FOES OF INDUSTRIAL HEMP NEED TO LEARN FACTS

Dear Editor,

This is in response to the recent "hemp study" article. Joyce Lohrentz
should consider the fact that a person would have to smoke an industrial
hemp cigarette the size of a telephone pole just to get a headache. Hemp
would certainly help our ailing farm economy, and the farmers know that.

Canada already has a huge head start on us, even though several U.S. states
are currently growing hemp test plots. Perhaps Joyce Lohrentz and the
Illinois Drug Education Alliance should learn the facts about industrial
hemp and "educate" the children about actual drugs.

Boyd Holmes
Decatur