cannabisnews.com: U.S. Approves Development of Anti-Marijuana Fungus U.S. Approves Development of Anti-Marijuana Fungus Posted by Ron Bennett on December 11, 1998 at 00:04:06 PT Sure hope they know what they're doing... The U.S. Congress has allocated 23 million to fund research of a fungus that can kills illicit crops, in particular cannabis plants. From a recent NORML article at URL:http://www.commonlink.com/~olsen/NORML/WEEKLY/98-12-10.htmlU.S. officials plan on introducing the fungus into several foriegn nations including Columbia, Peru, and Bolivia.NORML Executive Director R. Keith Stroup, Esq. makes the following statements in the article:"We are setting a dangerous precedent by promoting the development of biological agents in the war on marijuana,...""There is a real danger that such a toxic agent may have serious adverse impacts on surrounding plants and the ecosystems of these nations."Representatives Bill McCollum (R-Fla.) and Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) feel this is a potential "silver bullet" in the war on drugs and have pushed for the funding of the killer fungus. Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #48 posted by racheal tipton on January 17, 2002 at 10:31:02 PT i like pot i like pot [ Post Comment ] Comment #47 posted by mark Spicy on November 11, 2001 at 22:15:15 PT: Rasta Man This buds for you. Rasta man stop smoking Crack,And get under Bill Clintons Desk.listen son if you wanna talk Political talk ill smack you around like a redheaded step child. Than ill make you go back to school and demand your money back because you been robbed. [ Post Comment ] Comment #46 posted by jimmy on September 09, 2001 at 10:53:50 PT goverment and legelizing pot the gov wont legelize pot because its to hard to taxs. everyone and there brother can grow it . unlike other drugs .all they want from us is to become wage slaves [ Post Comment ] Comment #44 posted by essence on July 31, 2001 at 13:55:59 PT: TRUTH and POSITIVITY When the government trys to control PLants they are setting tyrany upon our people. trying to stop people from thinking and being concious of the true world around them. They try to bring down our pakalolo(healing herb), yet pollute our minds and bodys with thier drugs and pesticides. No matter how they brain wash our youth , what drugs they feed into the system,what biological war they declare on our healing herb,TRUTH and POSITIVITY(not GREED!) will prevail. [ Post Comment ] Comment #43 posted by tryin to help on July 24, 2001 at 16:31:40 PT drug testing There is something at cleartest.com that does work and you don't have to dry out at all. It costs $30 but if you fail you get double your money back. [ Post Comment ] Comment #42 posted by Matt on June 15, 2001 at 16:15:09 PT: Just testing “Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves” - Ronald Reagan Media Awareness Project [ Post Comment ] Comment #41 posted by Concerned Citizen on June 14, 2001 at 07:48:12 PT: Im a Concerned Citizen Im concerned that the government WONT allow pot to be legal. If they did they would get a lot more money from taxes. But no! Stupid government cant be smart. Well I would like to say if the government started to legalize cannabis then the world would be a better place to live in! If everyday at like 3pm everyone in the world smoked a fattie! It would be great! Like im talking everyone in the world, cops, presidents, prime ministers, absolutely everyone grabed an OZ. and rolled a big fattie! It would be awesome!From Concerned Citizen [ Post Comment ] Comment #40 posted by grand isle police on May 21, 2001 at 16:16:37 PT: police that love to get high yep the whole police force loves to smoke dope! thats why its legal in grand isle. we also like to roll our asses off [ Post Comment ] Comment #39 posted by DAMON LANDRY on May 21, 2001 at 16:12:31 PT: if your not choking your not smoking!! weed rules every body in grand isle la. does it. the cops even do it w/ us its the best stuff when laced w/ crystal. i thinx everyody should should smoke it it and if you dont smoke it start b/c it rules [ Post Comment ] Comment #38 posted by Henry on May 18, 2001 at 11:20:17 PT Passing urine test Question: Would like suggestions out there for passing urine test for Pot. Thank you, Henry. [ Post Comment ] Comment #37 posted by erica on May 16, 2001 at 09:23:21 PT don't criticize it legalize it i feel weed opens up the brain to new ideas, it widens the imagination, it relaxes you after a hard day at work. More and more teens and adults are gettin