp supplies, the government realized that they needed to supply their own hemp.  Afterward the Department of Agriculture put together a piece of wartime propaganda called “Hemp for Victory.”  This short film was distributed and shown to American farmers as an instructional guide for growing and preparing cannabis crops for industrial use.

“Hemp For Victory” outlines the proper way to pick seeds, and proper soil types for optimum growing conditions.  It then goes on to discuss harvesting techniques and how it gets turned from a plant into the many items the Navy uses.  In 1942 the US harvested 36,000 acres of hemp and for 1943, with the help of some patriotic farmers, they were looking to yield upwards of 50,000.  They needed it for the war effort; a battleship required 34,000 feet of hemp rope for mooring lines, tows, anchor lines, tackle and gear.  The army used hemp for parachute webbing, light duty fire hoses, threads in shoes and clothing, twine and more.  Of course to plant all these crops, American farmers needed a special permit from the Internal Revenue Service, or else they would be criminals, instead of patriotic planters.

It’s amazing how the US government is willing to turn a blind eye against their own laws, when it suits their purposes.  Marijuana the medical herb is the scion of this plant yet it was completely banned.  Suddenly America needed it again and it was legal for a special few to grow it.  However, after the war the film was mothballed and the official word from the USDA was that it did not exist.  The government denied its existence until two copies of it surfaced and were donated to the Library of Congress in May 1989, by Mia Farrow, Carl Packard and Jack Herer.  On one hand marijuana is evil, but on the other it is the most useful plants Americans needed to win the war.

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Dispensary Closings bring Unpredicted Bill for Metropolitan areas

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Depriving for political attention, California legislators have purchased an excessive amount of from the legislative menu and today are weary to switch within the check and face the outstanding balance.  Economic weight problems is yet another common pandemic but it’s unlikely Morgan Spurlock, alone, can deal with this.

When metropolitan areas lately began to alter their approach toward marijuana shops, everything seemed great within the head lines.  What many city government authorities are actually finding is the fact that financial aspects is really an intricate problem.  Whether it weren’t then there could have been miracle pills for that economy years back.  Very frequently we have seen legislation passed that considers nothing when it comes to how a lot of factors are connected within our free market economy.  The town of Garden Grove is familiar with a difficult lesson in impulse politics.  Costs were mounting a lot for that marijuana dispensary violations (roughlyTwo Hundred Dollars,000 per situation) these were defending that Garden Grove abandoned enforcing its prohibit.  Rather, Garden Grove made the decision to want that shops register using the city.  Possibly this registration system must have been utilize initially because this is yet another example inside a lengthy line that helps guide you regulation is much better than turning our backs and throwing out the important thing.

The disadvantages of America’s old business design were introduced to the attention in 2008.  The ” new world ” economy doesn’t leave room for billions to become wasted each year on marijuana enforcement also it most definitely cannot sustain laws and regulations which are passed with no consideration for that stress on citizen dollars.  Garden Grove is simply one city facing this issue so I must be obvious that I don’t desire to pick in it particularly, however, they assist to focus on the whole situation.  A few of the blame is around the public too.  It might be time for you to start demanding our political figures display a bit more financial savvy.  Legislative strategy must be not only a mule going after a 1 problem carrot before its face.

The usual understanding states that it’s not smart to visit food shopping before eating anything.  We have to move back, and comfortably think out our choices.  Possibly term limits in congress should be thought about to ensure that the want to make a job from Capital Hill won’t over-shadow the significance of well considered legal choices.  Our country is within a vulnerable condition and may use every available dollar.  The majority of our infrastructure was built around the economic momentum that adopted The Second World War and that we frantically have to rebuild.   The the next time the U . s . States includes a menu before it hopefully we think about a salad as our first course and move ahead after that.

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