1:30:54 uh... comment that i have a question about it hate to keep harping on it but uh... it bring back the marijuana issue that you're going to get there at the petition um... that i got by somebody down on the track and i've been involved with her for awhile now uh... trying to get as many signatures like that although it's not gonna help when the guy brought up the fact that should be legalized here in texas farc like that sovereignty goes. I'm all for that and one of the reasons why I want to make people aware is that number of American deaths per year that result directly are primarily from the following selected causes such as tobacco, alcohol and aspirin
1:31:39 Even aspirin, the deliberate overdose is 150 to 1,000 people per year. And marijuana users also have the same or lower incidence of murders and highway deaths and accidents than the general non-marijuana using population as a whole. In early 1989, a man named Jack Herr and Maria Farrow put this question to Steve Rawlings, the highest ranking officer in the U.S. Department of Agriculture who was in charge of reversing the greenhouse effect at USDA World Research Facility in Beltsville. They introduced themselves
1:32:16 asked if you could have any choice what would be the ideal way to stop or reverse the greenhouse effect and he said, well stop cutting down trees and stop using fossil fuels. And they asked why don't we? He goes there's no viable substitute for water paper or for fossil fuels so we ask him why don't use an annual plant for paper and biomass to make fuel. Well without the idea unfortunately there is nothing that can produce enough materials there was a plant that could substitute for wood pulp, paper and all fossil fuels. Make the fibers naturally and make everything from dynamite to plastic grow in all 50 states and one acre of it replaced 4.1 acres of trees and if you used about 6% of the U.S land
1:32:57 to raise it as an energy crop, even on our marginal lands. This plant would produce all 75 quadrillion billion BTUs needed to run America each year and would that help save the planet? They asked him and he said, Would that be ideal if there's no such plant?" And they said well yeah there is, there are 10. And he laughed and goes, well I never thought of it. You know, think you're right hemp could be that plant if we could do it. Well thats a great idea! We were excited at that point then he pops off and says its a wonderful idea and I think it might work but of course you can't use it Did you know that hemp is also marijuana? Yeah of course I knew but I've been writing about it This guy Jack says hes been writing about it for 17 years and one of them proceeds
1:33:39 Mr. Rawlings said, well you know it's illegal and you can't use it not even to save the world? And he said no its illegal we cannot use something illegal not even to save the world We asked again stunned not even to save the world It's illegal You cant use period don't get me wrong with a great idea I want to go ahead and tell the Secretary of Agriculture that a crazy man from California gave you documentation that showed that hemp might be able to save the planet, and your first reaction is he might be right and need some serious study. What would he say? He goes well, I don't think I'd be here for very long after I did that. After all, I am an officer of the government." And I think that's really ridiculous in just part of it. Some more information there is a place where
1:34:22 They want you basically to write your senator, but I wouldn't recommend that because it's not really going to help. I don't think that would help at all. But a good point is show me...take the United States Constitution or hey take the Texas Constitution what in that constitution prohibits or allows regulate marijuana or alcohol or tobacco, or anchovies, or peanuts... Or guns. Show me the law in there." It is not there and there's no reason for our government to regulate anything like that- any consumable product. They tried that back in when was it? The 30s when they did a prohibition against alcohol? They never had a prohibition against marijuana
1:35:19 but they did a prohibition against alcohol and they had to repeal that. So if that is classified as a drug, and alcohol is, and they had to have a constitutional amendment to prohibit it then why don't they have to have a constitutional amendment to prohibit marijuana or hashish? Or any other thing I don't agree that its good idea to do this stuff. I wouldn't do it personally I want the opportunity to ride down a road on my motorcycle with no helmet. It's my business, not theirs. I agree... With that folks we're going to take a quick break.