introuble with the law over nickel bags of weed. Our tax dollars go to thousands of people sitting in jail because they smoked a little weed or got caught wit some. our money could be going to something more important. over a period of of thousands of years of use no one has ever died because they smoked a couple blunts, but every day hundreds of people die because of alcohol. Everyone needs to chill out . God grew it smoke it. [ Post Comment ] Comment #36 posted by Big-C on April 27, 2001 at 10:23:28 PT: Smoke em up Weed shall proceed (Woodside Boyz Will represent) [ Post Comment ] Comment #35 posted by jason hoppe on April 11, 2001 at 12:21:32 PT marijuana i am in highschool and am doing a persuasove speech on weed. i want to show them that weed is safer than smokes. [ Post Comment ] Comment #34 posted by observer on April 06, 2001 at 10:19:31 PT re: persuasive speech seeThe Drug Policy Debate: Debate Manualshttp://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/debate/debate.htm#Manualssee especially:The Persuasive Strategieshttp://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/ACTIVIST/persuas.htmBest of luck! [ Post Comment ] Comment #33 posted by Fhill on April 06, 2001 at 09:57:00 PT pot i am doing a persuasive speech in my college communication class. i have been doing research on some drugs including alcohol and weed. so far i am going try and pursuade the class that weed is safer and better for you than alcohol [ Post Comment ] Comment #32 posted by Majed Diab on March 02, 2001 at 11:22:59 PT: I search about old machine hello i`m an architect i look for old machin for product pure alchol if you have any idea please tell me about that and thanks [ Post Comment ] Comment #31 posted by Arielle on February 06, 2001 at 13:42:27 PT: .....? ....Whatever man.... [ Post Comment ] Comment #30 posted by christine on January 29, 2001 at 10:32:42 PT: marijuiana legalize we will have big tax deduction and better health care for the futur [ Post Comment ] Comment #29 posted by Jean Ette on January 11, 2001 at 18:19:59 PT: MAKE POT LEGAL! We have all these stores selling alchol on every corner causing people to get killed everyday but that is legal and they same all these gangs they are tring to get under controleople is only older peoplke like myself looking to some a joint at the end off my night. Here you go to P.T.A. and here everyone saying they can't wait till they get home to a mixed drink or wine cooler which I don't like alchol. When here up in the White House for 8 years nothing but parties, drinking and of course they tryied it but didn't inhale(HONESTLY) Do they really think the American people are that stupid. If they would make it legal there would be a lot less crime on the street's! WAKE UP AND LEGALIZE IT! [ Post Comment ] Comment #28 posted by Bryan Palmer on December 02, 2000 at 20:30:50 PT: The lack of knowledge.... Well....Everyone gets worked up about "POT" it's like anyother drug, use in moderation. I don't know why AA is considered a "Recovery" but Rehab for "POT" is a sin and the indiviual is considered a "DRUG ADDICT". This society needs to pull on the pipe once and a while themselves. [ Post Comment ] Comment #27 posted by misty on November 29, 2000 at 06:37:51 PT pot is good for you I think that these people are crazy! How could they want to take pot away from americans. All hell would break lose because that is how some people cope with life. I can sure tell you that is how I do. I have never got in a wreck because of pot but alomost died because of alcohol because I was driving on the wrong side of the road. Shit most of the hypocritc people that make up our government are pot smokers. Now tell me why any one would want to take such a good thing away?????????????????????????????????? [ Post Comment ] Comment #26 posted by dddd on November 14, 2000 at 05:38:16 PT jenrull lee Rastaman,,,I appreciated you comment,and I am glad you reminded me of one 0f the most positive vibrations of the recent elections,,,and that is the ousting of two of worst chronic d#%kheads ever to hold office. There's other good stuff that comes from down south/bible belt besides the dukes and Mardi Gra,,what about Elvis and Ray Charles,or James Brown and Hank Williams?The south aint all that bad,even though I must agree,it is hoppin' with rednecks.....dddd [ Post Comment ] Comment #25 posted by Rastaman on November 13, 2000 at 23:44:32 PT Good News! I believe both of the above senators have been BOUNCED in the recent election. I am 100% sure about the a$$hole from