cannabisnews.com: Marijuana Users Warned To Steer Clear Of Red Pot Marijuana Users Warned To Steer Clear Of Red Pot Posted by CN Staff on July 24, 2003 at 08:20:36 PT By The Associated Press Source: Associated Press Oklahoma City -- Oklahoma narcotics agents are spreading the word: Don't smoke red dope. Since the end of June, Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control agents have been spraying fields of wild-growing marijuana with weed killer laced with red dye. Spraying is a much faster technique to permanently kill the marijuana. The red dye is to warn the public the plants have been sprayed with weed killer, said Mark Woodward, OBN spokesman. The northwest part of the state has an abundance of wild-growing marijuana because farmers in the area used to grow marijuana for the production of hemp. "Because the plant reproduces itself, there are fields and fields of the stuff and it's just a nuisance," Woodward said. During two weeks in June, an estimated 9.5 million plants were destroyed in Blaine, Custer, Ellis, Grant and Woodward counties. Officers will continue to destroy the plants until the fall. Farmers who want to spray wild marijuana on their land can get free herbicide from the Bureau of Narcotics. The federal spraying program, which started in 1997, is more effective than cutting or pulling the plants because pulled plants simply grow back the following summer, Woodward said. The weed killer sprayed on the plants is harmful to people who smoke the marijuana, but studies have shown that a person would need to smoke about 47 herbicide-laced cigarettes before it would harm them, Woodward said. Although illegal, marijuana was the No. 1 cash crop in Oklahoma in the 1980s and early 1990s, Woodward said. Now, with aggressive eradication programs, and by using helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft to spot and destroy the plants, it is no longer the problem it once was, he said. Major County Sheriff Tom Schaffer said wild marijuana remains a problem for law officers. "This year so far we have pulled about 14,000 plants and sprayed another 12,000," he said. "It is still a big problem with us, even though a lot of people don't think it is."Note: Agents Spray Dye-Laced Fertilizer On Fields.Source: Associated PressPublished: July 23, 2003Copyright: 2003 Associated Press CannabisNews -- Cannabis Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/cannabis.shtml Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #27 posted by FoM on July 25, 2003 at 10:43:46 PT Thanks Dan! I didn't know that! That sure makes me happy! [ Post Comment ] Comment #26 posted by kaptinemo on July 25, 2003 at 10:36:18 PT: Folks, you're missing something... Namely, that they are, for the most part, spraying industrial hemp, not even worthy of being called schwag. Very, very low THC. Talk about a colossal waste of taxpayers money, when the State of OK desperately needs the money for other matters, like school lunches.Typical DrugWarriors, acting just like King Canute, who ordered his men to lash the waves to punish the water for not obeying his command that the tide not ebb and flow.Usually, when individuals demonstrate aberrant behavior, they are treated or locked up. But when cops spray useless ditchweed at huge expense to the taxpayer, they are given salaries. Only in America... [ Post Comment ] Comment #25 posted by Dan B on July 25, 2003 at 03:09:09 PT Farm Aid Coverage Since 1999, CMT (Country Music Television, DirecTV channel 327) has had full coverage of Farm Aid, and I would be surprised if they didn't cover it this year as well. That includes a live video feed of the concert itself. Kid Rock and Dave Matthews Band were both aired on CMT last year even though neither is a country act.Having said that, to my knowledge there has been no formal announcement this year about television coverage. I suspect that such an announcement will be made at a later date. September is several weeks into the future. The website seems to be directed at what is happening right now at CMT rather than what will happen in the future. I hope this information is of some use to everyone.Dan B [ Post Comment ] Comment #24 posted by FoM on July 24, 2003 at 22:09:23 PT Related Article from Michael Hess - BBSNews.com Oklahoma Poisons Wild Marijuana With Unknown Red Dyed Herbicide: http://bbsnews.net/bw2003-07-24.html [ Post Comment ] Comment #23 posted by FoM on July 24, 2003 at 20:44:20 PT ekim Thank you too! I will try to find out. My husband drives thru Columbus once a week and listens to the radio and they might say so I'll ask him to let me know if he hears anything. [ Post Comment ] Comment #22 posted by ekim on July 24, 2003 at 20:24:15 PT thanks FoM will anyone be broadcasting from there on the web or radio or tv. seems that many others would like to have gone to this event. -------You are doing a wonderful job FoM heres to ya------ [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by FoM on July 24, 2003 at 19:48:17 PT ekim We were thinking of going but they are sold out. http://www.farmaid.org/event/http://www.farmaid.org/event/press/docs/pr_07162003.asp [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by goneposthole on July 24, 2003 at 19:35:18 PT How Frank Zappa might have warned 'Watch out where the DEA goes and don't you smoke that redrope smoke' [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by ekim on July 24, 2003 at 19:00:23 PT Stone copy this story if you want to help and give it to all that will listen. if you really can't sleep go to the Farm Aid on July 30 i beleive in Columbus Ohio. maybe someone has a link for the event hosted by Willie Nelson. i hope anyone who is selling hemp products goes to this event and shows the great hemp goods. Dennis Kocinnich represents the Columbus area --hope he is there as well as Willie is backen him for Pres. [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by SoberStoner on July 24, 2003 at 17:58:17 PT I dont cry.. Yet I am forced to hold back tears as I see what our country has become.We say we want to restore dignity to our country, then show the world how we kill people. They say