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Posted by CN Staff on May 19, 2002 at 20:59:16 PT By Sid Salter, Clarion-Ledger Perspective Editor Source: Clarion-Ledger 
Make no mistake about it — Ole Miss is the place to be if you want to study pharmacy. Folks who matriculate there are brainiacs and they leave Oxford knowing the difference in Prevacid and Preparation H and then some.Ole Miss pharmacists have taken care of me all my life — from the late Jack Stribling in Philadelphia to Ricky Hunt now in Forest. I've reached the stage of life in which there's one pill for high blood pressure, one for high cholesterol, another for something called "high triglycerides"(don't ask, it has something to do with my fondness for the pulled pork plate at Homer's Barbeque) and two other big green pills that are roughly the chemical equivalent of Hamburger Helper for the pancreas. And let us not forget the insulin ("No, officer, those needle marks are not recreational, no, sir."). I love my Ole Miss pharmacists and they love me. But I never particularly understood the logic in locating a federal medicinal marijuana growing compound at Ole Miss. Letting Ole Miss pharmacists study the killer weed is a great idea, but let them grow it? Nah. Horticulture needed Seems to me that if you want something grown and grown right, you take it to an agricultural school. A land-grant institution, mind you. Dare I say it, if Uncle Sam needs a steady stash of high quality, potent wacky tobacco, he should have put the farm at Mississippi State — where we know a little about farming. That's our thing. Some folks in California are complaining publicly that the dope grown at Ole Miss is "weak" and full of "trash." Now I'm not sure what the Ole Miss pot growers are doing wrong, but I can promise you that if MSU plant pathologists were on the case, the weed in question would be supremely potent, yields would be vastly improved, more dope would be grown per acre with less herbicides and more targeted fertilizers. Heck, they'd be making RoundUp commercials about it. "Weak" marijuana grown at Ole Miss? Can you imagine what the U.S. Chamber of Commerce will do with this? What about the trial lawyers? Twinkie factories? Those boys in the MSU Experiment Stations don't play. They would produce "Bulldog Gold" and supply the medicinal marijuana user not only with some primo weed, but with the finest structurally-enhanced bongs on the planet as well designed by nerdy but with-it MSU mechanical engineers. Fellow Clarion-Ledger scribes Jim Ewing and Marshall Ramsey have some ideas on the subject. Ewing says the pot growing facility should rightly be put under control of the MSU Cooperative Extension Service's Delta Research and Extension Center — in Stoneville. Get it? He's still giggling. Ramsey — a Pulitzer finalist, but a scuzzy Tennessee Vol fan nonetheless — thinks that the production of higher grade Mississippi medicinal marijuana might lead to economic development opportunities. How so? "Twinkie factories, big old Twinkie factories," said Ramsey, his eyes glazed like a Krispy Kreme doughnut. "I bet those Aggies could grow pot plants as tall as the redwoods." You want law degrees and the joys of wandering Rowan Oak? Go to Ole Miss. You want to grow a bumper crop of something green? Hail, dear old State. Horticulture is what's needed here, not culture. Source: Clarion-Ledger (MS) Related Articles & Web Site: Picture of Debris - 3 NIDA Cannabis Cigarettes Users Complain Pot in Studies Too Weak Activists Complain About Government Pot Quality Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help |
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