Florida, only 90% sure about the Ohio guy.All I can say is I'm glad I'm in New England. Shocking how much of the country is filled w/ right-wing rednecks. Didn't we kick their ass bad enough in the Civil War? The only good thing to come out of the Bible Belt is the "Dukes of Hazzard" and Mardi Gras [ Post Comment ] Comment #24 posted by Paul on November 10, 2000 at 06:43:51 PT: What the hell is Wrong with our Government???? What the hell is wrong with our government? I am 18 years old an have been smoking pot for six years now. Every tells us that pot is so bad for you it kills your brain. you know what screw them, i am perfectly fine. Now on the other hand one of best friends is an alcoholic his life is a total mess hes been arrested more times than there are cars on the road. it just goes to show you how stupid our government really is, but what we need to do is start a pitition. by law if you have a legal pitition they have to at least look at it. an who cares if your whole name is on there they can't do anything cause they have no right to do.What we need to do instead of bitchin about it is stand up do something about it. If people could just help me E-mail me at nitro155 aol.com so we can fight for the legalization of marijuana. [ Post Comment ] Comment #23 posted by Bill still smokes!! on November 08, 2000 at 10:53:45 PT This shitty government has it all wrong!!! I agree with almost everyone my best friend has wrecked a muscle car, had two DUI's due to alcohol. Every time I've had trouble with the law is because of liquor. common sense will tell you that alcohol is worse than pot, at least I can function when I am high, unlike alcohol when people are stumbling around and starting fights. Pot should be legal for personal use, and growth, cig's are more addicting than heroin and there legal, that makes alot of fucking sense??? They are making the country unhealthy, alcohol impairs you, I can drive after a nice joint, not after three or four shots, is that telling you something. This government has no right to tell us not to smoke the shit, spending 23 million to eliminate, that is why the economy is so bad. There just to fucking blind to see that, we all have to come together and fight for what makes more sense, these people that are against it are stupid, I want everyone to go to this sit www.lectlaw.com R.Rinkle has some things to say about pot and he it is saying that alcohol is better for you than pot so check it out. There is a small town in California that just voted on a law to legalize the growing for personal use. Everyone in town was for it, maybe the rest of the U.S. should think of doing the same!! [ Post Comment ] Comment #22 posted by Bill did not inhale? on November 08, 2000 at 10:46:40 PT This shitty government has it all wrong!!! I agree with almost everyone my best friend has wrecked two muscle cars, had two DUI's due to alcohol. Every time I've had trouble with the law is because of liquor. Pot should be legal for personal use, and growth, cig's are more addicting than heroin, that makes alot of fucking sense??? They are making the country unhealthy, alcohol impairs you, I can drive after a nice joint, not after three or four shots, is that telling you something. This government has no right to tell us not to smoke the shit, spending 23 million to eliminate, that is why the economy is so bad. There just to fucking blind to see that, we all have to come together and fight for what makes more sense, these people that are against it are stupid, I want everyone to go to this sit www.lectlaw.com R.Rinkle has some things to say about pot and he it is saying that alcohol is better for you than pot so check it out. There is a small town in California that just voted on a law to legalize the growing for personal use. Everyone in town was for it, maybe the rest of the U.S. should think of doing the same!! [ Post Comment ] Comment #21 posted by William Hollis on November 01, 2000 at 13:33:19 PT LEGALIZE IT WHY,I HAVE TO ASK MY SELF THIS WHY IS IT ILLEGAL IN THE FIRSTPLACE. MAYBE IF IT WAS ADDICTIVE LIKE ALCHOLE WE WOULD HAVETO LEGALIZE IT BUT, NO. SOME TIMES I WONDER WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO THIS GOD FORSAKEN COUNTRY IN THE FIRST PLACE WE CALL OUR SELVES FREE, HOW, HOW ARE WE FREE. WE CANT MAKE ANY DESISIONS ON OUR OWN. WE NEED SOME A GOVERMENT TO TELL US WHAT IS RIGHT FROM WRONG. NOW HOW FUCKED UP IS THAT. IT DRIVING ME INSANE , BECAUSE WE SO CALLED FREE PEOPLE EXCEPT IT. HOW CAN MAN BE FREE AS LONG AS WE HAVE ONE MAN OVER ANOTHER. WHO