they want to show the world 'proof' they have killed someone, yet they refuse to show us the 'proof' they say they had for the very reason we are there in the first place.We say we want to save the children, yet we poison our fields.As a younger smoker, the only cannabis I had was schwag, and we always heard tales of the magical mythical 'red weed' which of course we were referring to the hairs that turn red as they ripen..However I didnt know that at the time...If someone had shown me red cannabis when I was younger and less informed I would have smoked it..True cannabists do not smoke schwag, but our children do since it's unregulated and easier to obtain in our schools than alcohol or tobacco.These bastards are destroying everything they touch.I want so badly to renounce my citizenship, but I cant...I love america...I hate it's government.My fury is so great I can't even begin to describe what I feel. I want to swear at anyone who blindy waves a flag and ask them if they know what that flag really stands for and the principles it's based on.I want to slap people I see who blindly follow this administration cheering the whole time they lead us to destruction.I want to be able to express my beliefs to others without fearing the wrong people will hear it and break into my house and throw me into a cage.I want my country back. [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by afterburner on July 24, 2003 at 15:25:27 PT: Now... who's using Weapons of Mass Destruction and chemical warfare against their own people? I am outraged! "They've outlawed the number one vegetable on the planet." - Timothy Leary - ego transcendence follows ego destruction, the good that you do in this life lives on, the evil that you do in this life lives on. [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by BGreen on July 24, 2003 at 14:10:44 PT Ironic It's sad to see the farmers who are losing their family farms at a disgusting rate destroy the plant that thrives in the crappy soil that requires massive amounts of fertilizer and constant irrigation to grow most other plants, a process that pollutes the very water that the farmers desperately try to pump from deeper and deeper wells.Hemp will replenish the soil, grow with minimal fertilization and irrigation, and save the farms faster than you can say "Willie Nelson."The Rev. Bud Green [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by BGreen on July 24, 2003 at 13:55:25 PT Cannabis Specific Herbicide? I Doubt It They are destroying the indigenous plant life, i.e. animal habitat and food, thereby destroying the fauna and upsetting the entire ecological balance ... all to destroy a PLANT, feral hemp.They're destroying the world to try and get rid of the plant than can and will save the world.The Rev. Bud Green [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by freedom fighter on July 24, 2003 at 13:19:03 PT Really, It's the birds that probably will eat those seeds and die from it.. Wish there's a before and after photos. This is sick..pazff [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by Virgil on July 24, 2003 at 12:59:40 PT These guys are addicted to prohibition The prohibitionists need to be in a 12 step program for their addiction to this insanity. They need to be forced to recognize the ones they have wronged and make restitution to them for the error of their ways. Well, that is a one step program to get them started.The word sin has to do with just missing the bullseye as in archery. Cannabis Prohibition is a sin against humanity.Cannabis Prohibition is WRONG. Right, SS? [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by CorvallisEric on July 24, 2003 at 12:41:12 PT Christian compassion? From observer's top link:Advocates of "medical" marijuana often suggest it will help relieve pain in the dying. Knowing that marijuana opens people up to demonic influence, I certainly would not recommend that anyone use it, especially those who will soon meet their Maker. [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by observer on July 24, 2003 at 12:01:48 PT Government: We'll poison the pot heads The government's intent is to poison pot heads. Since, as others have pointed out, the weed attacked is (now wild) hemp left over from hemp-growing times (pre-1950s etc), nobody smoked the stuff anyway. But such a publicity announcement is sure to warm good prohibitionist hearts across the Bible-belt. We've seen the same barbarism and ill will before from such kind people who gladly "doeth God service" by poisoning drug users. What is the real "pharmakia", and who are the actual "poisoners"? http://www.sosmin.com/marijuana_tract.htmlhttp://www.google.com/search?q=marijuana+pharmakia+poisoner etc.Self-styled "Men of God" tell us it is the sin of using drugs which thus justifies the arbitrary crulity and murder of drug users. But tell me, who are the real "poisoners"? Some pot user who grows pot and enjoys cannabis? Or an angry government official bent on literally poisoning plant and man alike?Consider what prohibitionists have proposed doing to those who disagree with them:''Prohibitionists often advocated strong measures against those who did not comply with Prohibition (1920-1933). One suggested that the government distribute poisoned alcohol beverages through bootleggers (sellers of illegal alcohol) and acknowledged that several hundred thousand Americans would die as a result, but thought the cost well worth the enforcement of Prohibition. Others suggested that those who drank should be: hung by the tongue beneath an airplane and flown over the country exiled to concentration camps in the Aleutian Islands excluded from any and all churches forbidden to marry tortured branded whipped sterilized tattooed placed in bottle-shaped cages in public squares forced to swallow two ounces of caster oil executed, as well as their progeny to the fourth generation.'' http://www2.potsdam.edu/alcohol-info/FunFacts/Prohibition.html"You deserve to die." -- William Bennett, commenting on drug offendersIn testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Daryl Gates, former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department