HEMP WARS

To the editor:

I wonder if DEAland's war on hemp is based, at least in part, on the fear
that popularizing hemp products could produce many false-positive drug
tests thereby jeopardizing one of the many large (multi-billion dollar)
industries whose existance depends on DEAland's drug war.

Maybe the corrupt politicians and media are required to adhere to the party
line of prohibition because law enforcement, customs, the prison and
military industrial complex, the drug testing industry, the INS, the CIA,
the FBI, the DEA, the politicians themselves, et al, can't live without the
budget justification, not to mention the invisible profits, bribery,
corruption, and forfeiture benefits that prohibition affords them. The
drug war also promotes, justifies, and perpetuates racist enforcement
policies and is diminishing many freedoms and liberties that are supposed
to be inalienable according to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Myron Von Hollingsworth Fort Worth