{"id":528,"date":"2012-08-05T08:08:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T08:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/?p=19430"},"modified":"2012-08-05T08:08:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T08:08:45","slug":"love-is-a-complicated-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/love-is-a-complicated-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is A Complicated Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/love-is-a-complicated-matter\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-is-complicated.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"love is complicated\" title=\"love is complicated\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19431\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/love-is-a-complicated-matter\/attachment\/love-is-complicated\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19431\" title=\"love is complicated\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-is-complicated-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/can-hemp-help-repair-fractured-relationship-between-obama-and-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">marijuana.net<\/a> ran a story about President Obama and his roller coaster relationship with cannabis in an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/can-hemp-help-repair-fractured-relationship-between-obama-and-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCan Hemp Repair Fractured Relationship Between Obama and Marijuana?\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 In it we detailed a classic American love story that is currently fractured and in pieces.\u00a0 The president\u2019s re-election campaign was selling scarves made of hemp, so we started to wonder if this was the first step to the president and marijuana getting on speaking terms again.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to most all romantic problems, the issue can get very complex.\u00a0 Normally marijuana.net does not get into the \u201cshe said\/he said\u201d but we cannot resist here.\u00a0 Last week the move appeared to be an attempt to mend the fences but we have found out a new twist.\u00a0 Critics were upset with President Obama because the hemp used for the scarves has to be imported from China.\u00a0 Americans are still not allowed to grow industrial hemp despite all of its known uses and quality.\u00a0 The president has the ability to push to legalize hemp, instead, he choose to keep it in the dark.\u00a0 This move hurts desperate American farmers who could benefit tremendously from a newly legal hemp market.<\/p>\n<p>The president and other elected officials often say \u201cwhat kind of message does this send to our children\u201d when describing hemp, medical marijuana, or cannabis legalization.\u00a0 However we must ask what kind of message does it send to our children that a benign wonder fiber that could jump start the economy has been criminalized? \u00a0Even further what kind of message do we send when we say it is ok for China to produce and export hemp to us, but it is not appropriate for the United States to create their own hemp.\u00a0 What kind of message does it send to ignore our rich hemp history, (which includes an order by none other than General George Washington to grow hemp fiber for the Revolutionary War) especially in Kentucky.\u00a0 It always seems that the American government looks to other nations when they need their dirty work done.<\/p>\n<p>The White House had to or should have been well aware of the critical reaction to this story.\u00a0 How could they think they would get away with acknowledging hemp\u2019s usefulness and diverting the profits toward a re-election campaign but keeping it illegal on U.S. soil?\u00a0 The only theory we have is that the president was trying to antagonize his former love marijuana.\u00a0 Instead of granting her legal status he decided to take her cousin out on a date.\u00a0 Being a gentleman is not a prerequisite for the United States presidency, but the leader of the free world should know better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"400\" height=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-is-complicated.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"love is complicated\" title=\"love is complicated\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-19431\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/love-is-a-complicated-matter\/attachment\/love-is-complicated\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-19431\" title=\"love is complicated\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/love-is-complicated-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Last week <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/can-hemp-help-repair-fractured-relationship-between-obama-and-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">marijuana.net<\/a> ran a story about President Obama and his roller coaster relationship with cannabis in an article titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marijuana.net\/news-and-articles\/can-hemp-help-repair-fractured-relationship-between-obama-and-marijuana\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cCan Hemp Repair Fractured Relationship Between Obama and Marijuana?\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 In it we detailed a classic American love story that is currently fractured and in pieces.\u00a0 The president\u2019s re-election campaign was selling scarves made of hemp, so we started to wonder if this was the first step to the president and marijuana getting on speaking terms again.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to most all romantic problems, the issue can get very complex.\u00a0 Normally marijuana.net does not get into the \u201cshe said\/he said\u201d but we cannot resist here.\u00a0 Last week the move appeared to be an attempt to mend the fences but we have found out a new twist.\u00a0 Critics were upset with President Obama because the hemp used for the scarves has to be imported from China.\u00a0 Americans are still not allowed to grow industrial hemp despite all of its known uses and quality.\u00a0 The president has the ability to push to legalize hemp, instead, he choose to keep it in the dark.\u00a0 This move hurts desperate American farmers who could benefit tremendously from a newly legal hemp market.<\/p>\n<p>The president and other elected officials often say \u201cwhat kind of message does this send to our children\u201d when describing hemp, medical marijuana, or cannabis legalization.\u00a0 However we must ask what kind of message does it send to our children that a benign wonder fiber that could jump start the economy has been criminalized? \u00a0Even further what kind of message do we send when we say it is ok for China to produce and export hemp to us, but it is not appropriate for the United States to create their own hemp.\u00a0 What kind of message does it send to ignore our rich hemp history, (which includes an order by none other than General George Washington to grow hemp fiber for the Revolutionary War) especially in Kentucky.\u00a0 It always seems that the American government looks to other nations when they need their dirty work done.<\/p>\n<p>The White House had to or should have been well aware of the critical reaction to this story.\u00a0 How could they think they would get away with acknowledging hemp\u2019s usefulness and diverting the profits toward a re-election campaign but keeping it illegal on U.S. soil?\u00a0 The only theory we have is that the president was trying to antagonize his former love marijuana.\u00a0 Instead of granting her legal status he decided to take her cousin out on a date.\u00a0 Being a gentleman is not a prerequisite for the United States presidency, but the leader of the free world should know better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,277,278,279,55,280,151,56,9,51,70,281,282,1,3,61],"tags":[2632,2855,2856,2857,2635,2858,2729,2636,2631,5,2859,2860,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}