IS HE TO TELL ME WHAT I CAN SMOKE. WHO IS HE TO TELL ME ANY THING, JUST BECAUSE HE CAN STAND UP IN FRONT OF US AN TELL US HOW RIGHT HE IS AND HOW HE WILL HELP OUR ECONOMY . ISAY FUCK THE ECONOMIE. WHAT DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH ME. NOT A DAMN THING. TRY AND SHOW ME HOW IT DOES AND I WILLSHOW YOU HOW IT IS FUCKING ALL OF US DIRETLY IN THE ASS. SOME ONE PROVE ONE GOOD POINT ABOUT HOW THE GOVERMENT IS HELPING ME IN ANY WAY BESIDES PISSING OFF OTHER CONTIES AND SENDING ME AND MY FAMILY OF TO SAVE THIER ASSES. THESE WAR PIGS OF THE POWER AREKILLING US ALL. NOW EXCUSE ME IT ALMOST 4:20 AND IM TIRED OF THINKING ABOUT THOSE WHO THINK THEY CAN RULE MAN. IM GOING OUT SIDE TO TALK TO GOD AND SMOKE A SPLIFF. ANARCHY THOUGH CAPTALISM [ Post Comment ] Comment #20 posted by pete on October 26, 2000 at 09:12:08 PT fungus how about a fungus to kill yuppies? [ Post Comment ] Comment #19 posted by pete on October 26, 2000 at 09:07:39 PT pot fungus why not just use agent orange like they did in nam?(oops) [ Post Comment ] Comment #18 posted by Danketh McHerbal on October 20, 2000 at 19:41:07 PT: Fungus Introducing a fungus to wipe out cannabus is completly out of hand. What gives these politicians the right to play God? God created marijauna, and now IGNORANT and corrupt human beings that care only about money are waging biological warfare against the Earth. Nice. The war against marijauna has FAILED MISERABLY for 63 years,and the DEA will continue to fail, because is is a war that CANNOT be won. People will always toke up, regardless of these unjust and unconstitutional laws. The U.S. governmentneeds to stop wasting tax dollars to enforce laws against non-violent marijauna smokers, and start going after VIOLENT CRIMINALS!!!!!! HARRY BROWNE FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [ Post Comment ] Comment #17 posted by smoker on October 13, 2000 at 22:52:38 PT: weed a liite blunt never hurt anyone [ Post Comment ] Comment #16 posted by jessie Tuner on October 05, 2000 at 13:20:56 PT weed is good for you if weed ever killed anyone than i dont think that very many people would be doing it. I mean ya, people will still do it but not as much. people use this stuff for cancer, it saves life. [ Post Comment ] Comment #15 posted by jeremy on September 22, 2000 at 06:57:18 PT potand the usa free the weed [ Post Comment ] Comment #14 posted by robert parker on September 21, 2000 at 20:55:28 PT: marijuana anti-fungus what in God's name are these people thinking?Do they actually think that this fungus will totally eradicate all cannibinoids in general. Not very likely.If any of you have done any research on the cartels and the phony war on drugs; you would realize that our government has helped them by using our military resources and personell to subdue the underdogs while the top dogs were cranking out pharmaceutical grade opiates and cocaine in labs protected by their governments armed forces. The only motive here is pure and simple: GREED AND CORRUPTION. While 23 million of our money is grossly misallocated to profit some major lab to develop an anti-fungus that may not work, if successful all it will do is drive up the street cost of marijuana by decreasing supply. And in my opinion, another reason for this concept is merely sound bytes. If you really think that half of the people representing us, or those influencing their decisions really are doing this out of genuine human compassion; then you are a very easily manipulated person. Or a less politically correct word for that would be: fool. Besides, every time man has manipulated nature it has unleashed it's wrath on us. For example, coastal erosion due to coastal oil-drilling. The time has come for all of us to take a stand. Tell every person you know who gives a damn about the future of our planet and health to write to their congressman and voice their opinion on this. Because if you just sit back and smoke a joint and say "Don't worry about it, dude" there is no telling if that will be your last. Even scarier is if it doesn't kill the weed it may kill you. And even if you do not smoke weed (i have quit personally) think about what 23 million dollars coul do. The federal government has rarely ever made a wise decision; or better yet one not motivated by personal gain. Besides, where in the constitution or the Bible does it say "Thou shalt not smoketh of the weed."