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Incompetent bureaucrats waste taxpayer’s money on ridiculous campaign against hemp-seed-oil candy.

Here we are, folks, on the eve of what seems likely to be the worst medical disaster in history — the Great Avian Flu Pandemic of 2005. You might think that our elected officials would be making good use of their time (that we pay them well for) and their resources (that we taxpayers allow them to take from us) to help us prepare for this emergency. But you’d be wrong. These irresponsible politicians and bureaucrats are frittering away both time and money on issues that would be idiotic even in the best of times. A case in point is the campaign to ban hemp-seed-oil candy.

It came to the attention of state government officials in Illinois that stores in Chicago and elsewhere were selling lollipops containing hemp-seed-oil — a valuable nutritional supplement. Hemp is the same species of plant that marijuana comes from. But hemp-seed-oil contains only trace amounts of the neuro-active chemicals of marijuana — even the War-On-Drugs supporters admit that there is no psychoactive potential in hemp-seed-oil. What bothered the bureaucratic time-wasters in Illinois was the advertising used for the lollipops — tongue-in-cheek references to ‘pot suckers’ and other suggestions in a similar vein.

These governmental nincompoops soon stirred up similar-minded officials on city councils and in other legislative bodies in the U.S., and before long a series of bans were in place. By this time the issue was moot — the company that made the lollipops had decided to stop manufacturing them because the controversy was becoming a major nuisance.

How many hundreds of thousands of dollars and how many man-days of people’s time was wasted in this ridiculous exercise? We’ll never know. But every wasted dollar and every wasted man-hour will haunt us when the Avian Flu Pandemic hits and our society finds itself utterly unprepared for it. The Emperor Nero used to be portrayed as an irresponsible fool who played the fiddle while Rome burned. How, then, should we portray the kind of government officials who pursue lollipop-vendors while the flu pandemic gathers its forces to kill millions?

Link to news articles:

City Council Bans 'Pot Suckers'

POT SUCKERS

Link to press release by pro-hemp special-interest group:

Vote Hemp: Cannabis Flower Essential Oil Is Not Exempt from the Controlled Substances Act

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LifeLink unfortunately doesn’t carry hemp-seed-oil candies, but it does carry hemp seed oil in 1000 mg softgels.