CANNY CANNABIS: published letter

Source: The York Press
Date: June 21 2006
Author: Steve Clements, Legalise Cannabis Alliance
Type: Letter

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FOR once, I have common ground with Aled Jones (Facing extinction, Readers' Letters, June 19), regarding the destruction of many species by business greed in feeding our daily lives with junk food and poisonous packaging, along with the destruction of organic farming.

It is for these reasons that his most-hated plant, cannabis, has been demonised.

Forty per cent of the world's pesticides are used on cotton. The cannabis plant can produce more fibre per acre, will grow anywhere, and requires no pesticides. The cannabis plant produces more paper per acre than trees, can be made into biodegradable plastic and fuel, paints and varnishes, medicine, rope, building materials and food.

Our nation would have been covered in fields of cannabis hemp 150 years ago, thus we have an area of York called Hempland, while elsewhere in Britain we have Hemel Hempstead, Hampstead Heath, and Hampshire.

Two previous US presidents grew cannabis, Clinton and Bush both smoked it, and Levi's jeans were first made from it.

That cannabis should still be illegal, given our so-called concern for the environment, shows that our institutions are all but destroyed by the corruption of those that seek money and power.

Our government would rather arrest and imprison sick people for using cannabis than pass it as a medicine, despite its being one of the safest therapeutically active substances known.

Steve Clements, The Legalise Cannabis Alliance, Asquith Avenue, York.

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