ENDING PROHIBITION ON HEMP PLANT WOULD HURT BIG BUSINESS

The movement to end the prohibition of a plant called hemp is turning a
blind eye to the negative consequences. An end to this prohibition would
hurt big business!

The timber industry would be hurt because you get 4.1 times the wood pulp
from an acre of hemp compared to an acre of timber. It takes one-sixth the
chemicals to process hemp into paper as compared to timber.

The fossil fuel industry could vanish. Because the hemp plant is one of the
most efficient with photosynthesis, it produces potent biomass products
(methanol for fuel cells) which would reduce our need for petroleum.

If Americans could grow their own medication so they didn`t need to buy
drugs for pain, anxiety, blood pressure, glaucoma, etc., the drug companies
would lose sales.

Next is the correctional business. Hundreds of thousands each year are
incarcerated because of possession of this outlawed plant. What would we do
with all that excess prison space?

Hardest hit would be the funeral industry. Countless Americans die early
from alcohol-related mishaps, and if Americans could be inebriated in
another, less dangerous fashion, they would.

Keep prohibition! It`s America, we answer to a higher authority: big business.

- - Tim Handley, CEO/Chairman, Advantage Companies, Gulf Breeze