HOUSE APPROVES GROWING HEMP

To the editor:

Another interesting fact about hemp: it thwarts illegal pot
growers.

The very last place anyone would want to grow pot is near a hemp
field. The hemp would pollinate the pot, causing it to go to seed. The
resulting pot would be useless as a drug, and the seeds it produces
would be next-to-useless as well, because the plants the seeds would
produce would be too rough for pot and too short for hemp.

So, to cut down on clandestine marijuana fields; cover the continent
with hemp.

RUSSELL BARTH

Ottawa, Ontario

Editor's note: Russell Barth adds that he is a federal medical
marijuana license holder in Ottawa.