A MELEE IN EVERY POT

The election was pretty much a disaster. I'm not talking about the
donkeys and the elephants (I'm a Green), who are going to gridlock in
short order and muck things up.

It is, instead, the failure of Proposition 19 in California that is
discouraging.

I don't care about pot. People have been getting high as long as there
have been people and will as long as there are. Instead, sadly, we
will not look at industrial hemp for another election cycle.

Locally grown hemp will provide fibers for clothing. We don't make
clothing here anymore. Your Levis weren't made here.

Local fibers will provide local cloth for locally made
clothing.

And create jobs. And help stop our slide into the certain
abyss.

No healthy oils for both consumption and biodiesel. No paper, no
chemicals for industry, no biofuels, no fast soil-improving-draught-tolerant
biomass.

No industry. Especially no local industry. We're so
screwed.

Ouch.

Craig Bergland

Reno