Hark! Clintstone´s drug czar interrupts my keyboard clatter, hollering, "fire," but it´s only, "fire," inside a theater of absurdity. The Clintstone czar is on C-SPAN, telling the congressional committee he needs more money to interdict drug traffikers tied in with domestic terrorists. Domestic Terrorists? Call Gore. Domestic terrorists are an endangered species. We don´t have any, unless you include two ritalin druggy high school kids and maybe one pro-life sniper, else he, or she, or they´d been heard from for sure on Senator´s day, falsely claiming to be Bulgarians blasting on behalf of the Albanians, the Serbs, the Kurds or that shakey Muslim renegade, bin Ladin.

A week after the drug czar´s appearance, the Associated Press distributes to Sunday papers everywhere: "States Enlisted to Legalize Hemp Crops" "It´s high time for hemp, say farmers who are enlisting state legislatures all around the country to legalize cultivation of hemp, marijuana´s highly profitable non-halucinogenic canabis cousin."

The article mentions the states of Montana, Virginia, Minnesota, Hawaii, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Tennessee, and New Mexico where pro-hemp legislation is already in the works. Add Kentucky since.

Hemp is a farmaceutical weed. One way to cultivate hemp is to throw the seeds on an otherwize useless tract, like a forlorn hillside in Appalachia, and come back four months later.

Hemp was America´s first cash crop, farmed for its fiber. The founders grew it. Hemp rope raised the hemp sails of a thousand clipper ships. Canvas comes from the latin word, cannabis, which comes from a Hebrew word in Genesis. Shirts made of hemp outlast cotton; the seed oil is super for sun tans, and hemp´s commercial potential in so many building trade products, besides making hardy paper, will save millions of trees. Currency printed with hemp today would last twice as long as our current bucks, saving more millions.

Unbleached hemp fiber is the reason our original dollars were colored green, and nicknamed greenbacks.

The AP reports, "The Drug Enforcement Administration and Justice Department were petitioned a year ago to repeal the DEA´s ban on hemp. But the DEA and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy have said permitting hemp farming would send the wrong signal to young people. They also worry that marijuana farmers could hide their crops with industrial hemp plants.

Police rely on on aerial imagery to detect marijuanna fields." Sooo. Control freak bureaucrats are corrupting our heaven above! Arial imagery refers to satellite technology, dummies, not camcorders in some helicopter! Aren´t the Chinese, Iraqi and North Korean nuclear installations a higher tech priority for us? Instead millions of dollars are squandered transmitting images from outer space of our own citizens conspiring with Mother nature to create fresh greenbacks.

Shops that feature clothing and accessories woven from hemp fiber are springing up all around the USA. It´s legal here to manufacture clothing, etc., out of hemp, but illegal to grow the stuff, so hemp fiber is imported from Canada. All around the world, hemp is being grown for its fiber.

The mind reels back to a whore house ante room in Saigon. We are all rolling spliffs while we wait for an available girl. The house momma-san says, "No can dooo." Why not, we asked, as we fired up our joints, breathing deep. She nods to the row of beds beyond the curtain and says, "Take tooo
much time with girl." Oh.

A major complaint by older folks is their inability to get a good night´s sleep. One dried pot bud smoked, or one pot brownie gobbled before bed time would solve that prob limb; and the centuries old mood altering religeous herb, ingested alongside Viagra, makes all that happens to a hard nosed Viagran last an additional twenty-five minutes. Poll that.