What do these things have in common and how do they affect me? That is question you should ask yourself. For me, up here in Canada, the connection may not be obvious. U.S. politics and oil- everyone gets that connection and the fact that when big brother to the south tells us what to do, we usually do it. What has that got to do with hemp and worms? The worms are for composting waste veggie matter to be put back on the soil to grow good produce with little or no herbicides, pesticides and fertilizers(all oil products) and the hemp grows just fine with little or no herbicides,pesticides and fertilizers. The fact is, growing hemp can improve soil. The U.S. which makes a huge profits off of oil through pharmacies, agrabusiness,petrochemicals, and plastics do not want compitition, even to the point of ruining the environment for the last buck. Canada follows the lead of Big Brother(usually) but up here Hemp is legal to grow (after jumping through a redtape nightmare to get approval) and only if you have a large enough space and the money to get everything up and running. Organic farming is everywhere in small plots as well as worm composting. The government can't keep people from composting. They do not have the manpower, nor would they get enough money out of the deal if they did. The problems lie with labeling foods and products "organic", when sometimes they are are only partially organic. Will obama or mac take marijuana out of scheduale one status as a drug when they get into power?m ost likely not if they want to get a second term out of the deal. Ron Paul on the other hand would. That makes him dangerous to the people who wish to milk every last dollar from us. If that happened, Canada would trot along so fast it would make your head spin. That action would save both of our economies immediately overnight and it would give us a new source of renewable oil in one season. The chemical plants would not lose much and the plastics people would have new feedstocks, but the pharmacies would be crushed, police budgets would be slashed(yeh -lower taxes) and some drugdealers would be out of business (or would start up legit). Again all those things would instantly be great for the economy. No one except for Ron Paul has the guts to do that. We would have an explosion of real organic produce markets springing up everywhere. I do not see a downside to any of this except for a few super rich people and families and groups may lose a little bit in the short term. long term, everyone wins including the environment. Lets do it now while we still have time.

Michael J. Kaer