DdC

(Good for rope and raising Drugczar statistics)

From Atanasoff Hall to the Armory, students touring the ISU campus might find another weed growing besides dandelions and crabgrass. Plants of Cannabis sativa, otherwise known as marijuana, can be found sprouting up in areas around Atanasoff Hall, the Armory and other places on campus.

This does not surprise Dennis Erickson, manager of facilities maintenance. "We do see them from time to time when we're out doing our bedding," he said. "We can't have somebody searching all the time."

ISU Police Capt. Gene Deisinger said he was not surprised by the prospect of marijuana plants growing on campus grounds.

"I don't have any direct information, but it's entirely possible there may be some out there," he said.

Hemp, a tough fiber made from the leaves and flowers of the marijuana plant, can be found all over the state of Iowa growing wild, and is a remnant from when it was cultivated in Iowa earlier in the previous century, said Deborah Lewis, a curator in the botany department.

There is even an abandoned hemp processing facility in Grundy Center, a town near Dubuque, she said.

"The original building is still there," said Jean Evans, secretary of the Grundy County Historical Society. "They were raising hemp to make ropes for the navy," she said. "Many of my friends worked there. They did turn many corn fields into hemp fields."

According to the Global Hemp Web site -- <a href="http://www.globalhemp.com" target="_blank">http ://www.globalhemp.com</A> -- Iowans were asked in 1943 to grow 60,000 acres of hemp as part of 300,000 acres to be cultivated nationwide. The hemp was to be used for ropes and other types of cordage. Because of the war, normal sources of raw material for ropes were cut off, and hemp offered an alternative.

"It wasn't cultivated for THC content, but for hemp," Lewis said.

She said industrial hemp, which is very likely the variety found on campus, has less than 1 percent THC content (the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana) and would be of little use to those seeking a recreational drug.

Although many states have passed bills calling for industrial hemp cultivation, to date it remains illegal without federal authorization, according to the Global Hemp Web site.

<a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread16699.shtml" target="_blank">Mari juana Native To Iowa</a>
Source: Iowa State Daily (IA Edu)
Author: Myron Peto, Daily Correspondent
Published: June 26, 2003
Contact: letters@iowastatedai ly.com
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Excerpted: The DEA no longer releases figures for ditchweed seizures, but in his book, "Marijuana in the Third World: Appalachia, USA," University of Kentucky sociologist Richard Clayton crunched official numbers from the late 1980s and early 1990s. "It is important to examine carefully how much of the marijuana eradicated in the US is essentially worthless ditchweed," wrote Clayton. "The answer is 95%."



Clayton's research is not the only to pan the DEA's eradication efforts, nor the most damning. A 1998 report by the Vermont State Auditor placed the proportion of ditchweed in DEA's marijuana eradication program even higher, at <a href="http://www.drcnet.org/wol/041.html#ditchweed" target="_blank">99.2 8%.</a>

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Isn't it amazing how afraid these college edumucated people are of THC??

They will throw you in jail and seize your property for growing industrial hemp, while calling you a drug dealer.

Wonderful country we live in. Makes me want to run to the tax office and pay extra taxes so we can be protected from dangerous plants.


Heil Dubya.

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A true patriot is always ready to stand up against his own government.

We can't be using plants that come from the Lord for beneficial purposes. Now hurry up, or we'll be late for church.

The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.-Adolf Hitler

Legalizing marijuana won't grow our economy-Barack Hussein Obama 2009

Lions & Christians (PB)

We've had ditch weed for years... cops never really throw a fit when the see one growing around anyplace but a house... they obviously are ditch if you ever seen them, we don't have the climate to fully produce them, and any cop can spot it out as just a ditch plant..

You'll never see one with buds either... never.

You can usually can find them around fields or around saylorville lake... believe me, none of it even remotely smokeable... just will give you a headace, usually male plants.

If you really want some interesting Iowa news over grass check out what just happend to Drake's new dean administrater, their really fucking this guy for nothing. The papers said he had like 32 plants... he didn't have anywhere close to it. They actually had the nerve to count the seed sprouts as fucking plants... fucking scum.

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The most dangerous drug on this planet has to be oxygen.

A gateway drug to say the least, further more people use without even consideration, not consenting to moderation in the least, and dont even get me started on the withdrawels.

the goal of alchemy is to turn lead into gold. to take a substance and combine it with another substance that makes it more than it's origenal worth. in this sense, you really need to start making bronze statues of your pharmacist or local chemist, for they have made gods own medicine, morphine, and in contrast, a shiney rock doesnt seem to compete.