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Who benefits from hemp ban?

Dear Editor:

Much has been said and written
about ‘the efforts to save our
Clayoquot rain forest, and t
especially liked Paul Hundal's
letter of Sept. 15 about the good
behavior of the Peace Camp pro-
testers versus the hooliganism of
the loggers group.

But there may be another possi-
bility for saving our B.C. forests.

The Emperor Wears No
Clothes, by Jack Herer, reveals
that one acre of hemp can pro-
duce four times as much paper as
an acre of average pulp forest,
and it can do it in one growing
season!

Furthermore, hemp paper is
dioxin-free, as hydrogen peroxide
replaces the toxic chlorine bleach
used jn the wood-paper process.

This paper has a life span of
hundreds of years, compared with
only 25-80 years for wood paper,

ERCP rT SPAT ET

arbage
writing’
promotes
racism

Dear Editor:

In response to Doug Col-
lins’ editorial on Sept. 29, |
am disgusted.

By writing this he is using
the so-called ‘‘freedom of
speech” too far.

We should educate people
like Collins and inform them
that immigrants to Canada
bring skills that are needed.

Canadian government
doesn't just allow anybody to
reside in Canada.

Over and over again, Col-
lins, who seems to be very
racist, writes prejudiced edi-
torials.

The North Shore News
should be ashamed of allow-
ing him to write this filth.

* Write editorials that will
solve the problems our society
is dealing with today. By
writing like Doug one pro-
motes racism and violence.

1 say North Shore News
should get rid of Collins once
and Sor ever.

If you won't deal with his
garbage writing, the people

will rise up and act against

him. :

David Robertson

West Vancouver

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and it can be recycled seven times,
unlike wood paper's three times.

Hemp paper isn't new; it’s been
used for thousands of years, Ac-
cording to Herer, 75% to 90% of
the world’s paper manufactured
before 1883 was made from can-
nabis hemp, including the
Gutenberg Bible and the first two
drafts of the American Declara-
tion of Independence.

The part of the plant used for
paper is the hurd, the fragments
of dried stalk that remain after the
fibre strands are removed.

The fibre of hemp can also pro-
duce a cloth that is stronger,
softer, and warmer than cotton,
and can furthermore be grown
without the vast amounts of
pesticides used on cotton.

(According to Herer, the cotton
industry is responsible for 50% of
the pesticides used in agriculture
today.)

WV take a

Dear Editor:

How is it possible that one of
Canada’s most affluent
municipalities (West Vancouver)
can bungle up almost every major
development? .

Allow architects to create. a
penitentiary, and cal! it a library;
contractors to build a 100-foot
long retaining wall without ap-
proval; developers to construct
two massive highrises (‘Westroyal)
when 51% of the voters said no;
and allow disgraceful development
of the Caulfeild . Plateau with
housing packed. onto clearcut
mountain slopes producing the

By banning hemp, we are also,
according to Herer, banning a
valuable medicine for the treat-
ment of glaucoma, asthma,
epilepsy, tumors, and imany other
conditions.

This fast-growing and versatile
plant is also a source of biomass
that when converted to charcoal
and non-sulphur fuel oil, could
help break North America’s
dependence on foreign oil, and
considerably reduce the amount of
harmful emissions that plague our
atmosphere.

It's also a rich source of
cellulose for the manufacture of
plastic, building materials, and
more.

We have to ask ourselves who is
benefitting from the banning of
hemp, and why information like
this isn’t more widely known,
Victoria Hogan
North Vancouver

closer look

biggest the North
Shore.

What they most urgently require
is a qualified architectural planner
with powers to stop any further
rape of our last tree-covered
lands, and to take a closer look at
all public buildings before any
further disasters can occur like the
new library.

Let us have the Parks & Rec
department beautify the Taylor
Way/Clyde Avenue lands before
the planners approve any further
“Faulty Towers!”

Stan Ward
West Vancouver

eyesore on

Offence best form of defence?

Dear Editor:

in Paul St. Pierre’s article sup-
porting the abhorrent practice of
hunting, his accusation that people
who oppose hunting but still eat
meat are hypocrites is the tirade of
a desperate man in a morally in-
defensible position.

But offence is the best form of
defence — right, Paul?

Harvesting an animal raised for
food is not the same as killing a

defenceless wild animal for sport.

Hunters hunt for the thrill of
the kill.

{ can visualize St. Pierre now.
Breathless, flushed and trembling
with excitement as his quarry falls
from the sky.

Paul, was it as good for you as
it was for that poor bird?

J.L. LeBel
North Vancouver

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