Phillip S. Smith, Drug War Chronicle. October 16, 2009. Hoping to focus the attention of the Obama administration on the DEA's bad policies, leading activists were willing to get arrested to make their point.
Dara Colwell, AlterNet. June 18, 2009. Every man-made fiber we wear, sit on, cook with, drive in, are by-products of the petroleum industry -- all of which could be replaced by hemp.
Dara Colwell, AlterNet. March 26, 2009. We can make over 25,000 things with it. Farmers love it. Environmentalists love it. You can't get high from it. So why is it still illegal?
Steven Wishnia, AlterNet. February 21, 2008. Pot isn't illegal because the paper industry is afraid of competing with hemp -- it's because of racism and the culture wars.