What if MJ wasn't illegal? [View All]

What if MJ wasn't illegal? Some speculation:
Well 1) Farmers across the country would be able to grow it and sell the oil from the seeds for use as biodiesel in tractor trailors, school buses, and any type of vehicle that uses diesel all across this great land. Just like Rudolf Diesel visualized his engine would be used.
2) Electrical generation facilities could also use the oil, or the alcohol from the plant's celulose to fuel electric generators to supply electricity from coast to coast.
3) Home owners and anyone else could also use the oil just like kerosene is used to heat homes and buildings!
4) We could greatly reduce our destructive dependence on foreign oil supplies.
5) We could use the fiber in the plants to make paper. Eliminating the need to cut down trees which produce oxygen, and as the MJ fields were also producing oxygen, therefore possibly reducing or stopping the greenhouse effect.
6) We could once again use the fiber to produce textiles at home. I read that the first pair of Levi's were made from hemp. Therefore creating jobs for both farmers and the workers in these fields.
7) Hemp seeds are very nutritional. More so than soybeans, and other foods!
8) MJ is the only known treatment for glaucoma! That really works anyway.
Studies show that smoking it has no relation to increasing the rate of lung cancer.
With scientists free to study it more, what other benefits could there be?

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