testified that casual marijuana smokers "ought to be taken out and shot," because, he said, "we're in a war" (Beers, 1991, p.38).D.A.R.E. founder Daryl Gates once advised the U.S. Senate about the 'casual user' and what you do with the whole group. "The casual user ought to be taken out and shot, because he or she has no reason for using drugs." Gates later emphasized that he was "not being facetious" and declared marijuana users to be guilty of treason. http://www.pdxnorml.org/ http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/ - The latest breaking drug-related news! [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by CorvallisEric on July 24, 2003 at 11:34:42 PT Random thoughts 1 - This may be a good thing since it will keep some low-grade schwagg off the market.2 - The northwest part of the state has an abundance of wild-growing marijuana because farmers in the area used to grow marijuana for the production of hemp. Ah yes, never miss the opportunity for propaganda.3 - Although illegal, marijuana was the No. 1 cash crop in Oklahoma in the 1980s and early 1990s, Woodward said. Now, with aggressive eradication programs, and by using helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft to spot and destroy the plants, it is no longer the problem it once was, he said. And all the while, their insanely draconian policies did nothing to solve their "problem." For most other states I would have a hard time believing Petard's story (comment #4), but not Oklahoma (or Alabama). Remember Will Foster?4 - The weed killer sprayed on the plants is harmful to people who smoke the marijuana, but studies have shown that a person would need to smoke about 47 herbicide-laced cigarettes before it would harm them, Woodward said. How the hell did they come up with that?I think I'll close this with some lyrics from the Broadway show that opened the same time they were growing hemp there. Plen'y of heart and plen'y of hope. -- Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain -- And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet -- When the wind comes right behind the rain. http://www.oktourism.com/children/oklahoma_lyrics.asp [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by FoM on July 24, 2003 at 11:10:36 PT fearfull Oh yes I remember paraquat?I hope I don't seem too angry by my comments today because I'm really not angry. I'm suffering from a case of righteous indignation. I get that way now and then. [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by BigDawg on July 24, 2003 at 11:08:36 PT fearfull I was just thinking the same thing.I still remember paraquat.They have to MAKE it dangerous. [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by fearfull on July 24, 2003 at 11:00:17 PT Can you say.... paraquat? [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by FoM on July 24, 2003 at 10:36:47 PT cloud7 I don't believe in using chemicals at all. Using chemicals makes stronger bugs because some will survive. Weeds will become resistant to herbicides. Horses, cows and all grazing creatures consume these pesticides and herbicides. We consume some of the grazing creatures. In the end it hurts us all. [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by cloud7 on July 24, 2003 at 09:50:11 PT Two Children Die After Smoking Marijuana This is the headline we'll be seeing shortly with only a passing mention of the toxic herbicides near the end of the article. FoM, that's exactly what I was thinking. They turn a nontoxic plant into a highly toxic one. They may have to kill or sicken a few children, but at least they're saving them! [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by Petard on July 24, 2003 at 09:31:45 PT: I used to live there They had a case of putting an old man in prison for his newly purchased land. Seems it had been a Federal property during WWII and the "Hemp for Victory" program. Since WWII the land had changed ownership 4 to 6 times. It was also common knowledge the land was "weed infested" with naturally occurring hemp from the WWII program. The OSBI (Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations, state version of the FBI) arrested, charged, held the old man on excessive bail, for several years dragged out the case, "won" an initial conviction that financially and emotionally broke the old guy to appeal but something like 6 years later he won his freedom in state supreme court. The old man had owned the land about 6 months prior to his arrest, he died about 6 months after his freedom. Ain't American justice grand? At least the State Supreme Court chastised the OSBI for their abuse of power and selective prosecution, as it turns out the OSBI, of course, knew for 40 years or more the hemp grew there wild (it still grows on that land to this day). [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by afterburner on July 24, 2003 at 08:46:10 PT: They're Destroying our Natural Resources. All that good hemp fiber and hempseed wasted, and they wonder why the economy's in the toilet. The USA is the only country in the world that demonizes hemp fiber. Of course, the logic of the DEAth program says that any amount of THC is illegal for food, fiber, or driving, just because marijuana [sic] is a schedule one [sic] prohibited substance/drug [sic]. Sick, sick, sick.ego transcendence follows ego destruction, affordable paper and cloth, protein, essential omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, and fuel; or destroying families, putting people in cages, denying medicine to sick people, denying student aid, and confiscating homes. [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by Windminstrel on July 24, 2003 at 08:41:20 PT idiocy "Although illegal, marijuana was the No. 1 cash crop in Oklahoma in the 1980s and early 1990s, Woodward said. "Good thing they stamped out that cash crop -- can't have people making money, can we? How's the state economy these days? [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by FoM on July 24, 2003 at 08:24:13 PT They Make Marijuana Hazardous Then they blame the plant itself! [ Post Comment ] Post Comment