? Simply put the federal government is stating to feed us dictatorial sugar pills. Without state's sovereignty we have no freedom from the federal government. Do something before it is to late. [ Post Comment ] Comment #13 posted by Nick on September 19, 2000 at 12:34:53 PT: FREE THE HERB!!!!!! Marijuana should be legalized (to an extent). But what everyone needs to realize, is that, your sitting around and waiting for the government to legalize Marijuana isn't helping. Only the legal voters can change the law. As far as this fungus... This is getting a little out of control. When our government spends 23 million of our (the taxpayers) dollars to kill a plant that founded our country and is a very important part of the Homeo-system, thats crazy!! What the lawmakers need to realize, is that, is it right to give someone time in prison because they were smoking Marijuana in the privacy of their own home... WE ARE NOT POSING A THREAT TO SOCIETY!! Look around for a sec. Alcohol and Nicotine, both very addictive, both deadly, both legal? For a drug that does so much good, Why must it be illegal. For those of you who have noticed our country was founded on Hemp. It gives us: ropes, masts, paper, oxygen, and now even a pain reliver. Insted of America trying not to be like other countries(e.g. Measurement, weight,etc.) why don't they go with the flow and LEGALIZE MARIJUANA. [ Post Comment ] Comment #12 posted by Amanda on September 12, 2000 at 18:30:27 PT: marijauna should be legal! Marijauna is a practically harmless "drug". How many people do you hear of dying from marijauna, compared to alcohol, which is a legal drug. [ Post Comment ] Comment #11 posted by Amanda on September 12, 2000 at 18:27:57 PT: marijauna allthough marijauna is supposed to be a gateway drug, i believe that legalizing it would cut down on a lot of the worlds problems. Crime is one example. If weed was legal, people wouldn't have to go through so much, such as drug dealers to get it. It would also cut down on a lot of other things dealing with the way people get weed today. [ Post Comment ] Comment #10 posted by Josh on September 07, 2000 at 08:38:25 PT Why hurt a good thing If the goverment was to allow the tobacco company's to produce marijuiana smokes, and have them taxed like normal cigs' then and put some rules to them. Everything would be great, but instead we have to be careful about enjoying something special, for fear that we might get put in jail for something that didn't hurt anyone. I enjoy the pleasure of marijuiana much more than I do drinking a nasty beer, Not to mention I don't wake up with a headache (hangover). Canada might be on the way to legalizing marijuiana, so hopefully someone in the oval office will wake up and see that we Americans should be allowed our freedom that we were suppost to have. This Anti-Fungus things is something that is going to just poision the soils of mother earth and add to the deminishing of our earth. [ Post Comment ] Comment #9 posted by laura on July 20, 2000 at 21:45:45 PT: Duh I just want to comment to all those yuppie hypocritical people who say marijuiana is bad or evil or against god or whatever.Marijuana is a natrual plant put on this planet by your so-called god (sorry I'm not christian) Anyways it is a natural stress reliever, pain killer, sleep aid, and in some cases an escape from reality, everybody needs an escape sometimes. Would you rather us use a man made chemical pill that screws with our body and mind something that "god" did not intend for us to have. Or should we use the natural gifts our planet gave us to deal with these problems? Duh [ Post Comment ] Comment #8 posted by boyner on June 18, 2000 at 03:03:51 PT: anti marijuana fungus Oh yeah, like south america imports vast amounts of pot into the USA. Don't y'all grow your own in the USA? This fungus idea is lunacy and will no doubt inadvertantly attack Industrial Hemp plants.Which would suit the US government nicely. If they 'accidentally' eradicate the useful hemp plant along with 'marijuana-assasin of youth' then that would be a bonus.I was wondering what the next big idea would be, considering the recent resurgence of hemp and its products. Anti hemp fungus. Neat.Once again an attack on industrial hemp is trojan-horsed onto the world in the guise of the "war on (natural) drugs"Yeah I agree legalisation is the way forward. Its a little unnatural don't you think to make nature illegal. Ifind it ironic that so many of the devout christians in the anti-drug organisations think that the omnipotent and omniscient God made so many mistakes when it came to 'creating' the plants of the world. Do they really feel that eradicating God's