ALLOW FARMERS TO GROW HEMP

A sane argument to caging responsible adults for using the relatively
safe, socially acceptable, God-given plant cannabis (marijuana)
doesn't exist and then Jeanne M. Ferguson eludes to hemp with out THC
("Cannabis plant has many uses," Jan. 29).

A head-shaking realization concerning hemp farming is that communist
Chinese farmers are allowed to grow hemp but free American farmers may
not. Ironically, America's greatest debt to a foreign country is with
China. It's time to re-introduce hemp as a component of American
agriculture because hemp prohibition is anti-American.

Stan White

Dillon, Colo.