So, is Bush going to provide funds for the Hemp Car?

[arcane1]

Since he's so suddenly concerned about breaking our oil addiction, and providing renewable sources of energy and blah blah blah

Bush, put your money where your mouth is!


http://www.hempcar.org/press.shtml

If you're driving on the interstate this summer and you smell a strange odor don't worry: You're not having a flashback and that isn't a "doobie" you smell, it's Hempcar! The exhaust won't "catch you a buzz" but the car is creating one amongst hemp activists and environmentalists. It's a car powered by hemp seed oil and it will be touring the country to promote drug-law reform and environmental fuel technologies.

Grayson Sigler and Kellie Ogilvie created the project to demonstrate the utility of hemp to car crazy Americans. They are embarking on a 10,000 mile journey around the continent beginning in Washington D.C. on July 4, 2001. "We've been pleasantly surprised by the attention the car is getting," says Ogilvie. "The website is starting to take off and we're getting a lot of support from the hemp industry."

The hemp movement has been gaining ground in fits and starts. Since Canada legalized production of industrial hemp, entrepreneurial Americans have created a $100 million per year industry manufacturing hemp products. Americans can now buy hemp paper, clothes, bags, shoes, and even hemp "tofu". However, the DEA hasn't exactly looked on all of this with magnanimity. Just last year the DEA instructed U.S. customs to seize a shipment of sterilized hemp birdseed from Canada, apparently in the "interest" of national security.

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[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. only if it runs on cocaine

I doubt if ** can get mellow enough to do hemp.

[marmar]

2. Maybe the imminent economic collapse...

will end all the Puritanical silliness that dominates U.S. politics, and force leaders to consider the potential economic bounty from hemp products. In the end, money talks.

[mtowngman]

3. it's been done

ice cream truck in Cheech and Chong's "Up in Smoke".

[megatherium]

4. You can go on a trip (but not actually go anywhere). nt

[yellowcanine]

5. Heck that's nothing new. We had lots of VW buses powered by hemp back in

the sixties. Just sayin'.