"Not Guilty" in Medical Marijuana Trial..

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47. You wanna know a really sad sad story?

This guy who had been living on the Lakota Sioux reservation at Pine Ridge in the Dakotas had decided to grow hemp.

He got the acreage. He stared growing. He got contracts from companies, including a big contract from up north in Canada. He started to employ the local people, as fast as they could apply for the jobs.

Then the George Bush Administration shut him down. The cease and desist order meant the acreage had to go back to the wild. He was facing charges that could have had him spend years in jail.

So he was hoping that when Obama became President, the nation would see a relaxing of the rules regarding hemp. After all, hemp cannot get a person high.

But no. That was not the case. <sigh> I do think he ended up getting out of the jail sentence, but the money he made growing hemp was used for his court defense. And all the reservation folks he was employing are now back to being unemployed.

So much for change and hope (or change and hemp!)