ANTI-HEMP IS ANTI-AMERICAN

I strongly disagree with the assertion, "there likely isn't
widespread support for industrial hemp" (It's time to grow hemp
support, Jan. 4 editorial). I have been purchasing hemp products from
my local health food stores for years, using hemp imported mostly
from Canada, a nice enough country, but I would rather those products
use hemp grown by American farmers. Why are "free" American farmers
prohibited from growing the God-given plant while communist Chinese
farmers grow it? The effort prohibiting U.S. farmers from growing
hemp is anti-American.

STAN WHITE

Dillon, Colo.