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Date Posted: 06:03:41 05/27/05 Fri
Author: cranston36
Subject: Schapelle Corby

The fallout and injustice of laws against marijuana have come home to roost in the case of Schapelle Corby.
The ridiculous Indonesian law gave 20 years to the young woman for being the victim of a drug trafficking operation.
In Alabama in the United States Schapelle Corby would not only have gotten the same sentence she received in Indonesia but she would also have gotten if she were carrying a handbag or a shirt made of hemp.
Marijuana has been attacked for decades as a result of intense lobbying by the United States and now the Australian cotton industry.
Hemp is similar to marijuana. The fibers from hemp produce a superior fabric to cotton both in insulation value, ability to carry color and durability.
To demonize hemp marijuana has been heaped up with social ills that it never caused.
As a result ridiculous laws are in place in the United States that put men and women in jail for smuggling drugs when they are moving hemp seed or hemp products without a license.
Australia’s cotton industry is controlled by American interests and much of the cotton is exported to Indonesia for their cheap labor textile industry. The laws have spread.
The crime of putting Schapelle Corby in jail is dwarfed by the crime of keeping reasonably pricedc clothing off the market. If you want Schapelle Corby released nearly immediately - put the blame where it belongs - on the cotton industry and watch as she is released with lightning speed.

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