creations is a good idea?Decriminalisation of cannabis works fine in holland (don't believe your govt's hype), but only because the distribution is separated from that of alcohol, nicotine and other hard drugs. For example in britain, a de facto decriminalisation is in place due to widespread police discretion on small amounts of cannabis. This decriminalisation ironically channels more money into the pockets of the gangsters who smuggle and distribute drugs without adding a penny to the government in tax. Legalisation would separate marijuana distribution from the gangsters and the hard drugs and make vendors responsible for who they sell to, rather like the alcohol industry. The money spent on pot could be taxed instead of going to the gangsters and being spent on baseball bats and fast cars.keep it cleanboyner http://www.boyner.co.uk/hemp/ [ Post Comment ] Comment #7 posted by Paul on May 29, 2000 at 12:40:38 PT: read up Some of you sound mentally challenged. Please don't post comment if your not intelligent. You give the rest of us a bad name. The typos and grammar on some of these are terrible. Maybe you should cut down. Anyway, I digress. I agree this will obviously have adverse enviromental effects. death becomes you [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by will on March 16, 2000 at 09:43:50 PT weed weed is good for some people so they should make it leagle so make it leagle [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by willy on March 16, 2000 at 09:40:30 PT marijuana marijuana should be ligalized because it should and most of the people do it and if its not leagtal more and more people will be going to jail. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by ryan on February 24, 2000 at 11:06:36 PT: stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!! weed shold be allowed leagal in the u.s in every state because it doesnt do any bodily harm and 90 percent of the u.s citizens smoke it so why cant we all do it. sinceraly, ryan [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by FoM on December 11, 1998 at 10:21:37 PT Don't Mess with Mother Nature! If we mess with Mother Nature we will pay the price! We sure have in the past! We are at war with the invisible world of microbes and they want to win as much as we humans do! When you mess with the ecology you will cause chaos! Each plant and animal was put on this earth for a reason, I believe and we don't have the right to eliminate what God gave us! We better get off our high horses and stop playing God before it's too late! [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by UaN on December 11, 1998 at 09:57:11 PT Have they lost their minds!!!!! My mother always told me, "If you play with fire, sooner or later you will be burned." I hope that the ones who approved this stupid move are the ONLY ones to get burned, but you can bet that it won't be that way. We all have to suffer because of their (governments) refusal to face facts and make rational, logical, adult decisions..Is this what they think is best for the people? I personally think that this killer fungus will turn around and kill very valuable crops and 50 years from now in the news they will be talking about how stupid our government was at this point in time...In fact, it may evern end up killing their favorite crop "corn" for their corn liquor...tobacco for their cigarettes, coffee beans, I hope they don't think that a killer fungus will stay here in the USA, it will travel...Our government will be the cause for starvation...sad S.O.B.'s........ [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by Ron Bennett (UserInfo) on December 11, 1998 at 00:19:13 PT: Genetics is Great...Especially for Killer Bees! The more one plays with genetics, the more risk there is of major problems...it's already happened several times.The accidental release of Killer Bees in 1956 should be a warning of what can happen when we mess with genetics without complete understanding.As far as this so-called killer fungus...what happens when cannabis and/or other crops becomes resistant? Or worse the fungus mutates in some way that is totally unexpected like Killer Bees did and kills other crops or even more scary what if the fungus is harmful to people who are exposed...and lastly, what if the fungus turns on its creators and actually becomes helpful to the plants it was designed to kill such as cannabis...while I wouldn't mind that, it's probably something they've given little thought. 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